As Executive Director of Fedora Commons, Sandy bridges research and innovation with practical applications and open source software deployment. Her original research at Cornell University Information Science led to the founding of the Fedora Project which, in 2007, she successfully directed into the Fedora Commons non-profit organization. Sandy continually collaborates with scholars, scientists, and practitioners nationally and internationally to further the mission of Fedora Commons and to continue her research in scholarly communication, digital libraries, digital preservation, and information modeling. Sandra also spent ten years in industry leading information technology projects at Corning Incorporated, a Fortune 500 company. Her leadership led to early adoption of computing and information technologies by executives and senior management, helping to forge new processes and techniques for strategic business analysis.
Thorny has over twenty years of experience solving problems with information technology for libraries, museums, archives and numerous scholarly projects. He has extensive experience designing and implementing information architectures and their attendant workflow processes for applications which include digital information in a wide variety of formats and content types. From 1999 to 2007, he was the Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia Library. In that position he co-directed the Fedora Project and designed and oversaw implementation of a digital library designed to hold large collections and provide the infrastructure for the next generation of digital scholarly activities.
Carol is also a research associate in the digital libraries research group in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University and is the communications director for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), Fedora Commons partner, where she has spent the last few years combining technology development with journalistic practices in order to tell great stories about science education in a networked environment. Informed by her background in publishing and visual arts, her interests are in systems for distributed content creation and management, innovative online spaces for scholarship, and personification and meaning in social networks.
Carissa joined Fedora Commons in November 2007, having recently received her B.S. in information management and technology from Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. During her college years, she worked as a research assistant and for an Internet consulting company.
Aaron is a developer with both Fedora Commons and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Originally with a degree in Applied & Engineering Physics, fate and fascination has brought him to the world of Fedora, where over the past few years he has been involved in projects such as MPTStore and NCore.
Jim has been programming for 30 years, in academia and in industry, with experience that includes B2B commerce, real-time operating systems, automated postal sorting facilities, a catalog of 19th century French lithographs, and a CORBA-compliant ORB. These days, Jim describes himself as "a singer, a cyclist, and a middle-tier Java jockey."
Bill came to Fedora Commons in January 2008, from Harris Corporation, where he worked on projects such as the Electronic Records Archive (ERA) prototype for the National Archives, System-Wide Information Management (SWIM) research for the FAA, and the Federal Digital System (FDsys) for the Government Printing Office. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech, and lives in Florida where he enjoys the warm weather and sunshine.
Davis brings over twenty-five years of software development experience to Fedora Commons working on projects for both public sector and commercial organizations. He is a strong proponent of open source software and believes in providing permanent access to our collective digital content. Previously he was a Principal Investigator at Harris Corporation working on service-oriented architectures (SOA), semantic technologies, digital libraries and archives, digital preservation, and led the Harris NARA Electronic Records Archive (ERA) prototype team. His most recent contributions were to the design of the Government Printing Office Future Digital System, and the re-architecting of the U.S. Air Traffic Control system for the FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) and FAA Telecommunication Infrastructure (FTI) programs.
Chris has been designing, developing, and supporting various forms of data management and publishing technology for the past twelve years. He developed Hewlett Packard's first customer support web site publishing technology in the mid-90's, worked as a document management consultant to Sun Microsystems in 2000, and has been working on Fedora and related open source software since 2002.
As a researcher, Dean is the Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell. He leads the effort to develop key components of the Fedora-based core technical infrastructure for the library, and manages the team that maintains the production library services. He also works with the other institutions involved in the Core Integration effort to specify, develop, and provide new digital library technologies to the many projects and partners involved in the NSDL program. On the administrative side, Dean is the Director of Information Technology for Computing and Information Science at Cornell. He helps provide oversight for the Computer Facilities Support group, represents CIS to the campus-wide IT Managers Council, and focuses on a number of issues including IT policy and computer security.