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| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Awre | University of Hull | Head of Information Management | Chris has worked with Fedora for over 10 years, and has experienced its evolution over this time, working with colleagues at Hull to inform its development and engaging with the community through Fedora Commons and subsequently DuraSpace to promote Fedora, particularly within the UK. Chris co-chairs the Fedora UK & Ireland user group (in existence since 2006) with Richard Green, linking up with wider European Fedora users wherever possible. As a long-standing Hydra adopter, Chris is keen to support the long-term sustainability of Fedora and its ability to serve different frameworks' needs such as Hydra's. The development of Fedora 4 has given all Fedora usage a new lease of life and promises much in the coming years. It will be important in the near-term to ensure that moves to Fedora 4 are managed in a way that brings current users on board as well as attract new ones. |
| Terry Reese | The Ohio State University | Head of Digital Initiatives | Terry Reese is the Head of Digital Initiatives at The Ohio State University Libraries with responsibility for the planning and development of digital libraries architecture and infrastructure. He has extensive experience with a variety of repository systems, with research interests grounded in metadata and linked data issues. The Ohio State University Libraries has begun utilizing Fedora 4 as part of its core management and preservation system for digital content as a key piece of our new digital infrastructure, and back end to our new image management system in the libraries. |
| Tim Shearer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Head, Software Development | UNC Libraries have been using Fedora as the core technology in the Carolina Digital Library. We have been an engaged community member and contributed significant developer time to Fedora 4, offering leadership around access controls among other contributions. Tim Shearer manages the repository team, three developers and the repository librarian |
| Zheng (John) Wang | University of Notre Dame | Associate University Librarian, Digital Access, Resources and Information Technology | Fedora is a core infrastructure to support digital scholarship and the Notre Dame’s institutional repository, CurateND. Hesburgh Libraries are is also an active member of the Hydra community. John brought a programmatic methodology that is rooted in solving problems and addressing long-term sustainability. His leadership resulted in wider campus adoption of digital library solutions based on Hydra and Fedora and transformed the Libraries software development processes. His past experience with both public and private research institutions (UCLA and Emory) prepared him with knowledge in directing technology activities in research libraries and a keen sense of aligning technology development with the mission of the academy. If elected, he will help focus on community collaboration, ease user adoption, and support innovation and sustainability. |