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Sylvie Lafortune Sylvie Lafortune is an Associate Librarian at Laurentian University of Sudbury, one of the two bilingual universities in Canada. Her main area of responsibility is Government Information, Data and GIS. She is currently Chair of the Department of Library and Archives at her institution. For the past few years, she has enjoyed being the faculty advisor for the World University Service of Canada Local Committee at Laurentian. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "gis", "data management", "e-government", "archives", "infrastructure", "knowledge management", "software", "repositories". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ...	laurentian university sudbury ontario canada	higher education domain library domain
Sarah Houghton Sarah Houghton has worked in libraries for the last 15 years, as a librarian for 10. She has worked with state and national library advocacy organisations including Infopeople, California Library Association, American Library Association, and the Library and Information Technology Association – including a three-year stint as a member of LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee and working on the OITP eBooks Taskforce. She was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter in 2009. She speaks internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "rss", "data", "social networks", "software", "cataloguing", "archives", "instant messaging", "blog", "podcast", "video". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ...	san jose public library san jose ca united states	library domain public sector domain
Peter Williams Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "archives", "research", "repositories", "british library", "software", "digital archive", "blog", "university college london", "ict", "privacy". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ...	university college london london greater london england	computing domain higher education domain
Ugne Lipeikaite Ugne Lipeikaite is working with EIFL on research study of perceptions of public libraries in Africa as well as follow-up activities to raise awareness of the potential of public libraries targeted at decision makers. She is also leading impact planning and assessment activities of a national wide library public access computing project in Lithuania, funded by Global Libraries Programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her field of experience includes ICT diffusion and adoption projects, eInclusion initiatives and development of impact assessment frameworks for ICT- related projects and programmes. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "eifl", "data", "ict", "tns rms", "software", "cataloguing", "europeana", "e-government", "infrastructure". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ...	eifl rome italy	research domain
Ute Rusnak Ute Rusnak is Head of Public Research and Education at FIZ Karlsruhe. She holds a university degree in biology and has an additional qualification as a software engineer. For many years her focus has been on the design and development of reference databases and academic information portals. Currently, she provides project support for information infrastructure developments. She is interested in the ongoing changes in academic data management and its development towards the coverage of the entire research data lifecycle. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "data", "infrastructure", "data management", "software", "repositories", "fiz karlsruhe", "open source", "e-research", "metadata". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ...	fiz karlsruhe karlsruhe germany	research domain
Danielle Cooley Danielle Gobert Cooley is an independent User Experience consultant with over 12 years of experience in a multitude of user research and usability analysis methods. She has applied her skills to a wide variety of applications, including hardware, Windows, web, telephone, and mobile. Her successful designs have been implemented at such large and small, public and private companies as Pfizer, Sargento Foods, Navy Federal Credit Union, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and MasterCard Worldwide. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "usability", "css", "google", "html5", "data", "html", "responsive design", "mobile", "browser". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	st louis mo united states	computing domain consultancy domain
Dave Pattern Dave Pattern is the Library Systems Manager at the University of Huddersfield, with responsibility for the continuing development of the Web services and facilities provided by the library. A Web developer with over 15 years of experience, he previously worked for a major UK library book supplier before joining Huddersfield as the lead developer on the JISC-funded INHALE and INFORMS projects. In 2004 he was appointed to his current role and has been responsible for incorporating a variety of 2.0 enhancements into the OPAC and developing in-house services, as well as setting up weblogs and wikis for the library. He is a committed '2.0' advocate and was thrilled to be named as one of the '2009 Movers and Shakers' by the Library Journal and is the current Information World Review "Information Professional of the Year". Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "university of huddersfield", "jisc", "blog", "research", "open data", "software", "higher education", "licence", "identifier". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	university of huddersfield huddersfield west yorkshire england	computing domain higher education domain
