Subject Repositories

In order of appearance:

Jean Sykes has been Librarian and Director of IT Services at the LSE since January 1998. In August 2009 Jean’s title changed to Chief Information Officer and she joined the LSE Director’s Management Team. Since 2003, Jean has chaired Nereus, a growing European consortium of economics research libraries. Nereus started with six members and now has 21 libraries from ten European countries plus one member each from Australia and the USA. For some years she sat on JISC’s Committee for Content Services and from 2002 to 2009 she chaired the national Digitisation Advisory Group overseeing JISC’s £22 million large-scale digitisation programme, one of the largest public sector digitisation programmes in the world. Since 2008, Jean has led the HEFCE-funded UK Research Data Service project (UKRDS). Jean has also been chair of the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries and of SCONUL.

Hans Geleijnse is currently Director of Library and IT Services at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. In 2006, Library, IT and Media Services at Tilburg University were integrated into one department under his leadership. Before 2003, Hans was Director of Information Services and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence and University Librarian at Tilburg University.

Hans is the Project Director of the EC Project Network of European Economists Online and has been involved in the NEREUS network from the start. He is also President of LIBER, the Association of Research Libraries in Europe, Chairman of the Frankfurt Group, member of the Board of SPARC Europe, member of the Board of the European Digital Library and advisor to the SURF Board for ICT and Research.

Nicholas Barr is Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics, the author of numerous books and articles on the economics of the welfare state and the finance of higher education. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Social Security Review and an Associate Editor of CESifo Economic Studies and the Australian Economic Review. His teaching includes economic theory, public economics, the economics of the welfare state, the political economy of post-communist transition and topics in public policy.

Javier Hernández-Ros is the Head of Unit, Access to Information, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission (since June 2002). This unit co-ordinates the ‘EU Digital libraries’ initiative and promotes legal initiatives to support the development of the digital content industry.

Javier trained as a civil engineer in Madrid (Universidad Politécnica) and has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Instituto de Empresa). After seven years working in Spanish engineering companies, he joined the European Commission in 1986 and was involved in technology transfer and innovation policy initiatives and set up the European network of ‘Innovation Relay Centres’ and the ‘Innovating Regions in Europe’ network. From 2002 – 2005, Javier was responsible for the e-Content and the Safer Internet programmes.

Dale Heenan is the Web Project Manager for ESRC, the Economic and Social Research Council. Since 2008 he has been working on the redevelopment of the ESRC Society Today website, which has included pilot work relating to the SWORD protocol within the ESRC Social Sciences Repository.

Over the last 10 years he has worked for eCommerce technology companies and a Regional consortium of local authorities dealing within eLearning within Secondary Schools. Dale recently started a dissertation on Institutional and Funder repositories for his MSc in Internet Systems Development.

Neil Jacobs is a programme manager working for JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK. In that role he has been responsible for a range of repositories and related projects, including development work on EPrints, DSpace and Fedora platforms, and work related to SWORD, OAI-ORE and Dublin Core Application Profiles. He has also managed influential studies such as the recent UK report on the economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models (the 'Houghton Report'), and reports on research data curation and sharing, and sharing digital learning materials.

Cathrine Harboe-Ree is the University Librarian at Monash University, Australia. She represents her university, which is the lead agency, on the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Steering Committee and has formerly been a member of the joint ministerial Australian eResearch Coordinating Committee and of the Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council (AeRIC). She was the Chair of the Commonwealth Government funded institutional repository project, ARROW from its inception to its completion (2002-2008), has established an electronic press for her university and leads university-wide research data management policy, planning and coordination. She is a faculty member of the Australasian CAUDIT EduCause Institute, and a member of the Global Research Library 2020 2009 Programming Committee and the Editorial Board of Australian Academic & Research Libraries.

