International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Science and Technology 2002 : Lecturers' biographies

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Jonathan Clark:

Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier Science in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Jonathan was Publishing Director for Mathematics and Computer Science before taking up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier Science's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. He currently holds the position of Technology Director. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.

David Dallman:

David Dallman (1942) graduated in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1964, and went on to do his Ph.D in particle physics at Imperial College, Univerity of London. Following a one year Royal Society fellowship spent in 1970-1971 at the Institut für Hochenergiephysik in Vienna, he remained on the staff there for the next 15 years. His research projects were mainly at CERN but also included an experiment carried out at the Serpukhov laboratory near Moscow. From 1978 onwards he was permanently based at CERN, working on several vital aspects of the UA1 experiment at the antiproton-proton collider. In 1982/1983 this resulted in the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons, now considered to be one of the major achievements of physics in the second half of the 20th century, and for which the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to the leader of the project. In 1985, David took up a post in the CERN Scientific Information Service (libraries had been an active secondary interest of his throughout his research career) where he has been mainly involved with the development of CERN's worldwide high-energy physics database. He was quick to grasp the significance of the Los Alamos e-print archives and initialised the activity now known as "harvesting metadata" in 1994. He contributed substantially to the design of the Web interface to the CERN databases and, when electronic journals emerged in 1997, he implemented the idea of a link manager to access articles directly from the already-existing database records. In recent years he has been compiling a factual Web database covering particle physics and associated fields. At present he is particularly interested in linking document databases to and from other kinds of research information, and in developing the publication process to match today's technical possibilities.

Mark Doyle:

Mark Doyle has been with The American Physical Society for the past five years and is the Manager of Product Development. Fred Friend His responsibilities include managing the development of APS's Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) as well as coordinating resource linking strategies, authoring tool development, and SGML/XML archive design. Mark sits on the editorial board of ALPSP's journal 'Learned Publishing' and is a member of the CrossRef Technical Working Group. He came to APS after working for two years on the development of the Los Alamos e-Print Archive. He received a Ph.D. in high energy physics (string theory) from Princeton University in 1992.

Frederick Friend:

Fred Friend was born in war-time U.K., grew up by the sea in Dover, read most of the books in his local public library, and with the help of supportive parents went off to study history at Kings College London. He had the good fortune to enter academic libraries at a time of growth. His first post was in Manchester University Library, where his future wife was also working. Fred moved from university to university in the UK and obtained his first library director post at the University of Essex. This was followed by a move to University College London, where he was library director for 15 years before moving into his present post, exploring new developments in information services. Fred is involved in national and international initiatives through the work of organizations such as JISC and SCONUL in the UK and international groups such as ICOLC. He is a proud father and grand-father. You may contact him by e-mail at f.friend@ucl.ac.uk or via his website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarly-communication/.

Hans Geleijnse:

Hans Geleijnse has been Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy since November 2000. Before that, Hans had been university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. He was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national and international initiatives with respect to electronic publishing, e.g., the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994) and the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles. At the European University Institute he is currently engaged in the development and implementation of the information strategy of the Institute and in projects on electronic theses, working papers and academic publications. Hans is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the board of Ticer. He was and still is involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II, T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, library strategy, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing.

Emanuella Giavarra:

Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer. From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII). On 14 July 2000, Emanuella won the very prestigious European Woman of Achievement award. The award is in recognition of her licensing efforts on behalf of the European library community.

Gertraud Griepke:

Gertraud Griepke Graduated in Organic Chemistry from the University of Frankfurt (Germany). After her graduation, she started as an Editor at the Beilstein Institute for Organic Chemistry in Frankfurt and member of the Beilstein Database team. Since, then she worked as a Marketing Manager for chemical handbooks and databases at Springer-Verlag (Beilstein, Gmelin, Landoldt Boernstein) and as a Marketing Manager for all electronic products in Springer-Verlag. Currently, she is Head of the Marketing and Sales of Journals and the Information Service LINK at Springer-Verlag, as well as member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Serials".

