DCMI Board of Trustees

Raju Buddharaju

Chief Information Officer
Director, Digital Library Services
National Library Board
Singapore, Singapore

Raju Buddharaju oversees the IT systems and IS systems at National Library Board, Singapore. He also leads the group responsible for the provision of digital services of NLB.

Before this he worked as Chief Technology Officer at Singapore Network Services and R&D Director at Information Technology Institute, Singapore.

He is interested in interdisciplinary area of IT systems and IS systems and their cost effective implementations.

Joseph Busch

Founder and Principal - Taxonomy Strategies
San Francisco, California, USA

Joseph A. Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy Strategies. He guides global 2000 companies, government agencies, and NGO's in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. Mr. Busch is an authority in the field of information science and a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

He was a principal of the start-up company Metacode that was sold to the content management company Interwoven in 2000. Prior to working in the software business, Mr. Busch worked at the Getty Trust as a Program Manager for standards and research database projects. His portfolio included the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals, as well as other projects that promoted the social value of cultural information and its importance in the development of national and global information infrastructures.

Mr. Busch is a frequent speaker and the author of many articles on indexing, classification research, and information retrieval systems.

Michael Crandall

Chair, Masters of Science in Information Management Program
The Information School, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA

Michael Crandall is chair of a recently established program at the University of Washington Information School focused on the management of information in all types of organizations and settings. The program blends theory and practice in the areas of management, technology and information organization to meet the needs of those responsible for effective creation, delivery, and management of information for their users.

Prior to joining the University of Washington, Michael spent four years as Technology Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Libraries and Public Access to Information Program. This effort deployed over 40,000 public access computers and Internet connections to over 11,000 libraries in the United States, helping libraries provide free access to computing resources and the Internet to over 95% of the American population. As part of this project, Mr. Crandall also managed the grant for development of WebJunction, a public access computing portal available to all those interested in sharing knowledge and resources on this subject.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Crandall worked at Microsoft and Boeing. He is a member of a number of professional organizations and advisory bodies, and has authored numerous publications on knowledge management topics.

David Dawson

Head of the Digital Futures Team
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
London, United Kingdom

David has extensive experience of ICT across the sector and represents MLA on many different initiatives, and is nominated by the Department of Culture Media and Sport to represent the UK on the National Representatives Group for the Europe-wide Co-ordination of National Digitisation Policies. He acts as expert adviser on a number of committees in the UK and internationally and also as advisor to projects and programmes such as the £50m New Opportunities Fund digitise programme, a project to create a Multi-lingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe and the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Lorcan Dempsey

Vice President
OCLC Research
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Dublin, Ohio, USA

Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team.

Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, founding Director of the Resource Discovery Network, and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource.

Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information. He is interested in the impact of changing patterns of research and learning on libraries, in libraries as public institutions, and in the architecture of digital information environments. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries. Selected publications are available at http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/publications.shtm.

Juha Hakala

Director, Information Technology
Helsinki University Library - The National Library of Finland
Helsinki, Finland

Juha Hakala has been working with library automation since 1987, first in the Automation Unit of Finnish Research Libraries and since 1993 in the National Library. His involvement with Dublin Core began with the second DC workshop in Warwick, UK.

Juha had a central role in making the Dublin Core a Finnish national standard (it was published as SFS 5895 in November 2001). He also was involved with the creation of a DC extension for Finnish government publications. Juha has participated in several international DC initiatives, such as the Nordic Metadata projects, as well as a number of domestic DC-related projects.

In addition to metadata formats Juha is interested in identification of electronic resources. He is at present a member in the ISSN Governing board and in the working group developing ISTC, the International Standard Textual Work Code. He has also registered URN namespaces for ISBN and national bibliography numbers.

Representing the National Library of Korea, the DCMI Affiliate in Korea:

Sam Oh

Professor
Department of Library and Information Science, Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, Korea

Dr. Sam Gyun Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea, head of the Korea delegation for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 and ISO TC46. He represents the National Library of Korea at the DCMI Board of Trustees.

He teaches courses such as database design, Web database design, designing XML and metadata schemas, ontology modeling, information architecture, and designing knowledge management systems. His main research interest is in the area of metadata and ontology modeling. He has extensive experience in consulting companies and government sectors regarding design of metadata and ontologies.

He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, NY, USA in 1995 and worked for the Information School at the University of Washington for 4 years (1994-1998) prior to taking his current post.

John Roberts

Group Manager, Archives Management
Archives New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand

John Roberts manages the Archives New Zealand group responsible for documentation systems. In this role he also oversees the New Zealand Government's Dublin Core-based discovery metadata standard. He has been involved in a range of e-government projects, especially in the areas of metadata strategy, standards and management.

John has been actively involved with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative since 2001, and co-chairs the DCMI Government Community and the DCMI Agents Task Group.

His information management interests include recordkeeping metadata, e-government, the impact of technology on archives and records practices, and recordkeeping legislation. He has written and spoken on these and other questions internationally. He holds a Master of Information Management and Systems from Monash University (Australia), and a Master of Arts from Victoria University (New Zealand).

Shigeo Sugimoto

Professor,
Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies,
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan

Professor Sugimoto has been actively involved in DCMI Metadata activities since 1997. He currently is co-chair of the DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community. He also co-chaired the program committee of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 (DC-2001) held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.

Dr. Sugimoto chaired the program committees of the International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995, 1997 and 1999, which were sponsored and held at ULIS. He has been involved in major international conferences on digital libraries in Asia, Europe, and North America as an organizer and program committee member.

Dr. Sugimoto earned a Ph.D. in Information Science (software engineering and programming languages) from Kyoto University in 1985.