John Paschoud John Paschoud is a consultant information engineer currently working mainly on projects to do with personal identity management and access to online resources. He is professionally qualified in information systems engineering and project management and has spent over 30 years managing a large number of innovation and applied research projects, and the teams delivering them, in academic institutions and other public sector and commercial organisations. He also dabbles in Politics and some sorts of heavier engineering that can sometimes be painful. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "database", "jisc", "metadata", "digital library", "url", "software", "shibboleth", "infrastructure", "data", "london school of economics". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	london school of economics london greater london england	computing domain consultancy domain higher education domain
Mansur Darlington Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "oer", "search technology", "software", "research", "data", "wordpress", "metadata", "massachusetts institute of technology", "blog", "licence". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	university of bath bath somerset england	higher education domain research domain
Matthew Brack Matthew Brack is a student on the MA in Digital Asset Management at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and works as Digitisation Support Officer at the Wellcome Library. His current research focuses on bridging the gap between digital content and the user, and innovation within digital collections. He blogs on these topics at: http://mattbrack.blogspot.com/ Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "archives", "blog", "search technology", "data", "library of congress", "memento", "digital preservation coalition", "internet archive", "preservation", "digital preservation". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	kings college london london greater london england	higher education domain
Paul Gorman Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "second life", "avatar", "wiki", "research", "web 2.0", "blog", "facebook", "linden lab", "city of glasgow college", "twitter". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	city of glasgow college glasgow glasgow scotland	library domain
Ray Harper Ray Harper works as Planning Assistant at the University of Sheffield in Planning and Governance Services. In this role, he is involved in the submission of statutory returns to funding bodies, internal reporting of student numbers, and the provision of management information across the University. In particular he supports the Faculty of Medicine with business planning, competitor analysis and target setting. His previous jobs include a graduate traineeship at Emmanuel College library (Cambridge University), a knowledge management role in a research consultancy (CUREE) and a role in taxonomy development in the NHS. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "dissemination", "british library", "lis research coalition", "data", "indiana university", "edinburgh napier university", "university of sheffield", "cilip", "bbc". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	university of sheffield sheffield yorkshire and the humber england	higher education domain library domain
Simon Waddington Simon Waddington is Research Fellow at the Centre for e-Research, King’s College London. His manages a team of software developers working on projects in the areas of data management and preservation, and carries out research in information science and applied computing. He is currently PI of the JISC funded UKRISS project. Simon has a long background in research and development, including holding positions at Motorola and BBC. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "repositories", "sakai", "fedora commons", "sharepoint", "software", "metadata", "research", "hydra", "university of hull", "archives". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	kings college london london greater london england	higher education domain research domain
David Walton Professor David Walton was Head of the Environment and Information Division of the British Antarctic Survey before retiring. He is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Antarctic Science and has contributed to, compiled and edited six books on research in Antarctica and elsewhere. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "data set", "doi", "metadata", "data citation", "dublin core", "repositories", "archives", "claddier", "datacite". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	british antarctic survey cambridge cambridgeshire england	research domain
Roy Lowry Roy Lowry has an extensive background in the technical aspects of data management and has been involved in many national and international projects including the NERC DataGrid (part of the e-Science Programme) SeaDataNet, and Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI). Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "data set", "doi", "metadata", "data citation", "dublin core", "repositories", "archives", "claddier", "datacite". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	british oceanographic data centre liverpool merseyside england	research domain
Alyson Tyler Alyson Tyler is the Libraries Development Adviser for CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, a division of the Welsh Government. Her role includes providing advice and support to librarians and libraries in Wales, overseeing the library grant programme, Ministerial work and programme manager for the library strategy, among other things. She has an interest in all things library. And yoga. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "blog", "twitter", "facebook", "rss", "web 2.0", "youtube", "welsh government", "social networks", "further education", "ukoln". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2011 Read more ...	cymal aberystwyth ceredigion wales	archives museums domain library domain public sector domain