Rick Johnson:

Rick Johnson directs SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international library alliance that is creating a more effective and competitive scientific communication marketplace. Through its publisher partnerships, SPARC fosters creation of high-quality, economical alternatives to high-priced journals. Since becoming SPARC's first staff member in 1998, Rick has developed a variety of publishing collaborations and has led public communication and advocacy programs that carry the message of change across college and university campuses. Before joining SPARC, Rick was with Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America, divisions of LEXIS-NEXIS that serve the academic market. As Vice President of Marketing, and later as Senior Vice President of CIS/UPA, Rick sponsored the creation of CIS's first web-based products, including Congressional Universe, and built UPA's successful international marketing program.

David Kohl:

David Kohl is Dean and University Librarian, Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati where he has served for the past 11 years. In addition, he continues to serve as Director of the University of Cincinnati Digital Press -- which he founded in 1995. He has served in various library capacities at the University of Colorado (Boulder), University of Illinois (Urbana), and Washington State University. Among other activities he has represented OhioLINK (a state-wide consortium of Ohio academic libraries) during the (three year) Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) organized by the U.S. government, served for six years as the Association of Research Libraries delegate to IFLA's Document Delivery and Interlending Section, has twice chaired OhioLINK's Library Administrative Council, is active in the International Coalition of Library Consortia and is advisor to HEAL-Link (the Greek national academic library consortium) and SELL (Southern Europe Library Link!) regional consortium. He has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in Divinity and Library Science.

Rick Luce:

Richard Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Known as both an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, his organization was the co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award from the Library of Congress, and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence. Los Alamos appointed Rick as the Project Leader of the Library Without Walls digital library program in 1994. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library program to deliver large-scale science databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). Rick received a 1996 Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos for his contributions supporting science and technology. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and digital publishing, as well as being a well-known international speaker. In 1999 he co-founded the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor to the Max Planck Society, a member of the Executive Boards of the National Information Standards Organization, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovations Program. He was a founding board member of the New Mexico Library Alliance, the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information, and former chair of the New Mexico State Library Advisory Council. Prior to his appointment at Los Alamos in 1991, Rick held positions as Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and Assistant Director of the Boulder Public Library. He speaks extensively in the areas of Digital Libraries, Quality and Change Management, Strategic Planning and Electronic Publishing.

Morten Nicolaisen:

Biography not available yet.

Teun Nijssen:

Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust.

Thomas Place:

Thomas Wessel Place (1950) graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship with the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, he became a lecturer in the Methodology and Philosophy of Science with the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University (1975 until 1987). From 1988 until 1993 he was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 he has been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg University. Since 1989, he has been involved in library automation projects. He was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). He was project manager of the European project Decomate II that aims at creating a pan-European Digital Library for Economics with mutual access to the heterogeneous, distributed and pooled digital resources of the consortium members in the field of Economics. Currently, he coordinates the further development of the Decomate software. The software is marketed by OCLC|Pica under the name iPort.

David Stern:

David Stern has been the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University since 1995. He has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He has worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and serves as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services. His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focussed primarily upon scholars workstations. He is currently involved in the development of end-user search systems for both local and remote hosts, including a web-based expert systems librarian emulator. He is also working on the development of standards and cost models for seamless full-text search and retrieval systems. His publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, and he recently edited a special issue of Science and Technology Libraries entitled Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios. He also is the author of "Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences" (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000). See for more information http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/dirstuff.html.

Herbert Van de Sompel:

Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). Currently, Herbert is Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. In the Spring of 2002, he will start a new job as Digital Library Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library.

Jens Vigen:

Jens Vigen has been a scientific information officer at CERN since 1994. Stimulated by the strongly demanding high energy physics community, he has been deeply involved in developing electronic services at CERN, often in collaboration with commercial partners like DatastarWeb, Elsevier Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and Springer Verlag. Before joining CERN Jens held a position at the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has a master degree in civil engineering; geodesy and photogrammetry.

Engelbert Zass:

