Panelist Biographies & Backgrounds

Additional bios are forthcoming and will be added as they become available. Not all panelists may have their bios represented on this page. Feel free to check back periodically.

Dwayne K. Buttler

Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., holds a faculty appointment as professor with University Libraries. Much of his work and research focuses on the complex relationship of copyright law and licensing to the activities at the core of the university and library’s mission of teaching, learning and scholarly communication.

Buttler works with individual faculty members, librarians and administrators to address copyright and scholarly communication issues at U of L and elsewhere. He also teaches mass communication law and intellectual property courses at U of L.

As a presenter at regional and national conferences, Buttler helps raise awareness of copyright law and advocates for the preservation of crucial user rights — including the fair use exemption — within U.S. copyright law. He has made presentations that address copyright, licensing and preservation activities at national conferences of the American Library Association and the Associations of Colleges and Research Libraries.

Sheila Corrall

Sheila Corrall is Professor of Librarianship & Information Management, Head of the Libraries & Information Society Research Group and Graduate Research Tutor at the University of Sheffield Information School, the first UK school to join the iSchools community. Her teaching activities and research interests include academic libraries, collection development, data management, information literacy, strategic planning and professional development. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship, a Masters in Business Administration, MSc in Information Systems and Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. Before moving to Sheffield, Sheila worked in public, special, national and academic libraries, including positions as director of library and information services at three universities.

Sheila has worked on many national committees in the information field. She was founding chair of the Information Services National Training Organisation (isNTO) and chaired the Management Board of MIMAS, a national data centre, from 2006-2010. She is currently a member of the Research Information Network Working Group on Information Handling and also serves on the editorial boards for Education for Information, Information Research and The New Review of Academic Librarianship. In 2002 she was elected as the first President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and in 2003 she was presented with the International Information Industries Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the information profession.

George Coulbourne

George Coulbourne, M.S., is the Executive Program Officer for the Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives/Chief Information Officer, and for the Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI), at the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C.  Among his responsibilities, Mr. Coulbourne leads development of the Library's nationwide Digital Preservation Education and Outreach initiative; a number of OSI national recruitment efforts, including for internships; and the Office's Continuity of Operations Plan and Emergency Preparedness Program.  He serves on the national research board of Gartner Inc. and on Library of Congress advisory boards on emergency preparedness, facilities, and records management.  Mr. Coulbourne holds a B.S. in biology and education from the University of Maryland; a B.S. in nursing and an M.S. in social gerontology from Ball State University; and an M.S. in executive administration from University of Maryland University College.

Neil Grindley

Neil is the Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme Manager at the JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee), an organization that funds and supports technology-related projects and services for the UK Higher and Further Education sector. JISC is influential within the UK as an innovative agent of change and maintains an international reputation for the quality and range of its funded programmes. Neil drives forward a portfolio of projects, partnerships and sundry initiatives that support UK universities and colleges to more effectively exploit their digital assets using information lifecycle management processes and approaches. He is currently also on the board of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Open Planets Foundation (OPF).

Previously, Neil was a Senior Project Officer for the AHRC-funded Methods Network which supported researchers in using advanced ICT methods. Prior to that he was the IT Manager (and the non-academic staff representative on the Governing Board) at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Neil has an MA in Computer Applications and the History of Art from Birkbeck College, London, and is currently the Deputy Chair of the Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) Group.

Martin Halbert

Dr. Martin Halbert is Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas, and a nationally recognized leader in digital libraries. He currently serves as President of the MetaArchive Cooperative, a growing international digital preservation alliance of cultural memory organizations that was one of the founding partners of the US National Digital Preservation Program. He has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary liberal arts from Emory University; his research examines the future of digital scholarship and research library services. He has served as principal investigator for grants and contracts totaling more than $6 M during the past six years, funding more than a dozen large scale collaborative projects among many educational institutions. Halbert has previously worked for Emory University, Rice University, UT Austin, and the IBM Corporation.

Christopher (Cal) Lee

Christopher (Cal) Lee is Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on archival administration; records management; digital curation; understanding information technology for managing digital collections; and the construction of policies and rules for digital repositories. He also teaches half-day and full-day professional workshops on the application of digital forensics methods and principles to digital acquisitions. He is one of the lead organizers and instructors for the DigCCurr Professional Institute, which is a week-long continuing education workshop on digital curation.

