2020 Vision:
The Future of Scholarship and Publishing
Speakers
Peter Brantley
Juan R. I. Cole
Nancy Eaton
Michael Jensen
Sanford Thatcher
Kate Wittenberg
Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Peter Brantley is currently director of strateic 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, he 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.
Juan R. I. Cole
Professor of History, President of the American Global Institute;
University of Michigan
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Dr. 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 commands 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.
Nancy Eaton
Dean of Libraries and Scholarly Communications; Pennsylvania State University
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Nancy L. Eaton is Dean of University Libraries at The Pennsylvania State University, a position she has held since 1997. A reorganization which aligned the University Press with the University Libraries in December 2005 resulted in the Dean’s title being changed to Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. 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 Research Libraries Group, the Association of Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, and the Library and Information Technology Association. Ms. 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. She was the recipient of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award in 1995. She received her A.B. from Stanford University (1965) and her M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin (1968).
Michael Jensen
Director of Web Communications for the National Academies and
Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press
Michael Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2002 Michael 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.
Kate Wittenberg
Director of Electronic Publishing; Columbia University
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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, Dr. Wittenberg directs the digital publications 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.