After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at ETH Zürich in 1977, Engelbert Zass, a native of Cologne, Germany, specialized in chemical information. He has been searching public online databases since 1979, and worked with in-house databases since 1985. In 1995, he helped to start a cooperation among Swiss university chemistry departments for running in-house chemistry databases. Based on this practical experience, he has been teaching chemical information courses at ETH and other institutions since 1980. He is also "Lehrbeauftragter" (lecturer) at the Universities of Zürich and Berne. Presently, he is engaged in projects concerning Web-based teaching and development of multimedia teaching modules. As deputy head of the ETH Chemistry Biology Information Center, he is responsible for operation of in-house databases, user support, chemical information education & training.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Jonathan Clark: Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier Science in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Jonathan was Publishing Director for Mathematics and Computer Science before taking up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier Science's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. He currently holds the position of Technology Director. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.
	David Dallman: David Dallman (1942) graduated in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1964, and went on to do his Ph.D in particle physics at Imperial College, Univerity of London. Following a one year Royal Society fellowship spent in 1970-1971 at the Institut für Hochenergiephysik in Vienna, he remained on the staff there for the next 15 years. His research projects were mainly at CERN but also included an experiment carried out at the Serpukhov laboratory near Moscow. From 1978 onwards he was permanently based at CERN, working on several vital aspects of the UA1 experiment at the antiproton-proton collider. In 1982/1983 this resulted in the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons, now considered to be one of the major achievements of physics in the second half of the 20th century, and for which the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to the leader of the project. In 1985, David took up a post in the CERN Scientific Information Service (libraries had been an active secondary interest of his throughout his research career) where he has been mainly involved with the development of CERN's worldwide high-energy physics database. He was quick to grasp the significance of the Los Alamos e-print archives and initialised the activity now known as "harvesting metadata" in 1994. He contributed substantially to the design of the Web interface to the CERN databases and, when electronic journals emerged in 1997, he implemented the idea of a link manager to access articles directly from the already-existing database records. In recent years he has been compiling a factual Web database covering particle physics and associated fields. At present he is particularly interested in linking document databases to and from other kinds of research information, and in developing the publication process to match today's technical possibilities.
	Mark Doyle: Mark Doyle has been with The American Physical Society for the past five years and is the Manager of Product Development. His responsibilities include managing the development of APS's Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) as well as coordinating resource linking strategies, authoring tool development, and SGML/XML archive design. Mark sits on the editorial board of ALPSP's journal 'Learned Publishing' and is a member of the CrossRef Technical Working Group. He came to APS after working for two years on the development of the Los Alamos e-Print Archive. He received a Ph.D. in high energy physics (string theory) from Princeton University in 1992.
	Frederick Friend: Fred Friend was born in war-time U.K., grew up by the sea in Dover, read most of the books in his local public library, and with the help of supportive parents went off to study history at Kings College London. He had the good fortune to enter academic libraries at a time of growth. His first post was in Manchester University Library, where his future wife was also working. Fred moved from university to university in the UK and obtained his first library director post at the University of Essex. This was followed by a move to University College London, where he was library director for 15 years before moving into his present post, exploring new developments in information services. Fred is involved in national and international initiatives through the work of organizations such as JISC and SCONUL in the UK and international groups such as ICOLC. He is a proud father and grand-father. You may contact him by e-mail at f.friend@ucl.ac.uk or via his website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarly-communication/.
	Hans Geleijnse: Hans Geleijnse has been Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy since November 2000. Before that, Hans had been university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. He was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national and international initiatives with respect to electronic publishing, e.g., the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994) and the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles. At the European University Institute he is currently engaged in the development and implementation of the information strategy of the Institute and in projects on electronic theses, working papers and academic publications. Hans is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the board of Ticer. He was and still is involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II, T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, library strategy, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing.
	Emanuella Giavarra: Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer. From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII). On 14 July 2000, Emanuella won the very prestigious European Woman of Achievement award. The award is in recognition of her licensing efforts on behalf of the European library community.
	Gertraud Griepke: Gertraud Griepke Graduated in Organic Chemistry from the University of Frankfurt (Germany). After her graduation, she started as an Editor at the Beilstein Institute for Organic Chemistry in Frankfurt and member of the Beilstein Database team. Since, then she worked as a Marketing Manager for chemical handbooks and databases at Springer-Verlag (Beilstein, Gmelin, Landoldt Boernstein) and as a Marketing Manager for all electronic products in Springer-Verlag. Currently, she is Head of the Marketing and Sales of Journals and the Information Service LINK at Springer-Verlag, as well as member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Serials".
