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One more step towards the European digital library
International Conference
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
31 January - 1 February 2008
Biographies of Speakers
Geneviève Clavel-Merrin
Geneviève Clavel-Merrin is responsible for National and International Cooperation
at the Swiss National Library, Bern. She is currently working on projects covering
digitization and its coordination in Swiss libraries, plus public-private partnerships.
She has previously worked on the Swiss catalogue of Digitized Posters
(searchable through the European Library) and is active in the field of
multilingual access (MACS - Multilingual Access to Subjects). She has wide
experience in European-funded projects (CANAL/LS, NEDLIB, TEL, TEL-ME-MOR, EDLproject),
and is the Swiss contact for the European Library. She is active in IFLA
(Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National Libraries Section until 2007),
and in the WSIS (preparatory sessions and follow-up).
Before joining the National Library in 1998, she was a consultant with Clavel SA
(1994-1998) managing national and international projects for the NL in the field
of library networking, database merging and deduplication, cross-language access
and authority control.
She worked from 1987 - 1994 for REBUS (Network of SIBIL users), Lausanne,
and prior to that at the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne .
She is a graduate of the University of Aberystwyth , Wales (1980, French and
Library Science; 1986, Masters in Library Science) and a Chartered member of CILIP
(the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK).
Jill Cousins
Jill Cousins is Director of
The European Library. She took over from
the TEL project and created the operational service The European Library.
The success so far of this service has led to the European Union giving their strategic backing to The European Library for the creation of the European Digital Library.
She has a strong web publishing background, having worked for VNU as their European
Business Development Director and then transferred the lessons learnt from commercial
business-to-business publishing to scholarly publishing working for Blackwell Publishing
and several other academic publishers in the UK. Prior to a publishing career, she worked
in the online environment for many years, first as a researcher with her own company
specialising in providing business information to large corporate companies. The
company still exists 20 years later, owned by Thomson Financial and known as Thomson
First Contact. After selling this company Jill worked as the Marketing Director for
Online Information. Her main interests lie in making sites as usable as possible for
the uninitiated and she is a firm believer inuser driven design and open standards.
She has been involved in several international publishing industry bodies aimed at
achieving this, such as CrossRef and COUNTER. Now combining the skills of web publishing,
marketing, research knowledge and business development she heads the
growing www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org.
Jill holds a Geography degree and a Ph.D. in 16th Century Arabic and Turkish Sea Charts.
David Dawson
David Dawson is Senior Policy Advisor - Digital Futures at the Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Council. He joined the Museums & Galleries Commission in 1998 as New Technology Adviser, before becoming Senior ICT Adviser. He managed the DCMS/MLA IT Challenge Fund, and is currently working on a range of other projects and strategic developments. He represents MLA on many different Groups and initiatives including: UK Co-ordinator of the EU Digitising Content Together initiative - an e-Europe action; Expert adviser to the New Opportunities Fund on the nof-digitise programme; Adviser to DCMS on the development of Culture Online; Works with mda and the 24 Hour Museum; Member of various committess, including UKOLN Interoperability Focus, Metadata for Education, Archaeology Data Service, HEIRNet; Has contributed to a number of strategic developments, including JISC, Office of e-Envoy Broadband Research Group, TASI, and NAACE. He is a join leader of the EDLNet Workpackage 1 on human and domain interoperability.
Sonja de Leeuw
Sonja de Leeuw is Professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the Utrecht University. The subject of her dissertation was ‘Television Drama: Stage for Identity: A study on the relationship between identity of broadcasting companies and Dutch television drama 1969-1988’.
