Panel 2: The Evolving Roots of Discovery

Philip Schreur is the Deputy University Librarian at Stanford University. He earned a PhD from Stanford and an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley. As the Deputy University Librarian (DUL), he is the COO for the libraries. In addition, he is responsible for liaising with the Stanford Coordinate libraries in the development of common goals and objectives, and is responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving collaborative and coordinated programs with research libraries in the Ivy Plus Library Confederation (IPLC) along with various national and international institutions.

Peter Broadwell has a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His work applies machine learning, web-based visualization, and other methods of digital analysis to complex cultural data. Recent studies in which he has participated have involved automatic translation and indexing of folklore collections in multiple languages, deep learning-based analysis of dance choreography from video sources, and multimedia annotation of Japanese Noh theater performances.

As the Assistant University Librarian for Research Data Services at Stanford Libraries, Peter works with teams supporting GIS, data acquisition & analysis, data curation, digital scholarship development, and the Academic Technology Specialist program. He holds a PhD in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Washington. He previously served as the Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale University Library, and taught in the department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Uppsala University during 2007-08, and an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar in 2014.

Tom Cramer is the Chief Technology Strategist, Associate University Librarian & Director of Digital Library Systems & Services for the Stanford University Libraries. He directs the technical development and delivery of Stanford’s digital library services, including digitization, management, preservation and access of digital resources that support teaching, learning and research. He is the founder of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), a founder of the Samvera Community, the first adopter and an active contributor to Blacklight, and a member of the FOLIO Community Council. He is the President of the Open Library Foundation and co-chair of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. He has served as a co-PI for the suite of LD4L and LD4P grants from their inception to present day.

Associate University Librarian and Director of IT at Cornell University Library. Responsibilities include oversight of IT operations, user experience, web programming, digital preservation, and open scholarly publishing. I have particular interest in interoperability between information systems and the development of standards and collaborations to facilitate that. Current work includes digital preservation (OCFL), evolution of the FOLIO library services platform, use of linked open data for description and discovery of library resources (LD4L/LD4P), image and A/V interoperability (IIIF), and repositories for open-access scholarly publishing (including work with Samvera and ORCID). Past projects include technical direction of the arXiv e-print archive and development of the OAI-PMH and ResourceSync standards.