RIRI2011 Instructor Bios
Bradley McLean
Experienced technology team builder, leader, architect, and manager with a strong inclination towards multi-vendor and open source solutions. Successful leadership of large scale consumer website development, knowledge indexing and retrieval development, construction of a data center, and ongoing IT services for 75 users. Interested in entrepreneurial opportunities that include a new technology component.
Chris Wilper
Chris is the technical lead for the Fedora repository project and coordinates community participation in the open source development process.
Mark Leggott
I am currently University Librarian at the University of Prince Edward Island, which is Canada's best small university. And it's on an island - how can you beat that? I am also the President and CEO of DiscoveryGarden, which is a private company providing a full slate of commercial services for the Islandora/Drupal/Fedora framework and the Founding Director of the Knowledge for All Project, whose goal is to create a public domain database of all scholarly literature.
Bess Sadler
Tom Cramer
Tom Cramer is the Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director of Digital Library Systems
and Services for the Stanford University Libraries. In this role, he oversees the technical
development and delivery of the full complement of Stanford’s digital library activities, including
the digitization, description, discovery, delivery, preservation and management of digital
resources that support teaching, learning and research.
Tom is one of the founders of the Hydra Project and an active contributor to Blacklight, open
source projects rooted in higher education that deal with digital asset management and discovery.
He currently serves as the director of PASIG, the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest
Group, and as a steering group member for Open Repositories.
Matt Zumwalt
Matt Zumwalt is the Founder and Director of MediaShelf, LLC. MediaShelf operates in the field of Digital Asset Managment, but we go much further than that. Matt is an internationally recognized expert on Fedora, a powerful, open source digital asset management system. He coordinates the "Fedora Create" developer community, and he has given public talks on the system in both the United States and Europe.
Dean Irvine
Dean Irvine is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the editor of Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay (1998), Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924-1961 (2003), and The Canadian Modernists Meet (2005). His edition of F.R. Scott's complete poems and translations is forthcoming in the Canadian Modern Poets: Texts and Contexts series (Canadian Poetry Press). He is the author of Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada (2008), and is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Variant Readings: Editing Canadian Literature. As general editor of the Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de littérature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press), a new series of critical editions with online apparatus, and director of the Editing Modernism in Canada project, he is engaged in a wide range of collaborative editorial projects in print and digital media.
Donald Moses
Donald Moses is the Collections and eResources Librarian at the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. His work at the library straddles the traditional and the digital and he manages many of the digitization projects at the Library. Much of that digitization work is transformed as it flows into Islandora – a digital asset management system that leverages Fedora Commons and Drupal. He works with the Islandora team to test and extend the code they are developing to meet an evolving set of needs, including those of Digital Humanists.
Kirsta Stapelfeldt
Kirsta Stapelfeldt, (MA, MLIS) is the Repository Manager at the University of Prince Edward Island and manager of UPEI's Islandora project. Through the Robertson Library's Virtual Research Environment Service (VRE service), librarians and developers at UPEI are supporting over 140 repository projects. UPEI's repositories and research environments are developed using the highly-flexible Islandora open-source software stack. Islandora empowers researchers to collaborate with off-site colleagues, store and manipulate data sets, and publish research findings, and is used to house UPEI's local digitization projects. Islandora and the VRE service were founded by University Librarian Mark Leggott, and have inspired innovation in funding and management, transforming the role of librarians and the library at UPEI. Kirsta is a graduate of Dalhousie's MLIS program, with a background in project management, online information literacy, knowledge translation, communication, and university teaching.