Her research and teaching interests are Dutch television culture in an international context (both history and theory, genres and productions practices) and Media and cultural diversity (diasporic media, representation of ethnicity). Also she teaches media education, which involves the relationship between media and youth culture. Recent publications include: Co-authored with I. Rydin, ‘Diasporic Mediated Spaces’. In: M. Georgiou, O. Bailey and R. Harindranath (eds.), Reimagining Diasporas: Transnational Lives and the Media. Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan, 2006, 175-194. ‘Dutch Documentary Film as a Site of Memory: Changing Perspecti¬ves in the 1990s’. In Journal of European Cultural Studies. Vol 10 (1), 2007, 75-87. ‘Television Fiction and Cultural Diversity: Strategies for Cultural Change’. In: H?jberg, L. and H. S?ndergaard (eds.), European Film and Media Culture. Northern Lights. Film and Media Studies Yearbook 2005. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press and University of Copenhagen, 2006, 91-111. Co-authored with N. Christipoulou, ‘Children making media: constructions of home and belonging’. In: Knörr, J. (ed.), Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency. Bielefeld & Somerset, N.J.: Transcript & Transaction Publishers, 2005, 113-135.
Sonja de Leeuw is coordinator of the EU funded project Video Active,
Creating Access to Europe’s Television Heritage (www.videoactive.eu) and also chairs the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Promotion Fund.
Christophe Dessaux
Christophe Dessaux is a civil engineer. He works at the Directorate for
Development and International Affairs in the Ministry of Culture and
Communication, France, where he is responsible for the Department for
Research and Technology. This department is in charge of the
coordination of Research in the Ministry, of the implementation of
national digitisation plan of cultural heritage, and of the European
development of these activities (Minerva, Michael,
Europeana). Christophe Dessaux is the French representative in the
Member State's expert group on digitisation. Since 2007, he is also
president of the association Michael Culture, which is in charge of the
sustainability of the MICHAEL project, and member of the Executive
Committee of the EDL Foundation. In the EDLnet project, he participates
in the working group on human and organisational interoperability.
Claudia Dillmann
Claudia Dillmann was appointed director of the Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V.,
Frankfurt, in 1997. She received her master degree in German literature, theatre,
film and television sciences and art history from the University Frankfurt am Main. From 1990 to 1997, she worked at the Deutsches Filmmuseum as curator of film exhibitions (among others the museum’s permanent exhibition on the history of film, Eisenstein and the Russian avantgarde, film architecture). From 1992 to 1997 she was Deputy Director of the Museum. She developed and co-ordinated projects on the 100th anniversary of the cinema in 1995, had teaching assignments at Frankfurt University, and wrote numerous lectures and essays on German silent film, international film architecture, and German films of the 1950s. She was a member of several film festival juries. Co-operation in national and international committees, founder of goEast, festival of Central and Eastern European films (since 2001), chief editor of the CD-Rom “The German Films”, Chief editor of filmportal.de. Member of the Executive Committee of the Association des Cinémathèques Européenes – ACE since 1997, elected president in 2004. Since the merger between Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF and Deutsches Filmmuseum on January 1st, 2006, Claudia Dillmann is Director of both institutions. In 2006 she was appointed member of the High Level Export Group on Digital Libraries. Since September 2007, she is member of the Executive Committee of EDL Foundation.
Horst Forster
Horst Forster is currently Director responsible for “Digital content and cognitive systems” in the European Commission’s Directorate general for Information Society and Media. He held various management positions in the European Commission since 1984, following assignments in the German administration at federal level and work in the computer industry. He holds a degree in physics from Darmstadt Technical University.
Stefan Gradmann
Stefan Gradmann has good knowledge and experience in digital library, library automation and information technologies, with a special emphasis on the digital humanities. His second area of expertise is digital identity management as well as authentication and authorisation technologies. His third area of interest is document management and document lifecycle management.
The overall background of his work is an integrated view of the scientific information lifecycle with emphasis on interoperability and open, standards based methods of modelling this scholarly information continuum - both in technical terms as in an e-science perspective. He has been directing major shared cataloguing networks (NBV and GBV), working for OCLC/Pica as a product manager, carrying out projects concerned with open access publication models (such as GAP) and currently is deputy director of Hamburg University's computing center (RRZ), providing a full range of IT services to one of the biggest German universities.
Besides his constant concern for interoperable and open approaches his interest has focussed on specific modes and conditions of IT-use in the digital humanities during the last years. He was an international advisor for the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
He has been involved in project peer reviewing and proposal evaluation under contract with the European Commission since 1994 and recently been carrying out strategic/technical work on digital library interoperability for the EC.
