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Biographies

Sheila Anderson

Sheila Anderson is Director of the Centre for e-Research at King's College London. She is co-Director of the UK Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC).

Sheila has a successful record of project development and management, and has undertaken a number of preservation consultancies and projects.

In recent years, she has received project funding from the JISC, AHRC and the Leverhulme. She has extensive experience in data creation, data curation, preservation and research infrastructures which underpin the process and practice of research.

Matthew Barr

Matthew Barr joined the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow in December 2007, as a Systems Developer. His projects include Mapping Sculpture in Britain & Ireland, a British Academy project which aims to reveal the full context of the profession and practice of sculpture during the period 1851-1951, and the PLANETS Testbed. Prior to HATII, Matthew worked for Chivas Brothers Pernod Ricard as an Internet Solutions Analyst after graduating with an MSc in IT from the University of Glasgow in 2005.

Amir Bernstein

Amir Bernstein joined the Swiss Federal Archives in 2008 as a researcher responsible for the archiving of relational databases. He is project manager and product owner of SIARD. Amir is also a member of the Planets Preservation Action and Dissemination sub-projects. He began his career as an archivist at the Israeli Ministry of the Interior and subsequently a translator at the Middle East Media Research Institute in Berlin. Amir holds a bachelor degree in history and classical Studies from the Tel-Aviv University, a Master of Arts from Tel-Aviv in cooperation with the University of Munich, as well as a PhD. in modern History from the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Clive Billenness

Clive Billenness works for the British Library and is the Programme Manager for the Planets Project. A Certified Information Systems Auditor, he is also qualified in Project and Programme Management, and holds the UK Office of Government Commerce's accreditation as a Practitioner in the Management of Risk.

Clive is a member of the Office of Government Commerce�s Examination Board for Project, Programme and Risk Management qualifications and is also the Regional Chairman of the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy�s Computer Audit sub-group. He is a regular contributor to the CIPFA magazine "The Account".

Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown is Assistant Clerk of the Records at the Parliamentary Archives, where he is responsible for digital and analogue preservation, cataloguing and digitisation.

Adrian began his career as a field archaeologist, after studying Medieval Literature at the University of Durham. In 1994, he moved to the English Heritage Centre for Archaeology in Portsmouth, where he was responsible for managing its archaeological archives and other information resources. In this role, he developed and implemented a digital archiving programme to enable the long-term preservation and re-use of the CfA�s extensive and diverse digital collections. Adrian moved to the Digital Preservation Department of the UK National Archives in 2002, and was appointed Head of Digital Preservation in 2005, where he was responsible for the long-term preservation of born-digital public records created by the UK government and courts. He has lectured and published widely on all aspects of digital preservation.

Sara van Bussel

After graduating in Cultural Heritage studies in 2008, Sara van Bussel started as a full time researcher for Planets at KB-NL. Among other, she is involved in the development of the preservation action Tool Registry (Pronom), the preservation planning model, the gap analysis in tool provision, Testbed and other work packages of Planets.

Vittore Casarosa

Vittore Casarosa graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pisa. After a few years spent as a researcher at CNR (the Italian National Research Council), he has spent many years in the R&D laboratories of IBM in Italy, France and in the US, doing and managing research mostly in image processing and networking. Since 1996 he has been Research Associate at CNR, at the Institute for Information Science and Technology in Pisa (ISTI-CNR), where he was the Deputy Director of DELOS, the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and is presently associated with the activities of the Multimedia Laboratory in the field of Digital Libraries. Since 2008 he has collaborated with HATII at the University of Glasgow for training activities on the preservation of digital objects. Since 1996 he has held a teaching assignment at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he presently teaches a course on Technologies for e-Commerce. He also teaches courses on Digital Libraries at the Free University of Bolzano, at the University of Parma and at the University of Pisa.