Amy Gibbons Amy Gibbons is a doctoral researcher at Lancaster University, where she is studying how information is classified and legitimated under the Freedom of Information Act. In 2009 she spent three months on internship in The National Archives' FoI team, where she researched 'privileged access arrangements' for academic researchers in government departments. She has presented at conferences held by The National Archives, the Research Information Network and the Surveillance Studies Network. Her wider research interests include data protection, information management and mechanisms of surveillance and privacy. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "foi", "foia", "data", "higher education", "jisc", "university college london", "research information network", "queens university belfast", "infrastructure". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of lancaster lancaster lancashire england	higher education domain research domain
Amy Hackney Blackwell Amy Hackney Blackwell received a BA in History from Duke University in North Carolina, an MA in History from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and is currently a PhD candidate in Plant and Environmental Science at Clemson University in South Carolina. Hackney Blackwell has written books and articles on legal, historical, literary, and scientific topics for professional, popular, and scholarly audiences. With Patrick McMillan she is conducting research on policies, practices, pedagogies, legal and diplomatic issues, and scientific applications of biological research in the context of public Botanical Gardens. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "urn", "data", "xml", "infrastructure", "tei", "research", "homer multitext", "html", "identifier", "digital library". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	clemson university clemson sc united states	higher education domain research domain
Bernard M. Scaife Bernard Scaife is Technical Services Librarian at the Institute of Education. His background is in library management systems and he is responsible for the cataloguing and acquisitions functions including the development of systems across the Library and Archives. Bernard is also involved in digitisation activities, migration of legacy metadata on the Web and in lowering the barriers to accessing high-quality education resources. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "metadata", "eprints", "repositories", "cataloguing", "archives", "licence", "preservation", "url", "data", "ulcc". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of london london greater london england	higher education domain
Bryony Ramsden Bryony Ramsden is Assistant Librarian in the Human and Health Sciences subject team at the University of Huddersfield. Bryony has worked at the University Library for almost 10 years in various guises, including as a research assistant on an internally funded library project investigating learning space use, and is currently working on a PhD based on the results of the data. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "university of huddersfield", "jisc", "blog", "research", "open data", "software", "higher education", "licence", "identifier". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of huddersfield huddersfield west yorkshire england	higher education domain research domain
Carmen O'Dell Carmen O'Dell is the Faculty Librarian for Science at the University of Sheffield. She is interested in developing close partnerships with departments to ensure resources and services closely match the needs of students and researchers. Before coming to Sheffield Carmen worked in the CERN Library, Geneva. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "dcc", "data management", "licence", "jisc", "curation", "ukoln", "university of sheffield", "yodl". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of sheffield sheffield yorkshire and the humber england	higher education domain
Christopher Blackwell Christopher Blackwell received a BA in Classics from Marlboro College in Vermont, and a PhD in Classics from Duke University in North Carolina. He is currently Professor of Classics at Furman University in South Carolina. He is the author of books and articles on Alexander the Great, Athenian Democracy, and topics in digital humanities. With Neel Smith, Blackwell is a Project Architect of the Homer Multitext Project of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "urn", "data", "xml", "infrastructure", "tei", "research", "homer multitext", "html", "identifier", "digital library". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	furman university greenville sc united states	higher education domain
Constance Rinaldo Constance Rinaldo has been the Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University since 1999 and in addition to her MLS, has an MS in Zoology. Currently she also serves as the Executive Secretary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Prior to her work at Harvard, she was the Head of Collections at the Biomedical Libraries at Dartmouth College. Connie is passionate about natural history and making library collections open and accessible. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "internet archive", "harvard university", "smithsonian institution", "digitisation", "metadata", "tagging", "wikipedia", "american museum of natural history", "data", "librarything". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	harvard university cambridge ma united states	higher education domain
Damian Steer Damian Steer is a Senior Technical Researcher at the University of Bristol with many years experience developing applications on the Web. He is a committer on Apache Jena, and has been involved with the JRuby Project for a number of years. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "mobile", "software", "university of bristol", "mymobilebristol", "ilrt", "jisc", "mobile campus assistant", "research", "java". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of bristol bristol greater bristol england	computing domain higher education domain research domain