Together with Makx Dekkers he is leading Work Package 2 of the EDLnet project and thus currently contributes to the building of the European Digital Library.
Stefan Gradmann holds a Ph.D. in German Literature (Universität Freiburg i. Brsg.)
Olaf Janssen
Olaf D. Janssen (Netherlands 1973) is project & account manager for The European Library
(www.theeuropeanlibrary.org), the collaborative platform & joint webservice of national libraries of Europe.
He is the hub between the 47 participating libraries and the European Library Office, the day-to-day management team for The European Library.
Over the last three years he’s also been managing a number of satellite projects (TEL-ME-MOR, EDLproject, TELplus, FUMAGABA) to expand, enhance and improve The European Library platform.
His previous position was at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Royal Library of The Netherlands, where he was editor-in-chief for Gabriel, the precursor of The European Library.
Olaf has given presentations & lectures across Europe, Asia and the US. Before moving into the library world, he studied astronomy at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Classical men’s shoes, cycling, cooking and mountaineering are his life-long passions.
Olaf can be reached at
olaf.janssen@theeuropeanlibrary.org
Catherine Lupovici
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.
Angelika Menne-Haritz
Angelika Menne-Haritz is the vice president of the Bundesarchiv
(Federal Archives of Germany) and the director of the Foundation Archives of
Parties and Mass Organisations of the former GDR in the Federal Archives in Berlin.
She is involved in projects like the preparation of a Gateway to archives in Europe,
the “Netzwerk SED-Archivgut” which will be a reference model for a German Gateway to
Archives, the development of MidosaSEARCH, a special archival search engine and
the daofind project that developed the MEX tool set for creating Internet
presentations of Archives including digital reproductions of complete fonds.
She is a trained archivist and holds a doctor degree in German literature and history and
a degree as professor in administrative sciences. Before joining the Federal Archives
Angelika Menne-Haritz was the director of the Archivesschool Marburg after working and
developing archival IT systems in the state archives of Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein.
She is a member of the EAD working group of the Society of American Archivists and has
given lessons in archival science among others in Japan.
Elisabeth Niggemann
Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann is Director General of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) with locations in Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. Her library career started in 1987 at the German Central Library for Medicine as head of the acquisitions department. In 1989 she became head of the cataloguing and subject indexing department at the University and State Library at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 1994, she became director of Düsseldorf University and State Library. She is in her present position since 1999.
She has been involved in many national and international working groups and committees,
among them CENL (Conference of European National Librarians) where she is chair.
She is a member of the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries and a member
of the Executive Group of the European Digital Library Foundation.
Hans Petschar
Dr. Hans Petschar (1959) obtained in 1985 a master in History and German Literature at the University of Salzburg. During his studies he worked in research projects on semiotics and linguistics at the universities of Salzburg and Paris.
From 1986 on he worked in several departments at the Austrian National Library and obtained a MAS on Library Science in 1992. At the Austrian National Library he produced a Multimedia Encyclopedia on the history and the special collections of the Library, and led several research projects concerning digitisation of Cultural Heritage objects. In 2002 he became director of the Austrian Picture Archive at the Austrian National Library.
Dr. Petschar lectured at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna and participated in several research projects of the Austrian Academy of Science and the Austrian Ministry of Culture, Education and Science.
He is the official representative of the Austrian National Library in the board of directors of European National Libraries CENL chair of the CENL content working group for The European Digital Library within TEL.
From 2000 on he worked in several fields for the European Commission. He was partner in the DIGICULT Report (2000-2002) and was the Austrian representative in the NRG-group for coordinating digitisation in Europe. In several European projects he worked as researcher, eg. REGNET, TNT, MINERVA, ERPANET, BRICKS, EDL, EDL-net.
