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| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
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| Raman Ganguly | University of Vienna | Head of Software Development | Since 2007, the University of Vienna has been using Fedor Fedora as a repository for a wide variety of data. We developed a repository ecosystem called Phaidra, which is open to all members (including students) of the university to manage data for long-term preservation. I work in the central computer center as the technical director of Phaidra, which is an open source project and used by 20 institutions in 5 European countries. Fedora is the base of Phaidra, and we are still using 3.8, but we already have migration plans. As soon as we finished the migration, we will roll out the newer version to the Phaidra community in Austria. I am also involved in data management for research and education at our university and in this role and work closely with the library to support research projects. The experiences are the primary source for improvement of Phaidra. To become a more comprehensive view, I participate in national and international projects for research data management. So I am the technical director of Open Education Austria which is funded by the Austrian ministry. I am the board member of RDA (Research Data Alliance) Austria and co-chair of the interest group RDM (Research Data Management) at COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories). |
| Scott Prater | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Digital Library Analyst | I am the Digital Library Analyst for the University of Wisconsin General Library System, responsible for managing and developing our repository and digital preservation ecosystem. I have been involved with the Fedora community as a "power user" and advocate since 2005, including stints as a committer for the 3.x versions, a documentation writer, a tester for releases, and an early contributor to the Fedora 4 and OCFL efforts. Most recently, I have served on the Advisory Committee for the IMLS-funded "Designing a Migration Path" grant project for mapping out strategies to encourage and support the user community move to Fedora 6 and beyond. My ambition as a leadership member would be to help ensure that the community (actual and potential) has the tools, resources, and most importantly, confidence it needs to deploy and manage Fedora to meet memory institution digital curation and preservation goals now and in the future. |
| Wei Xuan | University of Manitoba | Head, Libraries Systems | I am the Head of Libraries Systems at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. In my role, I work with several support staff to take care of all systems used at the Libraries, which include Fedora, Islandora, DSpace, Dataverse, Alma, Primo, etc. The University of Manitoba Libraries has been a supporter of Fedora for many years. I would like to take this opportunity to get more engaged with the community. I have been deeply involved in numerous projects focused on systems interoperability, data protection and accessibility. As an example, I lead a project to set up the OAI-PMH harvest to integrate Fedora, DSapce and Primo. I attended the Fedora workshop at this year’s Open Repositories conference in Hamburg, Germany. I consistently obtain knowledge from the Fedora community and joining the leadership group will be a great way to give back. Thank you very much for your consideration of my candidacy. |
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