Patricia Renfro is Deputy University Librarian at Columbia and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services which include the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship and Columbia’s Copyright Advisory Office. She is a member of the SPARC Steering Committee. Patricia was a member of the National Information Standards Organization's Circulation Interchange Protocol Committee, and has served in the programs of numerous professional organizations, including the Research Libraries Group and the Association of College & Research Libraries. She has published articles on electronic information technologies and on library services. She has a BA from the University of York, a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship from University College London and an MA from the University of Kentucky.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Prior to joining CNI, Cliff spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Cliff, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Cliff currently serves on the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

Christian Zimmermann is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. After undergraduate studies at Universite de Lausanne, he obtained his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. He started on the web in 1995 with a research thematic website, and by late 1997 he was involved with the newly founded RePEc initiative, where he has taken ever expanding responsibilities. Currently, he runs the RePEc Author Service and the IDEAS/RePEc website, maintains contact with participants and blogs about RePEc.

François Cavalier has been the Director of the Sciences Po Library since 2008. Previously he was the Director of the Lyon1 University Library and Coordinator for the Purchasing Department of COUPERIN, the French national consortium for electronic resources. He is a member of the COUPERIN Board as well as of the ABES Board (National Bibliographical Agency). He has been a member of the LIBER executive board since 2007. François has published several articles about negotiating electronic resources for libraries and has contributed to Les lieux de savoir (Albin Michel 2008).

Wietske Sijtsma has worked for Tilburg University Library since 1995. She was involved in 2 major European projects: Decomate I and II. At the end of the Decomate II project a successful end-user service was launched which provided access to heterogeneous information resources. In 1998 she became the manager of the Digital Services department of the Library. In 2009 she was appointed as controller of the Library & IT Services department. After the departure of Vanessa Proudman, she took over as the NEEO project manager in September 2009.

Vanessa Proudman has been a project manager for over 10 years in local, national and international information network/service projects. Since 2003, she has been the Nereus Programme Manager: a consortium of over twenty academic libraries from leading institutions in the field of economics. She is currently the project manager to the NEEO EU-project which is a subject-based repository service for economics. She was the project manager to the NEEO project until September 2009. She is currently working for Europeana as General Projects Manager. In 2006 and 2007 she conducted a research project for DRIVER on how to better stimulate the population of repositories in Europe, highlighting six good practices. Prior to 2003, she was head of Information and IT at a UN-affiliated organisation
in Vienna.

Paul Ayris has been Director of UCL Library Services since 1997. He is also the UCL Copyright Officer.

Paul is the Vice-President of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche). He is a member of the LIBER and SPARC Europe Boards and chairs the LIBER Conference Programme Committee for their Annual General Conferences. He also chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern Workshops on Scholarly Communication. He is a member of the DRIVER Advisory Board, of the JISC's Journals Working Group, of the SCONUL/CILIP Health Strategy Group, and the RLUK/SCONUL Joint Scholarly Communications Group. He is also a member of the NSF-funded Blue Ribbon Task Force on economically-sustainable digital preservation.

He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies.

Workshop facilitators:

Vanessa Proudman
STREAM 1 — Content recruitment issues

See biography

Benoit Pauwels
STREAM 2 — Infrastructure and interoperability

Benoit is head of the IT department of the Libraries at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is leading the NEEO work package on Interoperability infrastructure and Gateway.

Martin Reid
STREAM 3 — Intellectual property rights

Martin is the team leader for social sciences within UCL Library Services, UCL. He provides the NEEO project with expertise on intellectual property and copyright.

Carl Demeyere
STREAM 4 — Multilingual tools

Carl is Librarian of the FBE, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is leading the NEEO work package on Multilingual issues.

Thomas Place
STREAM 5 — Data sets

Thomas is a senior digital library specialist at Tilburg University. He is leading the NEEO work package on Data sets.

Tim Green
STREAM 6 — Usage statistics

Tim is a member of the LSE ICT Managers Group, and of the Library Leadership Team. He has first hand experience advising on desirable project deliverables and supporting EU and UK funded projects managed by the Library's Project Team.