Geraldine Jones Geraldine Jones is responsible for raising awareness of the possibilities offered by e-learning practices and tools for staff and students across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is particularly interested in digital literacies and the impact of the digital environment on flexible learning and teaching. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "blog", "twitter", "rss", "university of bath", "wordpress", "google", "microblogging", "web 2.0", "dissemination". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of bath bath somerset england	higher education domain
Jez Cope Jez Cope helps research students and staff in the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies to collaborate, communicate and do their research better using technology. His main responsibility is to develop and support iSusLab, the Centre's Virtual Research Environment. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "blog", "twitter", "rss", "university of bath", "wordpress", "google", "microblogging", "web 2.0", "dissemination". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of bath bath somerset england	computing domain higher education domain
John Azzolini John Azzolini has been working in private law firm libraries in New York City for over ten years. He began in technical services and cataloguing but later realised that the challenges of reference were too tempting to pass up. John is always interested in discovering new legal research content and methods as well as in the continuing possibilities of digital libraries. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "archives", "research", "web 2.0", "blog", "framework", "data", "knowledge management", "preservation", "cataloguing", "digitisation". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	clifford chance new york ny united states	legal domain library domain
John Lewis John Lewis is a senior customer services assistant at the University of Sheffield Library. He has been drawn to study the issues surrounding research data management whilst completing a Masters degree in Information Management. He will be involved in developing and providing research support services at the University library. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "dcc", "data management", "licence", "jisc", "curation", "ukoln", "university of sheffield", "yodl". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of sheffield sheffield yorkshire and the humber england	higher education domain library domain
Judith Warnement Judith Warnement has served as the Librarian of the Harvard University Herbaria's Botany Libraries since 1989 and is interested bibliographic description, conservation, and digitisation of botanical literature. She serves on the Institutional Council of the Biodiversity Heritage Library and is an active member of the Council on Botanical and Horticulture Libraries and an associate member of the European Botanical and Horticulture Libraries Group. Judy holds earned a Masters in Library and Information Science from Case Western Reserve University. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "internet archive", "harvard university", "smithsonian institution", "digitisation", "metadata", "tagging", "wikipedia", "american museum of natural history", "data", "librarything". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	harvard university cambridge ma united states	higher education domain
Julian Prior Julian Prior is e-Developments Officer in the Division for Lifelong Learning. He is also part of the University's central e-learning team and is currently completing his final year of an MSc. in Education, Technology and Society at the University of Bristol where his dissertation will focus on a collaborative design model for the creation of Open Educational Resources. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "elluminate", "video", "software", "university of bath", "licence", "higher education", "blackboard", "wikipedia", "e-learning", "open university". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2011 Read more ...	university of bath bath somerset england	higher education domain

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Sylvie Lafortune

Sylvie Lafortune is an Associate Librarian at Laurentian University of Sudbury, one of the two bilingual universities in Canada. Her main area of responsibility is Government Information, Data and GIS. She is currently Chair of the Department of Library and Archives at her institution. For the past few years, she has enjoyed being the faculty advisor for the World University Service of Canada Local Committee at Laurentian.

Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "gis", "data management", "e-government", "archives", "infrastructure", "knowledge management", "software", "repositories". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author.

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laurentian university

sudbury ontario

canada

Sarah Houghton

Sarah Houghton has worked in libraries for the last 15 years, as a librarian for 10. She has worked with state and national library advocacy organisations including Infopeople, California Library Association, American Library Association, and the Library and Information Technology Association – including a three-year stint as a member of LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee and working on the OITP eBooks Taskforce. She was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter in 2009. She speaks internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions.

Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "rss", "data", "social networks", "software", "cataloguing", "archives", "instant messaging", "blog", "podcast", "video". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author.

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san jose public library

san jose ca

united states

Peter Williams

Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "archives", "research", "repositories", "british library", "software", "digital archive", "blog", "university college london", "ict", "privacy". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author.

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