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| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement | ||
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| Aaron Choate | University of Texas at Austin | Interim Assistant Director for Technology Innovation & Strategy | Director of Digital Strategies | I have been involved in digital library / archives development in various ways for over 15 years. I have worked across many aspects of our operations; from development, to service provision, project management, and team leadership, and now as a director concentrating on our library’s digital strategies. I am interested in working to ensure that Fedora continues to perform as a core for a wide array of digital asset systems, supporting a strong ecosystem of complimentary interfaces and services. | |
| Evviva Weinraub | Northwestern University | Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Digital Strategies | I’m the AUL for Digital Strategies at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. I have worked for the last 5 years I have led teams working on Fedora based digital asset management systems and my team at Northwestern has been doing so for over a decade. I am very interested in joining the Fedora Steering Group to continue the work I’ve done on the Leadership team, to stay tied directly to the future and growth of Fedora, and work to find ways to increase international adoption and contribution to the Fedora community. | ||
| Steve Marks | University of Toronto | Digital Preservation Librarian | I'm the Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries. We maintain a large Islandora instance which supports primarily digital scholarship projects, and we are in the process of setting up a Fedora 4 environment to test with Avalon and Hydra applications. As part of the Steering Committee, I would like to see Fedora develop to the point where it can truly function as core digital asset management infrastructure in a rich environment of applications. To this end, I would like to see Fedora continue to support the application stacks we know and love, while not being inextricably bound to the destiny of any one of them. | ||
| Tom Cramer | Stanford University | Assistant University Librarian & Director for Digital LIbrary Systems & Services | As a current and founding member of the Fedora Steering Group, I’m both pleased and proud of what the community has managed to accomplish with Fedora 4. We have pulled together to completely rewrite and release a new version of Fedora, while maintaining the strengths of the architecture and community. The community, under DuraSpace’s stewardship, has never been stronger, and with Fedora 4’s capabilities we seem poised to be the “right system at the right time” for the next generation of digital asset management systems. But we have more work to do. To stay vibrant and sustainable, I believe Fedora must go beyond its traditional audience of libraries and research organizations. We need to seek more engagement and contributions outside of North America—especially (but not only) Europe and Australiasia. We need to reaffirm and rearticulate Fedora’s core value proposition to adopters and developers. We need to redefine Fedora’s position as a key piece of infrastructure in the new ecosystem (especially but not only in relation to Hydra and Islandora, and their complementary development trajectories). We need to aggressively plan, and demonstrate, Fedora’s location in the research data landscape, especially considering systems like VIVO and funder mandates. I believe I have a lot to add to these efforts. As an AUL and IT director at Stanford, I appreciate an institution’s needs for a robust, production system. As a Hydra community leader, and the Stanford director for the Hydra-in-a-Box project, I’m keen to build a lean, performant and highly functional code base Fedora-Hydra combo stack. As a member of the DuraSpace Board of Directors, I have a view on and commitment to the success of both Fedora and DuraSpace. As a member of the steering groups for Open Repositories, PASIG and the IIPC (for web archiving), I have a broad and deep view on both the repository and preservation communities. As a member of the Fedora Steering Group, I would remain committed and passionate to advancing Fedora’s position, and seizing new opportunities in the broader landscape. Thanks! - Tom |