Cal's primary area of research is the long-term curation of digital collections. He is particularly interested in the professionalization of this work and the diffusion of existing tools and methods (e.g. digital forensics, web archiving, automated implementation of policies) into professional practice. Cal edited and provided several chapters to a forthcoming book entitled, I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era to be published by the Society of American Archivists.

Wilma Mossink

Wilma Mossink is the legal advisor of SURFfoundation/SURFdiensten. Her expertise is in copyright management in higher education and the legal aspects of making content and information (openly) available. Part of her work regards the legal aspects of open access. She also drafts and comments on licences for use of content and software.

Wilma advises the legal committee of the FOBID, Netherlands Library Forum. In this capacity, she represents the Netherlands in the Expert Group on Information Law of Eblida, the European organisation for libraries. She is Dutch representative in the Copyright and Legal Matters committee of IFLA (CLM) and is its information coordinator.

Wilma was a member of several (inter)national working groups among which the Zwolle Group and the NISO ONIX-PL Working Group. At the moment she is the chair of the Knowledge Exchange Licensing Working Group.

Wilma regularly gives presentations nationally and internationally about the position of libraries in the information society, the legal aspects of open access, institutional repositories and the changing relationships of authors, institutions of higher education, and publishers because of new technologies. She wrote several articles and book chapters about aforementioned topics.

Andreas Rauber

Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3).

In 1998 he received the ÖGAI Award of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI), and the Cor-Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in 2002. He has published numerous papers in refereed journals and international conferences and served as PC member and reviewer for several major journals, conferences and workshops. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI). He serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and was a member of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries as well as the MUSCLE Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning.

Adam Rusbridge

Adam Rusbridge is the UK LOCKSS Alliance Coordinator based at EDINA, a JISC funded National Data Centre at the University of Edinburgh.  He is involved in EDINA's broader activity to support continuing access to scholarly content, including the Piloting an eJournals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) and Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 (PECAN) projects.  Previously, Adam was based at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow where he contributed to the Digital Curation Centre and ERPANET.

Bohdana Stoklasova

Bohdana Stoklasová is the Director of Library Collections and Services at the National Library of the Czech Republic. She is responsible not only for everyday operation of the library but also for the coordination of various research activities, projects and programmes connected with her area of responsibility, including the National Uniform Information Gateway project and the digitisation and digital-preservation parts of the Czech National Digital Library project.

Aaron Trehub

Aaron Trehub is Assistant Dean for Technology and Technical Services at the Auburn University Libraries in Auburn, Alabama. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of library technology at Auburn, including the integrated library system and discovery tools, digital collections, and the Media and Digital Resource Laboratory (mDRL), a multimedia resource center for students and faculty. Aaron has served as project director on grants that led to the creation of AlabamaMosaic, a statewide digital repository, and the LOCKSS-based Alabama Digital Preservation Network. He came to Auburn from the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, where he held the rank of associate professor and managed two Web-based revenue-generating reference services. Aaron has degrees from McGill University, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is especially interested in digital collection building, digital preservation, and the use of digital resources in scholarship and teaching.

Bram van der Werf

Bram is executive director of the Open Planets Foundation (OPF). OPF has been established to provide practical solutions and expertise in digital preservation. Before this he was Technical Director at Europeana responsible for moving it from a project and prototype basis to a robust production quality service. Prior to his appointment at Europeana he was a management consultant expert/advisor on Software Development Best Practices for Open Source and Collaborative Technologies. He has previously held Director and Senior Management positions in the Software and Services Industry with companies such as Rational Software, Progress Software and IBM Application Management Services. Bram has many years experience in managing large scale projects and organizations on the edge of users, technology practitioners, and in implementing state of the art technologies.  Bram has an MSc Total Quality Management.

Matthew Woollard

Matthew Woollard is the Director of the UK Data Archive and the Economic and Social Data Service, he is also responsible for the development of the UK Data Archive's digital preservation policy and its implementation and maintenance framework. He oversaw the Archive's activities in the reaching registration to ISO 27001. Further details can be found at:  http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/about/staff