DCEP

DCEP Science and Social Science Advisory Committee

Chris Freeland is the Application Development Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden Project Manager for bioinformatics database and imaging projects at MOBOT. Current projects include Botanicus, MOBOT's digital library portal, online at http://www.botanicus.org, and Tropicos, our nomenclature and systematic database, online at http://www.tropicos.org.

Thomas Garnett is Assistant Director for Digital Library and Information Systems of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. He is responsible for Libraries’ electronic outreach efforts including Galaxy of Knowledge, Libraries’ web presence; the Libraries’ Imaging Center; and the conception, implementation and maintenance of the Libraries’ numerous digital products. His major projects at the Libraries’ include: the Libraries’ Digital Editions of Rare Books in Natural History, Design, and the History of Science; Historical Trade literature and Industry Catalogs Online; Native American Literature from the Bureau of American Ethnology Publications; the Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana, biodiversity tools for deep research. Garnett holds a M.L.S. from Catholic University, a B.A. in comparative religion from the University of Colorado. In 1995, he received a fellowship from the Council for Excellence in Government.

Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Head of the New Media Office and Preservation Services Department at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The New Media Office oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues, and access to the corpus of taxonomic literature as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an international consortium of Natural History and botanical garden libraries. Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (bhl.si.edu) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series (www.sil.si.edu/smithsonian contributions) in an electronic format. He received is M.S.L.S. from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990.

Joanna McCaffrey is the Collections Database Architect at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Managing Common Ground program, whose mission is to advance museum collections management through a state-of-the-art third party collection management database solution that furthers the Museum's long term strategy for information management, sharing and dissemination. Nancy McGovern is the Digital Preservation Officer for ICPSR. Her responsibilities include developing and promulgating policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice in the digital preservation community and developing appropriate preservation strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational aspects of digital preservation and the means for the digital preservation community to continually respond to the preservation opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has more than 20 years experience with the preservation of digital content. Before joining ICPSR, she served as a digital preservation manager and researcher at Cornell University Library, the Open Society Archives in Budapest, and the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Nancy McGovern is the Digital Preservation Officer for ICPSR. Her responsibilities include developing and promulgating policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice in the digital preservation community and developing appropriate preservation strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational aspects of digital preservation and the means for the digital preservation community to continually respond to the preservation opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has more than 20 years experience with the preservation of digital content. Before joining ICPSR, she served as a digital preservation manager and researcher at Cornell University Library, the Open Society Archives in Budapest, and the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Katherine McNeill runs the Social Science Data Services program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and is the librarian for economics. In this role she develops and provides data services in the social sciences, including building data collections, facilitating access to data, and promoting tools for quantitative analysis. She is the MIT liaison to the Harvard-MIT Data Center and MIT's Official Representative to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. She is a member of the Expert Committee of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance, an international effort to establish an XML standard for technical documentation describing social science data. Ms. McNeill-Harman obtained her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2001.

Charles K. “Chuck” Miller, Jr. is Chief Information Officer and heads the Information Technology division of the Missouri Botanical Garden and is responsible for both administrative computing and biodiversity informatics. He has over 25 years information technology experience and directs the development and support of Tropicos, the Garden’s world-leading plant information system and Botanicus, a new repository of digitized botanical reference literature from the 18th and 19th century, and other informatics systems used in support of botanical research. He is a member of the CODATA ABCD working group, GBIF DIGIT science subcommittee and an active member of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group.

David Soller, Ph.D. is a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA. He is the Chief of the National Geologic Map Database Project, which is a collaborative project with the state geological surveys. This project addresses the development of standards and guidelines for databases of both published and unpublished, archival geoscience information in map and report format. He serves as coordinator of the project to digitize the Geologic Map of North America, as Coordinator on the North American Geologic Map Data Model Steering Committee, Chair of the Geologic Data Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), and as a Council member of the IUGS Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI).