DCMI Board of Trustees

Denise Bedford

Thesaurus Manager and Senior Information Officer
World Bank Group
(Washington DC, USA)

Since 1997, Ms. Bedford's duties at the World Bank Group have included management of the World Bank Group's MetaThesaurus and core metadata strategy, as well as membership in the Information Architecture Group. She has also acted as the Bank's lead for usability engineering.

Since 1997 Dr. Bedford has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Catholic University of America. In addition to her role as member of the Board of Trustees of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, she is a Senior Fellow of the Montague Institute.

Dr. Bedford's experience prior to joining the World Bank Group includes University of California Systemwide Administration, Stanford University Libraries, Intel Corporation, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Southern California.

Dr. Bedford received a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in Information Studies, an M.A. from University of Michigan in Russian History, an M.S. in Library Science from Western Michigan University, and a triple major B.A. in Russian Language, German Language, and Russian/East European History from University of Michigan.

Joseph Busch

Metadata Framework - Taxonomy Strategy
(San Francisco, California, USA)

Joseph A. Busch is knowledge management consultant, prior to which he was Director of Solutions Architecture at Interwoven, Inc. and the Immediate Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Mr. Busch was the Vice President for Information Product Development at Metacode prior to its acquisition by Interwoven in November 2000, where he focused on business strategy and market positioning of automated information management technology and methodology solutions.

Between 1988-98 he was Program Manager for standards and resources projects at the Getty Information Institute. Prior to joining the Getty, he was a Manager at Pricewaterhouse.

An authority in the field of information science, he has authored numerous articles on indexing, classification research, and information retrieval systems. In addition, he served on National Science Foundation Review Panels and Association for Computing Machinery program committees, advised the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and judged the National Information Infrastructure Awards.

Michael Crandall

Chair, Masters of Science in Information Management Program
The Information School, University of Washington
(Seattle, Washington, USA)

Michael Crandall is chair of a recently established program at the University of Washington Information School focused on the management of information in all types of organizations and settings. The program blends theory and practice in the areas of management, technology and information organization to meet the needs of those responsible for effective creation, delivery, and management of information for their users.

Prior to joining the University of Washington, Michael spent four years as Technology Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Libraries and Public Access to Information Program. This effort deployed over 40,000 public access computers and Internet connections to over 11,000 libraries in the United States, helping libraries provide free access to computing resources and the Internet to over 95% of the American population. As part of this project, Mr. Crandall also managed the grant for development of WebJunction, a public access computing portal available to all those interested in sharing knowledge and resources on this subject.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Crandall worked at Microsoft and Boeing. He is a member of a number of professional organizations and advisory bodies, and has authored numerous publications on knowledge management topics.

Lorcan Dempsey

Vice President
OCLC Research
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
(Dublin, Ohio, USA)

Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team.

Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, founding Director of the Resource Discovery Network, and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource.

Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information. He is interested in the impact of changing patterns of research and learning on libraries, in libraries as public institutions, and in the architecture of digital information environments. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries. Selected publications are available at http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/publications.shtm.

Juha Hakala

Director, Information Technology
Helsinki University Library - The National Library of Finland
(Helsinki, Finland)

Juha Hakala has been working with library automation since 1987, first in the Automation Unit of Finnish Research Libraries and since 1993 in the National Library. His involvement with Dublin Core began with the second DC workshop in Warwick, UK.

Juha had a central role in making the Dublin Core a Finnish national standard (it was published as SFS 5895 in November 2001). He also was involved with the creation of a DC extension for Finnish government publications. Juha has participated in several international DC initiatives, such as the Nordic Metadata projects, as well as a number of domestic DC-related projects.

In addition to metadata formats Juha is interested in identification of electronic resources. He is at present a member in the ISSN Governing board and in the working group developing ISTC, the International Standard Textual Work Code. He has also registered URN namespaces for ISBN and national bibliography numbers.

Nathalie Leroy

Chief
Information Processing Section
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
(New York, USA))

Nathalie Leroy is active in UN Working Groups and Task Forces on Digital Libraries, Knowledge Sharing, Taxonomies and Metadata; and also in the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Among various functions at the United Nations, Ms. Leroy has coordinated the UNBIS Thesaurus, a 6-language multilingual/multiscript thesaurus which was posted on the Web in November 2001; the Small and Field Libraries Programme, a knowledge management project whose goal is to bridge the digital divide and create a network of UN Libraries worldwide; the United Nations Digitization Programme for the conversion of UN documentation from paper or microform to electronic formats; and the United Nations Library 6-language Web page.

Nathalie Leroy joined the UN in 1984, having previously worked for the French Government in the development of bibliographic and factual databases.

She holds degrees in English Literature, Information Science and Language Sciences, and is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on multilingual and multicultural aspects of human rights terminology.

Paul Miller

Director
Common Information Environment
(United Kingdom)

Paul Miller is Director of the Common Information Environment (CIE), a collaborative activity involving a growing number of public sector bodies across the United Kingdom. Members currently include Becta, the British Library, the Cabinet Office's e-Government Unit (formerly the Office of the e-Envoy), Culture Online, the Department for Education & Skills (DfES), the e-Science Core Programme, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA, formerly Resource), The National Archives, the National Health Service's National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) and UKOLN.

A key focus for CIE activities is the shared recognition that the information held in trust by various organisations should be visible, useful, meaningful and reusable for a wide range of potential beneficiaries.

Paul's involvement with DCMI spans several years and he has at times served on the Advisory Committee, the Advisory Board, the original Executive Committee, and acted as Chair or co-Chair to a number of Working Groups.

Dr. Miller holds a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York. His current interests are in empowering Citizens to make use of the information gathered on their behalf, and in exploring new ways of creating, delivering and sharing Knowledge.

Shigeo Sugimoto

Professor, University of Library and Information Science (ULIS)
(Tskuba, Japan)

Professor Sugimoto has been actively involved in DCMI Metadata activities since 1997. He currently is co-chair of the DCMI Interest Group on Localization and Internationalization. He also co-chaired the program committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 (DC-2001) held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.

Dr. Sugimoto chaired the program committees of the International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995, 1997 and 1999, which were sponsored and held at ULIS. He has been involved in major international conferences on digital libraries in Asia, Europe, and North America as an organizer and program committee member.

Dr. Sugimoto earned the Ph.D. in Information Science (software engineering and programming languages) from Kyoto University in 1985.