Louise Fauduet

Louise Fauduet joined the Preservation and Conservation Department at the Bibliiothèque nationale de France in July 2008. As a preservation expert, she is in charge of digital preservation workflows and contributes to the development of SPAR, BnF's digital preservation repository. She is a graduate from the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques in Lyon.

Mark Guttenbrunner

Mark Guttenbrunner is PhD researcher at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Since 1996 he has worked as an employee and as an independent IT consultant for different companies and universities in Austria. Mark graduated the diploma study in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2007. His special interests are preservation planning, emulation, and the preservation of video games.

Hans Hofman

Hans Hofman is senior advisor on digital longevity at the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands. He is involved in several programmes in the area of e-government with respect to recordkeeping, metadata, digital preservation and open standards. He represents the Nationaal Archief in PLANETS research project (2006-2010, www.planets-project.eu) and he is since 2000 representing the Netherlands in ISO TC46/SC11 on Records Management, in which committee he is chairing the Working Group on RM metadata. He has acted as co-director of ERPANET (2001-2004, www.erpanet.org) and was co-investigator in InterPares project (1999-2006, www.interpares.org), and coordinated the participation in the Digital Preservation Europe coordination action (2006-2009, www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu), in which project he was responsible for the development of DRAMBORA. He has given numerous presentations and written many articles on topics like digital preservation, recordkeeping metadata and electronic records management.

William Kilbride

William is Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) . He joined the DPC from Glasgow Museums, where he initiated work on digital preservation and access to the city�s growing digital collections. Previously he was Assistant Director of the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York and a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow. He has contributed to workshops, guides and advice papers relating to digital preservation. He served on the steering committee for the UK Needs Assessment, is a tutor on the Digital Preservation Training Programme and is on the Board of the Alliance for Permanent Access. He holds a PhD in archaeology on the development of literacy in the Early Middle Ages.

Ross King

Ross King received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. After moving to Vienna in 1995, he migrated to the IT sector, and joined the Austrian Institute of Technology in 2002 to help found the Digital Memory Engineering group, which he presently leads. His research interests are primarily concerned with digital preservation and semantic multimedia information management. He has been active in a number of European projects, including TELplus, Planets, and EuropeanaConnect.

Hannes Kulovits

Hannes Kulovits is currently a PhD researcher at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He received his Master in Business Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2005. He is actively involved in several research projects in the field of Digital Preservation where his main focus lies in Preservation Planning and Recommender Systems.

Edith Michaeler

Edith is deputy sub-project lead at Planets Testbed and member at Planets Dissemination and Take up. Before joining the Department for Research and Development at the Austrian National Library (ONB), she worked (till 2008) as a press officer at the Austrian Parliament. �Edith studied History and Political Sciences in Vienna and Paris and holds a Masters degree in History (2004). She is also trained in journalism and PR (Diploma 2006). She used to work as a journalist and press officer in lobbying organisations in Vienna and Brussels.

Olivier Rouchon

Olivier Rouchon is currently head of the Digital Preservation Department at the CINES, a French national data centre for higher education and research. In addition to his management duties, he is actively involved in the French PIN (P�rennisation des Informations Num�riques) working group as a coordinator, and has published papers relating the long term preservation of digital objects. Prior to joining CINES, Olivier spent six years at Dell as a IT project manager.

Manfred Thaller

Manfred Thaller was born in 1950. PhD (Modern History) 1975, University of Graz, Austria. PostDoc Sociology, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1978. 1978 - 1997 research fellow / senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut for History, G�ttingen. Research on a general methodology of historical computer science. Since 1995 also professor of "Historical computer Science" at the University of Bergen, Norway. Visiting prof. Jerusalem (1987), London (1993), Firenze (1993). 1997 - 2000 founding director of the "Humanities Information Technology Research Programme" and the attached research centre of the University of Bergen, Norway. From 2000 onwards Prof. of "Historisch Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung" (Humanities Computer Science) at the University at Cologne, Germany. Has managed or participated to over 20 projects in Applied research in the Library area / Digitization of Cultural Heritage area.