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I am Brad Westbrook, and I am a metadata librarian / digital archivist in the UC San Diego Libraries. Currently, I oversee object definition and packaging for our Digital Asset Management System (https://libraries.ucsd.edu/digital/^{Image Removed}), serve as lead analyst for the ArchivesSpace planning project, and provide metadata support to UCSD's curation initiative (http://rci.ucsd.edu/) and Chronopolis (http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/^{Image Removed}), a digital preservation framework.  In the recent past, I have been the project manager and lead analyst for the Archivists' Toolkit Project and the lead designer for the Union 
Catalog for Art Images, two Mellon-sponsored projects based at the UC San Diego Libraries.  Prior to that, back to 1993,  I served as the Manuscripts Librarian / University Archivist at UCSD.  Broadly, I am interested in tools and workflows for supporting digital library work, but especially those supporting asset description. 

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Brad Westbrook 
Metadata Librarian & Digital Archivist 
UC San Diego Libraries 

Tom Laudeman

I'm Tom Laudeman with the University of Virginia Library, and I'm the AIMS programmer. I have created Rubymatica, the SIP creation tool modeled closely on the SIP creation work done by the Archivematica 
team (with many thanks to them). Rubymatica is written in Ruby on Rails. It is loosely integrated with a donor survey tool (adapted from a package I wrote a couple of years ago) and with the Tufts TAPER Submission Agreement Builder Tool. The entire suite is web-based, and will soon be available for public testing on a UVA-hosted server. Rubymatica is slated be the SIP creation/ingest module of the upcoming Hypatia arrangement and description tool. 

My software career started in the mid-1980s with scientific data, desktop publishing, and a stint at Kesmai Corp in online games. Since around 1995 I have been building web applications where scripts and databases interact with end users via the web browser. Prior to joining the Library, I worked with UVA scientists on cutting edge genomics databases, all with web-based interfaces. Besides being a computer techie, I'm also a content creator. Google "vw new beetle tail light replacement". There are more than 1200 captioned images on my various laudeman.com web sites. The images and text are managed in a content management system (CMS) I wrote specifically for that purpose. 

I look forward to welcoming everyone to Charlottesville! 

Matthew Stephens

My name is Matthew Stephens, and I'm the Sustaining Digital Scholarship programmer at the University of Virginia Library.  I've been involved preservation and migration of digital assets, primarily electronic texts, but also websites and digital image collections. I've done a lot of work in metadata conversion and manipulation, as well as digital object repository management.  I'm interested in most aspects of digital preservation and curation, but these days forensics and provenance are foremost on my mind. 

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone, and Gretchen, we're all very excited about your joining us at UVA! 

Best, 

Matthew Stephens 
Sustaining Digital Scholarship Programmer 
Digital Curation Services 
521 Alderman Library 
University of Virginia 

I am Melissa Watterworth Batt, Curator of Literary Collections and interim Head, Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut.  I am responsible for policy development and planning with regard to our ingest operation.  We are in the middle of adapting our ingest workflow to Archivematica and securing staff resources to sustain its development. Currently I am refining our SIP agreement, exploring the TAPER builder tool, and recently tested the CERP email parser.   

In my work and interactions with researchers, I see great utility and potential for institutional-collaboration with regard to EAC and literary collections.  I am interested in the application of digital forensics, particularly the development of open source tools and the feasibility of forensic workflows at medium-sized institutions.  I'd like to discuss the ethical issues with regard to forensics and personal archives, as policy development and the handling of illicit/sensitive materials, under the administration of a public university, has its challenges.   

Looking forward to meeting you, 

Melissa 

Head, Archives & Special Collections 
Curator of Literary, Natural History, and Rare Books Collections  
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center 
University of Connecticut Libraries 

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/ 
http://doddcenter.wordpress.com/ 

Mark Matienzo

I'm Mark Matienzo, digital archivist at Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) at Yale University. The majority of my time is spent working on the AIMS project, where I'm the lead digital archivist (a quasi-official project management role). I have also recently been appointed as the functional lead for the development of Hypatia, the Hydra head for AIMS. I've worked at Yale since January 2010, and before that I was a programmer for the New York Public Library's Digital Experience Group and was assistant archivist for systems  at the American Institute of Physics. I'm active in SAA, and I hold or have held positions on the EAD Roundtable, the Technical Subcommittee on EAD,  the Description Section, the Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, and the Electronic Records Section.

My interests and efforts in the area of digital archives right now are mostly focused on developing workflows and tools for accessioning and processing electronic records. At Yale, we're hoping to develop a shared set of guidelines to be used by both MSSA and by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. We're hoping our work will scale to deal with large amounts of under-accessioned and under-described records in our units, particularly with records received on fugitive media. Whenever possible, we're trying to develop our workflows using open source software and open standards, so we've been looking at digital forensics formats like AFF and forensic software such as Sleuthkit and fiwalk. An early attempt to build an assessment prototype for imaged file systems was my tool Gumshoe <http://github.com/anarchivist/gumshoe>, which I demoed briefly during a presentation at this year's Code4lib conference. I'm also a bit of an archival description wonk, so I'm particularly interested in determining how descriptive standards such as DACS and EAD could be best adjusted and implemented to deal with born-digital records.

Mark A. Matienzo <mark.matienzo@yale.edu>
Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library

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