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NameOrganizationTitle/RolePersonal Statement
Joanna DiPasqualeVassar College LibrariesHead of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services

 I have worked with Fedora since 2011, when I encouraged my institution, Vassar College Libraries, to adopt it as our repository platform.  We have used Fedora in conjunction with Islandora as our object delivery system, and I have been the lead developer, application manager (with help from Discovery Garden), project manager, and more to ensure that objects are created, stored, and delivered to researchers in the Vassar community and beyond.  As the Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services at Vassar, a small liberal arts college (LAC), I know well that the ability to leverage the flexibility and extensibilty of Fedora is paramount, as we work to ingest a variety of types of content generated from our ever-growing digital library and digital scholarship programs.  However, it is also important that managing, growing, and taking advantage of new features of Fedora is possible for smaller organizations like mine.  I work with many LAC partners through the Islandora Collaboration Group, and we feel keenly when system facets like migration paths, content modeling, or workflow procedures meet our more limited resources.  I believe that I can effectively represent these interests in balance within the larger picture of making Fedora the most effective and durable repository system possible for libraries and other cultural heritage organizations.  I would be honored to serve as part of the Fedora Leadership Group.

Silver Members

NameOrganizationTitle/RolePersonal Statement
Chris AwreUniversity of HullHead of Information ServicesAs 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 CossuArt Institute of ChicagoDirector of Application Services, Collections
Andy WeidnerUniversity of Houston LibrariesMetadata Services CoordinatorIn 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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