Organizers and Sponsor

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH, an applied thinktank for the digital humanities), and Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new “living/learning” program in the Honors College. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Maryland, a Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, was published by the MIT Press in 2008 and won the 2009 Richard J. Finneran Award from the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), the 2009 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), and the 16th annual Prize for a First Book from the Modern Language Association (MLA). Kirschenbaum speaks and writes often on topics in the digital humanities and new media; his work has received coverage in Wired, Boing Boing, Slashdot, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Richard Ovenden is the Associate Director of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Ovenden was educated at Durham University, and University College London. He has worked at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland and at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2003 he has been at the Bodleian Library, initially as Keeper of Special Collections and since 2007 as Associate Director. He is the Chairman of the Digital Preservation Coalition and Director of the futureArch project.

Gabriela Redwine is an archivist and electronic records/metadata specialist at the Harry Ransom Center, where she is responsible for developing and implementing digital preservation policies and procedures. She earned her B.A. in English from Yale University and her M.S. in Information Science and M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Rachel Donahue is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland’s iSchool, researching the preservation of complex, interactive digital objects. She received a BA in English and Illustration from Juniata College in 2004, and an MLS with a specialization in archival science from University of Maryland in 2009. Additionally, she supports the preservation, implementation and communications activities of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies.

Sponsor

The research and writing of this report, as well as the May 2010 symposium at the University of Maryland, are made possible by an award from the Scholarly Communication program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The authors are deeply grateful for this support, and for the advice and assistance of Foundation officers Helen Cullyer and Donald J. Waters. We are also grateful for administrative support from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).