Issues and Answers in Digitization Workshop Series
CO-SPONSORED BY
CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and NSF
Workshop Speaker Bios
Paul Lloyd is the Education and Section 508 Service Area Manager at the USDA TARGET Center. Paul leads TARGET’s various education programs, including the TARGET Discovery Series online webinars and the On Demand Training program. As the Section 508 Service Area Manager, Paul provides guidance to agencies looking to ensure accessible and usable electronic information systems. In addition Paul tests websites, documents, and programs for Section 508 compliance. Paul has been working with TARGET since 2001, when he started as a communication specialist and during that time has obtained an MBA from the George Washington University.
Geoff Freed is a project director of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM), with responsibility for multimedia and Web-access projects. He is a leading expert on Web accessibility and accessible Web-based multimedia, and has developed methods and techniques which exploit industry standards and formats. Mr. Freed is a member of the W3C's Timed Text working group, which created the non-proprietary DFXP format for text display, as well as the ATSC's Mobile/Handheld working group and the SMPTE 23b captions working group. He also participates in a variety of W3C Web-accessibility groups.
Helen Chamberlain is a Program Director for the General Services Administration's (GSA) Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP), IT Accessibility and Workforce Division. She is the central point of contact for the Federal Government Section 508 program providing technical assistance with the implementation of the Section 508 Standard within the Federal Government.
Bruce Bailey is an IT Specialist at the U.S. Access Board. He has lead responsibility for the agency web site and with providing technical assistance on Section 508 as the policy relates to web sites and software. Bruce has been working for twenty years in the field of assistive technology, and the last ten of those years in the Federal government. Bruce also is an invited expert with the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and an ex officio member of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standards (NIMAS) Board.
Chris Coled is the Associate Director for Technical Services at the National Agricultural Library. He oversees the Cataloging, Acquisitions and Collection Development, and AGRICOLA Indexing operations. Mr. Cole is the co-chair of the CENDI Copyright Working Group and is a member of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council. He was a member of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control that issued their report, On the Record, in January 2007. He has been an adjunct instructor in cataloging at the University of Iowa Graduate Library School.
Carl Fleischhauer’s work experience includes film and video production at West Virginia University; ethnographic field research and publications at the American Folklife Center; and coordination of the American Memory pilot for online historical collections. Since 1998, he has participated in digital preservation efforts at the Library, including planning for the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and coordination of the Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Digitization Guidelines Working Group. His publications include folk-music field recordings, a videodisc about a Nevada cattle ranch, and books on the Depression-era FSA-OWI photographic project and bluegrass music.
Dawn has been a professional audio engineer since 1993, starting with the prestigious Telarc International in Cleveland, Ohio, before moving to Sony Music Studio in New York where she worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Isaac Stern, and Wynton Marsalis, among others. Dawn was recruited to work with Sony’s Super Audio CD North American project team in 2000. Working with the team, she has contributed to a long list of high profile recording and re-mastering projects.
She is nationally regarded as an audio production expert, and has worked extensively with the historic recordings from the Columbia label. She prepared, transferred, restored and digitized hundreds of original historic recordings from lacquer, metal parts and tape.
She has credits on over 500 CDs and multiple Grammy Award winning albums including Appalachian Journey and San Francisco Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 3. She is one of North America’s most experienced Super Audio CD production engineers and was responsible for testing, improvement proposals, tech support, demonstrating and using prototype and 1st generation digital media software and hardware to establish the new format. She oversaw the planning and monitoring of hundreds of recording projects throughout the country.
In 2009 she assumed the position of Audio Lab Supervisor at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. She is responsible for planning and monitoring compliance with preservation standards of the recorded sound preservation process.
Jimi Jones is Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Prior to working for the Library of Congress Jimi served as Project Coordinator for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library's Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program, an IMLS-funded project. He is a 2007 graduate of the University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School Of Library Science where he continues to serve as Adjunct Professor for LIS 590AVL: Audiovisual Materials in Libraries, Museums and Archives. Prior to his master's work, he worked as an audiovisual archivist at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library.
