Leads on New Fedora Community Members, and DuraCloud Possibilities
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February, 2010
- Steve Green, British Library
- Sheila Anderson, Kings College London
- John Howard, University College Dublin
- Steven Keegan, Trinity College Dublin
- Howard Goldstein,
- Greg Colati, U. of Denver Library
- Jessica Colati, Colorado Alliance
January, 2010
- Jon Dunn, Indiana University
- Jim Harrison, University of Virginia
- Jeff Gima, American International Consortium of Academic Libraries
- Jim is faculty in the medical school in the clinical information program. I have been working with him for about 3 years now, along with Martha Sites, Tim Sigmon and James Hilton, to help him use Fedora. He has put in a large NIH grant, "Life Sciences Grid" which is based on using Fedora. Note that he is doing this jointly with Andrew Grimshaw who is in computer sciences at UVA. Andrew has developed a new grid system (Genesis II) that will be part of it. I have encouraged them to look at an Akubra plugin for it. Note that I am listed as a consultant to the grant, so if they get it, I will be doing that on the side.
- Jeff Gima, American International Consortium of Academic Libraries Jeff is the director of this group and is organizing the conference in Budapest that Susan Perry (below) hooked me up with. I have had some conversations with him about our products and their program. They are pretty small scale in most of their places but some interesting possiblilties exist for repository work and cloud services down the road. I will be doing a workshop about helping people to think about repositories conceptually, and talk a bit about Fedora, plus giving a keynote that further develops my "Scholarly Communication is a Web in the Clouds" theme.
- Michael Witt, Purdue University Michael Witt is part of the Data Curation solution community, such as it is. He also is working with some grad students to do yet another comparison of DSpace, Eprints and Fedora. I have given him pretty extensive comments and connected him up with Val.
- Dale Peters Dale has left DRIVER and is now the Head of Academic Computing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. That is the place where she used to be and where the DISA project is set. I visited there last year. She wrote to me that she is very interested in continuing to promote Fedora and our other projects. If we need a DuraSpace point person in South Aftrica, she is definitely it.Michael Witt, Purdue University
December, 2009
- Bryan Beacher, ICPSR Bryan talked to me about participating in DuraCloud, which he has since applied to do. ICPSR is using Fedora. They are also looking for a new director, Myron Guttman left to go to NSF. Myron is a big fan of Fedora so we should keep him in mind.
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