	Rick Johnson: Rick Johnson directs SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international library alliance that is creating a more effective and competitive scientific communication marketplace. Through its publisher partnerships, SPARC fosters creation of high-quality, economical alternatives to high-priced journals. Since becoming SPARC's first staff member in 1998, Rick has developed a variety of publishing collaborations and has led public communication and advocacy programs that carry the message of change across college and university campuses. Before joining SPARC, Rick was with Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America, divisions of LEXIS-NEXIS that serve the academic market. As Vice President of Marketing, and later as Senior Vice President of CIS/UPA, Rick sponsored the creation of CIS's first web-based products, including Congressional Universe, and built UPA's successful international marketing program.
	David Kohl: David Kohl is Dean and University Librarian, Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati where he has served for the past 11 years. In addition, he continues to serve as Director of the University of Cincinnati Digital Press -- which he founded in 1995. He has served in various library capacities at the University of Colorado (Boulder), University of Illinois (Urbana), and Washington State University. Among other activities he has represented OhioLINK (a state-wide consortium of Ohio academic libraries) during the (three year) Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) organized by the U.S. government, served for six years as the Association of Research Libraries delegate to IFLA's Document Delivery and Interlending Section, has twice chaired OhioLINK's Library Administrative Council, is active in the International Coalition of Library Consortia and is advisor to HEAL-Link (the Greek national academic library consortium) and SELL (Southern Europe Library Link!) regional consortium. He has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in Divinity and Library Science.
	Rick Luce: Richard Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Known as both an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, his organization was the co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award from the Library of Congress, and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence. Los Alamos appointed Rick as the Project Leader of the Library Without Walls digital library program in 1994. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library program to deliver large-scale science databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). Rick received a 1996 Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos for his contributions supporting science and technology. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and digital publishing, as well as being a well-known international speaker. In 1999 he co-founded the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor to the Max Planck Society, a member of the Executive Boards of the National Information Standards Organization, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovations Program. He was a founding board member of the New Mexico Library Alliance, the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information, and former chair of the New Mexico State Library Advisory Council. Prior to his appointment at Los Alamos in 1991, Rick held positions as Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and Assistant Director of the Boulder Public Library. He speaks extensively in the areas of Digital Libraries, Quality and Change Management, Strategic Planning and Electronic Publishing.
	Morten Nicolaisen: Biography not available yet.
	Teun Nijssen: Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust.
	Thomas Place: Thomas Wessel Place (1950) graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship with the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, he became a lecturer in the Methodology and Philosophy of Science with the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University (1975 until 1987). From 1988 until 1993 he was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 he has been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg University. Since 1989, he has been involved in library automation projects. He was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). He was project manager of the European project Decomate II that aims at creating a pan-European Digital Library for Economics with mutual access to the heterogeneous, distributed and pooled digital resources of the consortium members in the field of Economics. Currently, he coordinates the further development of the Decomate software. The software is marketed by OCLC\|Pica under the name iPort.
	David Stern: David Stern has been the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University since 1995. He has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He has worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and serves as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services. His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focussed primarily upon scholars workstations. He is currently involved in the development of end-user search systems for both local and remote hosts, including a web-based expert systems librarian emulator. He is also working on the development of standards and cost models for seamless full-text search and retrieval systems. His publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, and he recently edited a special issue of Science and Technology Libraries entitled Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios. He also is the author of "Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences" (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000). See for more information http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/dirstuff.html.
	Herbert Van de Sompel: Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). Currently, Herbert is Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. In the Spring of 2002, he will start a new job as Digital Library Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library.
	Jens Vigen: Jens Vigen has been a scientific information officer at CERN since 1994. Stimulated by the strongly demanding high energy physics community, he has been deeply involved in developing electronic services at CERN, often in collaboration with commercial partners like DatastarWeb, Elsevier Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and Springer Verlag. Before joining CERN Jens held a position at the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has a master degree in civil engineering; geodesy and photogrammetry.
	Engelbert Zass: After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at ETH Zürich in 1977, Engelbert Zass, a native of Cologne, Germany, specialized in chemical information. He has been searching public online databases since 1979, and worked with in-house databases since 1985. In 1995, he helped to start a cooperation among Swiss university chemistry departments for running in-house chemistry databases. Based on this practical experience, he has been teaching chemical information courses at ETH and other institutions since 1980. He is also "Lehrbeauftragter" (lecturer) at the Universities of Zürich and Berne. Presently, he is engaged in projects concerning Web-based teaching and development of multimedia teaching modules. As deputy head of the ETH Chemistry Biology Information Center, he is responsible for operation of in-house databases, user support, chemical information education & training.