Guus Schreiber
Schreiber studied medicine at the University of Utrecht. After working two years
at the University of Leiden in the Medical Informatics department he joined in
1986 the SWI group at the University of Amsterdam, where he was involved in
research on knowledge engineering. In 1992 he was awarded a Ph.D. on a thesis
entitled “Pragmatics of the
Knowledge Level“. He has been involved in numerous
European and Dutch research projects, including KADS & KADS-II (both on methodologies
for knowledge-system development), REFLECT (reflective reasoning), GAMES (medical
knowledge systems), KACTUS (technical ontologies), IBROW (Intelligent Brokering on the Web) and MIA (Multimedia Information Analysis).
He has published some 100 articles and books. In 2000 he published with MIT Press
a textbook on knowledge engineering and knowledge management, based on the CommonKADS
methodology. Guus Schreiber is now a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at
the Free University Amsterdam. He is chair of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices
and Deployment Working Group and co-chair of W3C’s Web Ontology Working Group and
member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group of W3C. He is also Scientific Director
of the IST Network of Excellence “Knowledge Web”.
Monika Segbert
Monika Segbert provides advice and management expertise to multi-national
projects in the cultural and scientific heritage domain. Her on-going
collaboration with CENL – the Conference of European National Librarians –
focuses on the building of the European Digital Library, a gateway to digital
content from Europe’s libraries, archives and museums. Monika also works with
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries Program in assessing the
impact of public access computing provided by public libraries, and with the eIFL.net
Foundation to manage a network of
library consortia in more than 50 developing countries.
Sjoerd Siebinga
Sjoerd Siebinga (1977) joined The European Library in September 2006.
His activities and expertise are dedicated to the expansion of the website
multilingualism. Sjoerd is a computer linguist who studied Historical Linguistics,
Old Germanic Comparative Philology and Frisian at the University of Amsterdam.
Before joining the European Library office in October 2006, he worked for the Frisian
research institute 'Fryske Akademy' in Leeuwarden and the 'Dutch institute for Lexicology'
(INL) in Leiden. Some of the projects he has worked on in the recent past are Corpus
Spoken Frisian (a corpus based on dialectal and sociological selected transcribed
spoken Frisian audio-material), Dutch integrated language database
(a diachronic database of 8th to the 21st century Dutch), the Old-Frisian
Etymological Dictionary with Dirk Boutkan (Brill: 2005), and the new Indo-European
Etymological Dictionary (IEED) project by the Leiden University Department
of Comparative Linguistics.
Daniel Teruggi
Born in Argentina in 1952, he has developed his professional career in France, where he lives since 1977. Composer and researcher, he works since 1981 in the Ina (National Audiovisual Institute) in Paris, in the GRM (Musical Research Group, founded by Pierre Schaeffer en 1958). He has been the Director of the GRM since 1997 as well as director or the Research department in Ina since 2001.
He has composed nearly 80 works, mainly for the concert and always using electroacoustic devices with or without acoustic instruments. He is the author of numerous research articles related to sound and musical perception as well as musical analysis. His music has been performed in more than 30 countries and published in different CD collections.
In recent years he has been actively working on the preservation of audiovisual collections and particularly the case of electroacoustic music, where content and container are srongly linked and where the traditional models of conservation are not effective. He has been the coordinator of the FP6 European project PrestoSpace.
PhD in Art and Technology, Daniel Teruggi, has developed an important activity related to teaching at the Sorbonne University or as visiting professor in Hertforshire (GB), guest professor at TU Berlin and Universidad 3 de Febrero (Arg).
Herbert Van de Sompel
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication.
Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server,
and the info URI. Currently, his focus is on the new “Object Re-Use and Exchange” (ORE)
effort by the Open Archives Initiative, and on the “MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of
Resources” (MESUR) project.
Maja Žumer
Dr. Maja Žumer is Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Before she became a faculty member of LIS at University of Ljubljana, she was first a systems librarian, then (since 1996) Head of Research and Development Department at the National and University Library in Ljubljana. She still holds a part-time research position with the national library.
Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces, and, recently, FRBR model, particularly implementation aspects.
She is a member of »FRBR review group«, the chair of the Working Group for »Guidelines for national bibliographies in the digital age« and co-chair of FRSAR working group.
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