About the Contributors

221 About the Contributors Jesús Tramullas, Professor, Department of Information Science (Univ. of Zaragoza). PhD. Master in Computer Management from the Institute of Enterprise Directors IDE / CESEM. He has directed and developed funded research projects on information management in organizations. Coordinator of the Thematic Network on Digital Documents (founded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 2004-2007). Member of the Information Resources Management in Organizations Research Group. Director of Digital Information Workshops and Summer Courses (Univ. of Zaragoza in Jaca, 2001-2010). Senior member of the Association for Computer Machinery ACM, IEEE Education Chapter, and Inter- national Society for Knowledge Organization ISKO. Author of numerous works on the implementation and development of computer tools in information management and librarianship. Some authored books are World Wide Web: Fundamentals, Navigation, and Languages on the Global Information Network (1996), Introduction to Documatica (1997), Information Retrieval on the Internet (2001), Libre Software for Information Services (2006), and Trends in Digital Documents (2006). Lecturer and speaker at numerous conferences, courses, and seminars. His weblog is http://tramullas.com. Piedad Garrido is an assistant professor in the Department of Computers and Systems Engineer- ing at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. She graduated in Computer Science and Documentation at the Technical University of Valencia in 1997 and 1999, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Documentation from the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2008. Her current research interests include intelligent transportation systems, virtual agents, ontologies, traffic safety, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. She is member of the IEEE. * * * Elsa Barber is Subdirector of the National Library of Argentina (“Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina”). Ex-Director of the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires 1994/2002 and 2005/March 2009. “Licenciada en Bibliotecología y Docu- mentación” (Graduate in Library Science). Master in Digital Documentation. She is Professor of the Department, having tenure in the information organization area. She is Head of the UBACYT research project “Web 2.0 Functionalities in User Interface of Latin American Web OPACs” and participates in other research projects in foreign universities. She has given training courses for librarians in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Uruguay. She has done consulting jobs in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama through the FO-AR Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. She has taken part in congresses, seminars, and meetings on library and information science, whether as lecturer or About the Contributors in panels in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. She is a member of the editorial com- mittees of important national and international journals. She has written books, articles, and presented papers in national and international scientific meetings. Filipe Manuel dos Santos Bento. Academic highlights: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer- ing (University of Aveiro [UA]), 1988 - 1993; European Postgraduate Course on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece), 1992 - 1993; MSc in Electronic Information Management (TRAIN-ISS | University of Sheffield, UK), 1994 - 1995; European Space Agency [ESA] Industrial Placement (European Space Research Institute [ESRIN], Frascati, Rome, Italy), 1995; Information and Communication in Digital Platforms Doctorate Candidate (PhD joint Degree by UA and University of Porto, Portugal; Thesis Title: “Information Integration, User Participation, and Communities in Information Discovery”), 2008. Career focus (UA): Information Manager / Computer Science Specialist; Ex Libris ALEPH’s Manager and team leader (University’s Libraries Management System); Training division: Head of division from 1998 to 2004; President of several groups for infor- matics equipment acquisition and jury member for the recruitment of A-Class Technicians; Research and Development projects in the area of Digital Libraries, search and information retrieval using expert systems; RUBi, Portuguese Universities’ Libraries and Information Network: Installing Committee / coordinator of several working groups, Feb 1998 - Oct 1999. Current activity: PhD Researcher (UA / CETAC.Media Research Lab), grant by FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; President of USE.pt Steering Committee (Ex Libris Users’ National Association), 2011-2012. For further information and professional Web presence sites, please consult http://about.filipebento.pt/. Nancy Blanco is “Bibliotecaria en Bibliotecología y Documentación” (Graduate in Library Science). She is Professor in the Information Organization area of the Library and Information Science School, at the University of Buenos Aires; researcher of UBACYT research project “Web 2.0 Functionalities in User Interface of Latin American Web OPACs.” She has given training courses for librarians in Ar- gentina. She is also co-author of articles in specialized journals and of contributions to congresses on library and information science. Elena Corradini, MA/MSC IS is a public librarian working in a small town library in Northern Italy. She holds a MA/MSc degree in International Information Science, jointly awarded in 2004 by the University of Parma (Italy) and Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Her dissertation topic was “Teens and Library Services: Experiences, Expectations, Perspectives.” Since then, she has been invited to hold lectures at Parma University on research methods and information literacy for the same Master and also the DILL Erasmus Mundus Master (Digital Libraries Learning). Besides continuing her working experience, she is currently also a PhD student enrolled in the course “Knowledge Society and Information Transfer” (University of Zadar, Croatia, in cooperation with other international faculties). Her research interests range from qualitative research methods to personal information management, human information behavior, information literacy, and in particular, digital literacy of youth. She is an active member of various professional associations like IFLA (Secretary of the Literacy and Reading Section since 2009) and AIB (Italian Library Association, Regional President of the Trentino-South Tyrol Chapter, 2011-2014), and, among others, also a member of ALA, ASIS&T, and BIB (Berufsverband Information und Bibliothek, Germany). 222 About the Contributors Jennifer Lee Eidelman graduated with distinction from the University of Cape Town’s library school in 1994. She worked at the University of Cape Town Libraries’ cataloguing department for some time before moving to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology as a Departmental Librarian. This post was maintained for 13 years before moving to the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library at the University of Cape Town. Since then, she has held the position of Information Services Librarian/Subject Librarian for various Science Departments. Currently, these include Zoology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Statistical Sciences, and Geological Sciences. Jesse Prabawa Gozali is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include multimedia and user interfaces. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD thesis on event photo stream segmentation. Carolina Gregui is “Licenciada en Bibliotecología y Documentación” (Graduate in Library Science). She is Professor in the Information Organization area of the Library and Information Science School, at the University of Buenos Aires; Researcher of UBACYT Research Project “Web 2.0 Functionalities in User Interface of Latin American Web OPACs.” She has taken part of congresses on library and information science in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, and France. She is also co-author of several articles in national and international journals. Myung-Ja “MJ” Han is a Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois. Prior to this position, she worked for the Illinois Harvest Project as a Visiting Metadata Librarian. Her main responsibilities consist of developing application profiles for digital col- lections, creating metadata for digital resources, and evaluating and enhancing cataloging and metadata workflows. Her research interests include interoperability of metadata, especially using OAI-PMH and Semantic Web technologies, relationships between collection description and item level metadata, and issues on bibliographic control in digital library environment. She has published papers in Library Trends, Library Resources and Technical Services, and the Journal of Library Metadata, on metadata quality and bibliographic control. She has presented her research findings at the American Library Association conferences, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, and CONTENTdm User Group meetings. She is actively involved in CONTENTdm and Dublin Core user groups. Min-Yen Kan (BS; MS; PhD Columbia Univ.) is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and a Member of the IEEE. Currently,

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