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| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
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| Chris Awre | University of Hull | Head of Information Services | As a long-term adopter of Fedora (since 2005), and lead advocate for its use in the UK, I have championed the benefits of Fedora as a digital repository platform and supported those exploring its use for a variety of different purposes. I believe in the repository platform being considered as infrastructure rather than application, and seek to refresh how repositories are viewed institutionally to better establish them in this way. Fedora offers the only platform that enables this. I am also a founder member of the Hydra Project in 2008 and recognise the important link between Fedora and the services making use of it to exploit its capabilities as a key element of the future of Fedora. In continuing with a role on the Leadership Group I would look to better understand the specific needs of silver level supporters and represent these as part of the broad Fedora community of users. |
| Stefano Cossu | Art Institute of Chicago | Director of Application Services, Collections | Stefano has been leading the LAKE project, a museum-focused DAMS based on Fedora, since 2014. The AIC has been an early Fedora 4 adopter (since early alpha) and has since then consistently contributed to the improvement of Fedora with use cases, testing and participation to technical and strategic discussion within the Fedora community, as well as with public presentations at museum tech conferences and inter-museum dialogue. This is part of an effort to expand the adoption of Fedora-based systems in the museum sector and to extend the software's capability to handle a broader range of cultural heritage contents. Stefano has started the Midwest Fedora User Group in 2015 and is coordinating its yearly meeting. He is currently serving as a Steering group member and was nominated for the SG chair position in the 2016 elections. |
| Andy Weidner | University of Houston Libraries | Metadata Services Coordinator | In my role as project manager for the Bayou City DAMS project, I am leading a multi-year, cross-departmental effort to implement a Fedora/Hydra repository for the University of Houston Libraries based on Hydra-in-a-Box (Hyku). As an active and founding member of the relatively new South Central States Fedora Users Group, I am excited about contributing to the Fedora community and championing its use in our region. If elected, I will work to represent the interests of new and potential Fedora adopters. |
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