DigitalDiscovery2008 Speakers
Presentations
Richard Baraniuk, Rice University: Open Access Education: Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge (PDF)
Daviess Menefee, Elsevier: Will Web 2.0 Kill Publishing?: Turbulence and Change in the STM World (PDF)
Sweitze Roffel, Elsevier: Perspectives from Elsevier Journal Publishing: Changes, Challenges and Innovation (PDF)
Posters
Erin Dorris, Abe Korah, and Tyler Manolovitz, Sam Houston State University: Next-Generation Collaboration: 21st Century Tools for Scholarly Research and Communication (handout and poster)
Sonya E. Fogg: Finding a Niche: Establishing Peer Review Standards at a Burgeoning Open Access Journal (abstract and poster)
Nadia M. Nassaj, Baylor College of Medicine: Communication Mechanism for Active Collaboration (abstract)
Cynthia Phelps and K.E. Peek: Emerging Technologies Support Academic Communities of Practice (abstract)
James M. Spence, Patricia Donna, and Muhammad Walji, The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston: Using electronic forms within an electronic patient record to create an institutional clinical data repository (abstract
and poster )
Speakers
Daviess Menefee, Director, Library Relations, Elsevier
With more than 25 years in the information industry, including credentials as an academic librarian, Daviess’ breadth of experience spans libraries and networks through to publishing. He is actively engaged in dialogues with librarians on the changes occurring within the information industry. Daviess is also one of the company’s key drivers of the HINARI and AGORA programs which strive to provide free or low cost information resources to the developing world.
As an academic librarian, Daviess worked in two major academic research libraries: Rice and Ohio State University. His interest in technology and information applications took him to OCLC where he spent ten years developing online reference products and journals, including the first e-only journal, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials. Daviess’ rich experience with Elsevier ranges from online products to marketing and communications, including serving as ScienceDirect’s development product manager during which time he moved to Amsterdam to guide a key product development phase.
Sweitze Roffel, Publisher, Computer Sciences, Elsevier
Sweitze Roffel is the Publisher responsible for Elsevier’s journals in the fields of Theoretical Computer Science and Computational Intelligence. These include established titles in such areas as Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Sets & Systems and Theoretical Computer Science, as well as newer journals such as the Journal of Web Semantics and Computer Science Review. Mr. Roffel is currently based in New York and was previously responsible for Elsevier’s Statistics & Probability and Human Computer Interactions publications out of Elsevier’s Amsterdam Office.
Before joining Elsevier, Sweitze Roffel held various positions in the publishing industry, ranging from electronic product development at Wolters Kluwer to customer relations management in the consumer magazine industry. His interests include knowledge dissemination, ranging from technology to a social and business perspective.
Mr. Roffel holds an advanced degree in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Richard Baraniuk, Connexions, Rice University
Richard Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the founder of Connexions (cnx.org). Dr. Baraniuk's honors include national research awards from the NSF and ONR, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, the ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois, several best paper awards, the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award, the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award, and an MIT Technology Review TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology award. Dr. Baraniuk is a Fellow of the IEEE and was selected as one of Edutopia Magazine’s Daring Dozen Education Innovators in 2007. Connexions received the Tech Museum Laureate Award from the Tech Museum of Innovation in 2006.
View Rich's TED talk at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/25
Niels Weertman, Director of Product Management, Scopus, Elsevier
Niels Weertman joined Elsevier Amsterdam in 2001, working as a Management Trainee on a number of projects within electronic publishing, production and sales. In 2002 he joined the ScienceDirect team as a Product Manager. He subsequently held various positions within Elsevier’s Electronic Products group, such as the interim Head of Scirus. End of 2005, Niels joined Scopus, which was launched in 2004 and has since grown to a successful new business with a strong user base. As Scopus Director, he holds overall responsibility for product development, sales and marketing of Scopus and Scirus.
Niels earned a degree in Communication and Information Sciences from the State University in Groningen in The Netherlands.
Panelists
Lisa Spiro , Rice University
Lisa Spiro directs Rice University’s Digital Media Center, where she helps to plan and manage digital projects, studies the impact of information technology on higher education, and oversees a media production lab. She was the PI for the Travelers in the Middle East Archive, sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, and created the Learning Science and Technology Repository, funded by Microsoft Research. A Frye Leadership Institute fellow, Lisa serves on the program committee for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and is the editor of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin. She has published or presented on a range of topics, including humanities scholars’ use of digital collections, digital storytelling, building multimedia digital archives, and tracking innovations in educational technology. Lisa received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, where she worked as the managing editor of Postmodern Culture and a project assistant at the University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center. Currently she is re-mixing her dissertation on bachelorhood in nineteenth century America as a work of digital scholarship, relying on electronic resources for her research, exploring text analysis and visualization tools, and experimenting with videos and blogging as a means of scholarly publishing. Lisa’s blog, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, is at http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/
Jack W. Smith, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston
In December 2005, Dr. Smith was appointed Dean of the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He is a former team Leader of Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. His work focused on the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and transmission of medical information related to NASA spaceflight.
Dr. Smith was appointed Director of the Bioinformatics component of the CTSA grant awarded to The University of Texas Health Science Center in 2006. He joined a large team of medical professionals who have established the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences in partnership with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Memorial Hermann Hospital System. Dr. Smith serves as an informatics consultant to other universities seeking application for a CTSA grant.
His research interests include artificial intelligence, modeling complex problem-solving in healthcare, implementation of decision support and tutoring systems, and the application of cognitive science to understanding human-computer interaction. Dr. Smith is a board certified in Pathology and has a doctorate in Computer Science in the area of Artificial Intelligence.
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is the publisher of Digital Scholarship. Previously, he served for 19 years as either the Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development or the Assistant Dean for Systems at the University of Houston Libraries. Bailey has been an Internet publisher for over 18 years, starting in 1989 with a freely available online journal (The Public-Access Computer Systems Review); shifting to a freely available electronic book in 1996 (Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography), which has been updated 69 times; and adding Weblogs in 2001 (Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog) and 2005 (DigitalKoans). He is the author of the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals. His research interests include digital copyright, digital libraries, DRM, net neutrality, open access, and scholarly communication.
Kathy Johnson-Throop, NASA Johnson Space Center
Kathy Johnson-Throop is the Branch Chief for Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems at NASA Johnson Space Center. This branch houses most of the astronaut clinical information and human research data collected by NASA and is also responsible for the research and development of healthcare systems for space flight. Previously she was a faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences. She has a PhD in Computer Science with Studies in Artificial Intelligence from The Ohio State University. Her interests include decision support systems, knowledge management, human computer interaction, information systems, data/information discovery, data bases, data/information visualization, and artificial intelligence.