Panel Chair Biographies & Backgrounds

Technical Alignment Panel Chair

Michael Seadle holds a PhD from the University of Chicago (1977) and a MSI (Masters of Science in Information) from the University of Michigan (1997). He holds the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation professorship for Digital Libraries and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts I as well as the Director of the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

He has served as principal or co-principal investigator for projects funded by the Library of Congress, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society). He has had management positions in libraries or computing centers at Michigan State University, Cornell University, Eastern Michigan Universtiy, the American Dental Association, and the University of Chicago. He is editor of the peer-reviewed journal "Library Hi Tech" and is a member of the editorial board of other journals including: "Reference Services Review", "World Digital Libraries: An International Journal", and "Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis". He has written over 100 articles, chapters, and books on a wide range of subjects including copyright, computing management, digitization, and long term digital archiving.

Photo image courtesy Andrea McVittie.

Organizational Alignment Panel Chair

Inge Angevaare is coordinator of the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD). She led the National Digital Preservation Survey in 2009 and edited the ensuing report A Future for our Digital Memory. She is a prolific blogger on digital preservation issues, managing editor of LIBER Quarterly, the European Journal for Research Libraries, and co-editor of eData&Research, a Dutch publication to promote data sharing among Dutch humanities and social sciences scholars.

Standards Alignment Panel Chair

Mr Raivo Ruusalepp has been working with digital archives since 1995. He joined the Estonian Business Archives as a consultant on electronic records management and digital archive solutions in 2001. Since 2008 he is a part-time lecturer at the Institute of Information Studies at Tallinn University. His current research interests are in the areas of risk management and trust in digital archives. He was responsible for the development of repository audit and certification services in the FP6 funded DigitalPreservationEurope project. (www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu) and was the technical co-ordinator in the FP7 project Protage (www.protage.eu).

Legal Alignment Panel Chair

Adrienne Muir is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. Her research interests include preservation, especially digital preservation, legal and ethical issues and national information policy. Recent projects include management issues in digital legal deposit, digitisation in research libraries and archives and a feasibility study for a register for archived electronic journals. Adrienne led an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded study of copyright issues in digital preservation and was also part of an international study in this area, the findings of which formed the basis of a WIPO workshop.

Educational Alignment Panel Chair

Joy Davidson is Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK and is PI for the JISC-funded Integrating Data Management Planning (IDMP) Toolkit and Support project and co-PI for the JISC-RIN funded Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI). Joy is also involved in a number of international working groups currently investigating collaborative possibilities for progressing digital curation curriculum and professional development opportunities including the International Digital curation Education Action Group (IDEA) and the European MSc in Digital Curation working group.

Economic Alignment Panel Chair

Maurizio Lunghi holds a degree in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications and Telematics. Currently Scientific Director of the cultural and no-profit Foundation Rinascimento Digitale (FRD, Italy), he is responsible for strategies and action plan definition, R&D projects and international events. He has worked on all the phases of the life-cycle of digital objects, from digitisation and colour certification, at the publication on the Internet with accessibility and copyright, up to all the long-term preservation related issues. Furthermore the Foundation participates in important EC-funded projects and initiatives to bring forward the Digital Preservation development, e.g.: the Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (Network of Excellence – APARSEN);  the Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) and in former coordination position of ‘Digital Preservation in Europe’.