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| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
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| Julie Allinson | University of York | Digital Library Manager | |
| Stefano Cossu | The Art Institute of Chicago | Director of Application Services Collections | I have served for the last year as a member of the Fedora Leaders and Steering groups representing the Museum community. I believe this has been a very positive experience for both me and the group and I would like to continue the effort to expand the user base of Fedora in the museum community. |
| Sandy Payette | Cornell University Library | Director of Land Grant and Research IT | As the original founder of the Fedora project and DuraSpace, I am pleased to see how the community has taken ownership of Fedora and has evolved it to address many key issues that the international community discovered together. The Fedora4 initiative is great in terms of positioning Fedora for the next generation of technological challenges for repositories such as high performance/scale and the integration of repositories with the world of open-linked data. The ability to manage research data has always been an interest of mine and it’s great to see how far the community has come with this in Fedora4 I'm also interested in working on how to get the Fedora 3 community motivated to migrate to the new Fedora. My new position at Cornell University Library presents a new context for me to re-engage with Fedora from the other side (i.e., community sponsor), but my deep history in the Fedora architecture and the open source community's Fedora aspirations will enable me to contribute from multiple perspectives. At Cornell we have multiple DuraSpace-related projects that are leveraging Fedora, DSpace, Hydra, and VIVO. I look forward to an opportunity to join “with a new “hat” - Cornell University Library. I am also interested in the discussions that are emerging around the integration of Fedora/VIVO. |
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