2020 Vision:
The Future of Scholarship and Publishing
Speakers
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Kate Wittenberg
Director of Electronic Publishing; Columbia University
Archived Presentation: Digital Scholarship and Publishing
Kate Wittenberg is the Director of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, and serves as the PI for Columbia University on the Core Integration Team of the National Science Digital Library. In addition to her work on NSDL, Wittenberg directs the digital publications for Columbia International Relations Online, Columbia Earthscape, the Gutenberg-e Online History Project, and Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching. She is particularly interested in collaborative organizational models for the development of digital resources and innovative business plans for sustaining electronic scholarly and educational publications.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Nancy Eaton
Dean of Libraries and Scholarly Communications; Pennsylvania State University
Sanford Thatcher
University Press Director; Pennsylvania State University
Archived Presentation: One Person's View on the Future of Scholarship and Publishing
Nancy L. Eaton is Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. Previous positions included Dean of Library Services at Iowa State University and Director of Libraries and Media Services at the University of Vermont. She has served on numerous professional boards, including the Online Computer Library Center, the Coalition for Networked Computing, the Library of Congress’ National Digital Strategy Advisory, the Digital Library Federation, and the Library and Information Technology Association. Recipient of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award in 1995, Eaton is a frequent speaker at professional meetings and publishes regularly in professional venues. She has served as principal investigator on five major grant-funded projects in the area of information technology.
Sanford G. Thatcher is serving as President of the Association of American University Presses for 2007/08. He has been Director of Penn State University Press since 1989. Previously he worked for twenty-two years at Princeton University Press as Manuscript Editor, Social Science Editor, Assistant Director, and Editor-in-Chief. He serves on the copyright committees of the AAUP and Association of American Publishers and on the board of directors of the Copyright Clearance Center. Thatcher’s writings on copyright and the business of publishing frequently appear in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Against the Grain, and Learned Publishing.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Juan R. I. Cole
Professor of History, President of the American Global Institute;
University of Michigan
Juan R. I. Cole is author of the popular blog Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion and is President of the Global Americana Institute. He is also Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the "jihadi" or "sacred-war" strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole speaks Arabic, English, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Michael Jensen
Director of Web Communications for the National Academies and
Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press
Archived Presentation: Scholarly Authority and Scholarly Publishing
Michael Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2002 Jensen was appointed Director of Web Communications for the National Academies. He remains Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press, which makes more than 3,600 books (more than 600,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free. This site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher's site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. In 2001, Jensen received the National Academies' "President's Award," its highest staff honor. Jensen, with the Academies, is also currently technical partner of the History Cooperative, which makes the works of the most prestigious journals in History available online to subscribing institutions. He is also the inventor of WordXS puzzles, and editor of the Sustainable Personal Agriculture and Energy collection.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
William G. Thomas, III
John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities,
Department of History, University of Nebraska
William Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has served as Director and co-founder of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia where he led research in the field of digital humanities scholarship. His digital research initiatives have included The Valley of the Shadow, Race and Place: African American Community in the Jim Crow South, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, and The Roots of Modern America. Thomas shared, with Anne Rubin and Edward Ayers, the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the Valley of the Shadow project, and the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association in recognition of the project as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Archived Presentation: Cloud Things [Cloud Computing]
Peter Brantley is currently director of strategic technology for academic information systems in the University of California’s Office of the President. He has 20 years’ experience in systems development and management, including academic computing services at UC Berkeley and academic information systems management and digital library development at UC San Francisco and New York University. He also served as director of technology for the California Digital Library. He has been active in the Digital Library Federation, participating in the Digital Library Federation Services Framework initiative and co-managing the Digital Library Federation Developers' Forum. An innovation leader, Brantley was most recently recognized for conceiving and organizing the Reading 2.0 Conference in March 2006. The conference focused on how to encourage standards and protocols to support the development of new products and services for using massive collections of digitized texts.