Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content

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Kevin De Vorsey

National Library of New Zealand

Kevin De Vorsey is the NDHA Digital Preservation Analyst at the National Library of New Zealand. He previously worked in Preservation Programs at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and as a Systems Analyst at the American Museum of Natural History.

Alison Heatherington

The National Archives

Alison Heatherington is Services Manager for Digital Preservation at The National Archives (TNA). She has worked at TNA for 4 years, and has been involved in the field of digital preservation for almost 10 years. Her first role was working at the National Digital Archive of Datasets, preserving government datasets on behalf of TNA, and she has also spent several years with the national archives of New Zealand. Alison is a graduate of University College London and the University of London Computer Centre. In her current role Alison is responsible for the technical aspects of transferring digital data to the archives from government departments, and for preservation of the data within TNA’s digital repository. She is also responsible for PRONOM, which is a technical registry providing information about file formats to users involved in digital preservation activities, and the wider public, via the internet.

Matt Holden

INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)

Matt Holden studied for a bachelor's degree in Physics at Imperial College, London before taking a master's degree in Telecommunications at University College London (UCL). This lead to an Operations IT role working at Nortel Networks UK in a group developing solutions for the mobile phone GSM-HLR network. As well as managing the team's IT R&D lab, he occasionally worked on US customer sites such as T-mobile and AWS in Seattle. Late in 2006, Matt became Data Centre Manager at CMC Markets UK plc in London, working on the IT data centre strategy for the company. This culminated in a multi-million pound construction project to create a new data centre in East London. In mid 2008, Matt moved to France with his wife and took a break for 6 months to learn French after which, in early 2009, he joined INA with the mission of running IT Operations for the web archiving (DLWeb) team.

Gildas Illien

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Gildas has been implementing and managing Web archiving at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) since 2005. He also serves as Technical Officer and Treasurer of the IIPC consortium since 2007.

Gina Jones

Library of Congress

Gina Jones has been engaged in web archiving since 2002, when she was hired on as the first permanent staff member on the LC MINERVA pilot project team that was developed to study what kinds of skills were critical in developing the capability to select, capture, make available and preserve web objects. Thrown into the middle of the Election 2002 Web archive project, with no job description, she has tried to make sense of this activity. Since that time, the Library has collected over 105 terabytes of data and has developed an infrastructure to support Web archiving activities.

Brewster Kahle

Internet Archive

Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995. He received the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information and the IP3 Award from Public Knowledge in 2004.

John Kunze

California Digital Library

John Kunze is a preservation technologist for the California Digital Library and has a background in computer science and mathematics. His current work focuses on archiving websites, creating long-term durable information object references using ARK identifiers and the N2T resolver, and promoting lightweight "Kernel" metadata. He contributed heavily to the standardization of URLs, Dublin Core metadata, and the Z39.50 search and retrieval protocol. In an earlier life he created UC Berkeley's first campus-wide information system, which was an early rival and client of the World Wide Web. Before that he was a BSD Unix hacker whose work survives in today's Linux and Apple systems.

Mark Middleton

Hanzo Archives Limited

Mark Middleton is a co-founder and CEO of Hanzo Archives Limited. Hanzo provide commercial web archiving products and services, particularly to companies whose e-discovery and/or compliance requirements encompass their web content. Mark has been involved in IIPC in general for many years and is most recently focussing on development of WARC Tools and related work on WARC usage. The WARC standard is at the core of Hanzo’s web archiving products; WARC files not only provide the means to store and preserve web content for customers, but also related metadata and forensic information required to enhance their legal value.

Clément Oury

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Clément Oury is a library curator with PhD background in early modern history. He was appointed at BnF in 2006 to organise the management and long-term preservation of Web archives within the library institutional repository. He has been actively involved in the WARC standardization process and related work on WARC usage within the IIPC Preservation Working Group.

David Pearson

National Library of Australia

David Pearson is currently Acting Director of Web Archiving and Digital Preservation at the National Library of Australia (NLA). He has been involved in the development of a number of digital projects including the Mediapedia, Prometheus v1.0 and Configulator. During 2007, he was the NLA project manager working with APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories), a partnership between the NLA and a number of universities. This collaboration produced two projects: the Australian METS Profile development project and the AONS II (Automatic Obsolescence Notification System, version II) project. Before joining the Library, David designed, built and subsequently became the Repository Manager for the National Archives of Australia's Digital Repository. He also supervised various data recovery projects involved many hundreds of obsolete media carriers. David's academic background is in the field of archaeology.

Maureen Pennock

The British Library

Maureen has worked on several digital preservation projects since obtaining her Masters degree in 2001, including the Dutch Digital Preservation Testbed, the EU-funded ERPAnet project, and the UK Digital Curation Centre. In 2008 she joined the British Library’s digital preservation team as preservation project manager for the UK Web Archive. She is an active member of the IIPC’s digital preservation working group and leads the workpackage to develop preservation workflows in web archives. She has spoken and published widely on numerous digital preservation and archiving topics, including preservation of email messages, authenticity & significant properties, digital curation, and life cycle management.

Marcel Ras

National Library of The Netherlands (KB)

Marcel Ras is Head of the e-Depot Department of the national library of The Netherlands (KB). He received his M.A. degree from Nijmegen University in the fields of Ancient History and Archaeology in 1992. After some of years of Archaeological field survey in different countries, he joined the Post-Graduate training on Historical Information processing at Leiden University as Head and teacher of the training school. From 1999 to 2005 he worked as a consultant for the Digital Heritage Association and was involved in many digitization- and standardisation projects in The Netherlands. As of 2005 Marcel works for the national library of the Netherlands, first as project manager Web Archiving, and since 2007 as manager of the e-Depot department. Marcel is still involved in training and teaching at Leiden University in the field of digitization and digital preservation.

Amanda Spencer

The National Archives

Amanda Spencer is Head of Web Continuity at The National Archives. She is managing a project aimed at solving the issue of broken of broken links across the central government web estate, which also involves comprehensive web archiving. She has a very keen interest in 20th Century History, having completed a doctoral thesis in 2006 on the Spanish Communist Party in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. She is a graduate of the University of Sheffield, and has worked previously in mainframe applications development in the financial services sector.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven

National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands

Jeffrey van der Hoeven started his work in the field of digital preservation during his graduation assignment on the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) at IBM Netherlands N.V. in 2003. In 2004 he obtained his Master degree in Computer Engineering at Delft University of Technology and started his career at the Digital Preservation Department of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Netherlands. He conducted research into emulation-based preservation and joined the emulation project in 2005. Since then he has been involved in various other projects as well like the European projects Planets and PARSE.insight. In 2009 he became one of the founders of the new European project KEEP.

Hilde van Wijngaarden

National Library of the Netherlands (KB)

Hilde van Wijngaarden is head of the Acquisitions & Processing Division of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). The division is responsible for acquisitions, cataloguing, metadatamanagement and digital archiving at the KB. The KB e-Depot, the long-term archive for Dutch digital publications, websites and international e-journals, is part of this division. Hilde studied history at the University of Amsterdam and wrote her Ph.D at the University of Groningen (2000). In 1999, she started working as an information consultant for an IT-company. Since 2002 she is working at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, first as Digital Preservation Officer, from 2005 until 2008 as head of the Digital Preservation Department and since February 2008 as head of the Acquisitions & Processing Division. Hilde has been involved in a number of international projects in the area of digital preservation, including the EU-project PLANETS, and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the IIPC.