General Project Manager
+31 (0)70 3140 683
Email: gro.yrarbilnaeporueeht@icivopul.enirehtac
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Catherine Lupovici has many years of experience in digital libraries, being Director of the Digital Library Department at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Bnf) prior to joining the EDLnet Office. Catherine was involved in the development of the Web archiving new services in the Bnf, in the development of the trusted digital repository and in the contribution of BnF to the definition of what a European Digital Library might be through the Europeana maquette and prototype as well as in the Gallica online digital library.

After her master in librarianship Catherine became Director of the Académie nationale de Médecine Library for five years. She was then in charge of the organisation of the French Academic libraries cooperative network including the cooperative acquisition policies and union catalogues in the Ministry of Education Library office. She worked after in Jouve SA French printed company involved in data capture and electronic publishing were she led several European Research and Development projects bringing together libraries, publishers and research laboratories specialised in information technologies.

Catherine has a degree in Physic and Chemistry and loves the history of sciences.

Project Leader
+31 (0)70 3140 711
Email: gro.yrarbilnaeporueeht@adnal-tlohrev.allimahs
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Originally from London, Shamilla has been living in The Netherlands for approximately 6 years working as a specialised ICT consultant in the field of enterprise content management (ECM). She has worked at various international organisations using skills that have been aided by her studies in Information Management and International Studies. Shamilla will be responsible for the development aspects concerned with the Europeana portal.

PR / Communication Manager
+31 (0)70 3140 684
Email: gro.yrarbilnaeporueeht@yadrup.nahtanoj
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Jon Purday joined EDLnet in September 2007 on secondment from the British Library, where he was Head of Corporate Communications. Previous roles include communications manager for the British Library’s bibliographic services and for its digital programmes during the 1990s. He began his career as the first Curator of Recorded Literature at the National Sound Archive. He has been on secondment before – for a short spell in New York working on an archive of recorded poetry, and more recently working on online communications at the Halifax, a major financial services provider.

He read English at the University of Sussex, and did postgraduate studies in marketing at Manchester Business School. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Marketing, and has taught communications on their professional development course.

His interests include cycling, glassmaking, architecture and - perhaps anachronistically - collecting books and prints.

Interoperability Manager
+31 (0)70 3140 773
Email: gro.yrarbilnaeporueeht@otomigus.og
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Go Sugimoto joined the EDLnet Office in February 2008; he is responsible for interoperability issues between libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual archives. Go is Japanese and has a long working experience in Europe. He graduated from Keio University in Tokyo, specialising in Carthaginian archaeology. He then spent 4 years in the UK, studying an MA in Heritage Management at the University of Birmingham (Ironbridge) and Msc in Archaeological Information Systems at the University of York while working for Wessex Archaeology (Salisbury), an excavation company. Go then returned to Japan and started another career at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo as a researcher. Before joining EDLnet, Go stayed in Italy for 2 years as a CHIRON (Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network) fellow in Vast-lab, PIN, the University of Florence. He has more than 15 academic publications in English and Japanese and attended international conferences during the last 5 years. Go is passionate about cultural heritage management and the use of high-tech/computer for archaeology and humanities. We invite you to visit his project website: Digital Data Survey for Japanese Archaeology (JAD2). Go loves playing the guitar, Tango dancing, swimming, badminton, and photography.

Project Leader / Developer for EDLnet
+31 (0) 70 3140 679
Email: ln.bk@seirved.ekper
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Repke was born in The Netherlands. He studied Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and has self thought IT skills. His has had different positions in international social sciences involving data archiving and sharing. Repke has worked as a data miner for internet research, as a researcher for Best Practices Scientific Information Services and is currently working for the Digital Library and Online Services Development for The National Library of The Netherlands. (see: http://www.linkedin.com/in/repke)

For EDLnet Repke will be involved in writing functional requirements for the Work Package Leaders as part of the development process to create a maquette and series of prototypes. He will make recommendations and user requirements originating from the 5 working groups of WP1 (“Political/Human/Inter-community interoperability”), WP2 (“Technical and Semantic Interoperability”) and WP3 (“Users and Usability”) in order to turn them into functional requirements for the technical implementation.

His hobbies are mountain walking, meeting friends and colleagues internationally. He is also dedicated to contributing to digital library efforts in Africa. (see: http://www.sagreenstone.unam.na/index.html)

Intern

Cesar Esponda (1980) was born in Mexico City. After finishing his Bachelor in Communication Sciences, he went to the Netherlands to study a Master degree in Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University. This cursus allowed him to get an insight into the world of digital access to cultural heritage. In September 2007 Cesar joined The European Library, where he worked on the static content of the website. He loves literature, music, films, visiting museums and travelling.

Intern

Christoph (1977) was born in Rotterdam and grew up in Munich, Helsinki and Dublin. He studied English Literature and History in Trinity College, Dublin, where he has also completed his Ph.D. on “The Antwerp Question” and the German occupation of Belgium during the First Wolrd War. After a year’s traineeship in the National Library of Ireland he enrolled in the School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin. He is combining his Master’s thesis on multilingual interoperability of controlled vocabulary with his work in The European Library, where he will contribute to EDLProject WorkPackage 2, Task 3: cross-language access to bibliographic subject data. He joined the office in June 2007 and will stay for three months. Though a decent juggler, he is still a beginner at table soccer.

Intern
Guillaume Fesquet (1983) joined The European Library in February 2007 and left in June 2007. He mainly worked on The European Library Metadata Registry as part of his end studies internship. Guillaume studied physics at the universities of Montpellier and Strasbourg and switched to Information and Library Science at the French Librarian School in Lyon. Guillaume was part in the project for four months. Guillaume likes traveling and hiking.