Since the Fall of 2006, Deborah has served as Librarian (Engineering) at the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Library of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which supports the Headquarters and other Washington, DC based support units of the Corps of Engineers. Deborah serves as the project manager for the USACE Cooperative Digital Library and is embedded part-time in the USACE Strategy and Integration Office. In addition to providing research support, she works to facilitate Communities of Practice and to develop knowledge management initiatives. Deborah joined the Army in the Fall of 2003, initially working for the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, the Army’s historical library and archives. Prior to working for the Army, Deborah held several cataloging and reference positions at public universities and private colleges.
Deborah is very actively involved in furthering the work of Military and Federal Libraries. She is a member of the Special Libraries Association, where she serves as Secretary of the Military Libraries Division and planning team Chair for the Division’s 2010 Military Libraries Workshop. She serves on the FLICC Preservation and Digitization Working Group, leading the Survey Committee which is conducting a census of federal libraries and asking questions about how they carry out their digitization activities. Deborah is also involved on several working groups of the Army Library Steering Committee.
Deborah received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, studying Chemistry and History. She holds an M.L.I.S. from Rosary College and an M.A. in History from the Pennsylvania State University. Her professional interests include taxonomies and metadata, knowledge management, and the development of leadership skills among information professionals. She is a strong believer in continuous learning and post-professional education for librarians
Bonnie Klein is a Scientific and Technical Information Policy Analyst at the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Ft. Belvoir, VA. Since arriving at DTIC in 1992, Ms. Klein has held a variety of positions in DTIC's User Services Directorate and Operations Directorate. Her areas of expertise are in security, legal and proprietary constraints on government information dissemination. Prior to DTIC, Ms. Klein worked 16 years overseas in South Korea and Germany as an Administrative Librarian with the U.S. Army Library Program. She holds both a B.A. in Russian Area Studies and a M.S. in Library Science from the University of Illinois and a M.S in Education/Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Ms. Klein chairs the CENDI Copyright Working Group which maintains a "Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright" for federal government information creators and users.
Hope O'Keefe has been Associate General Counsel of the Library of Congress since November 2006, working primarily on collections matters, including increasing digital access to the Library’s collections. She serves on the Library’s Web 2.0 Group, Digital Library Content Group, and Internet Operations Group. She participates in the General Services Administration’s (GSA) multiagency team working to negotiate federal template agreements with social media providers.
James Snyder is a digital media engineering, production & project management specialist. His extensive experience includes television, film, radio, internet technologies and covers the gamut from traditional analog to cutting edge digital data, audio and video technologies. His career in both commercial and non-commercial sectors spans over 30 years.
Mr. Snyder currently serves as the Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center located on the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. He is responsible for all the audio, video and film preservation and digitization technologies, including long-term planning, technology services to the United States Congress and Capitol Hill, as well as standards participation and interaction with media content producers.
He has worked for many of the top organizations in media, entertainment, engineering & communications including MCI, Verizon Business, Intelsat, PBS, Harris Corporation, the Advanced Television Test Center, Fox News, Communications Engineering Inc, Reuters and Discovery Communications. He has consulted on many types of projects for organizations including Sarnoff Corporation, Turner Engineering, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, News Corporation, FedNet and agencies of the Federal Government.
Mr. Snyder is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Motion Imaging Archivists (AMIA) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He is a member and serves as an officer & on standards committees of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), and as the President of the Association of Washington Executive Broadcast Engineers (WEBE). He currently serves as the frequency coordinator for the National Capital Area, Baltimore and the State of Maryland. He lives and works in central Virginia adjacent to the Washington, DC metro area.
Michael Stelmach has twenty-five years of information management experience, with a concentration on providing digital access to content originating from print. Formerly the Vice President of eBook Production at netLibrary, he is currently the Manager of Digital Conversion Services in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Michael has been active in the research and development of an automated approach to evaluating digital image performance.
