About the Authors 379 About the Authors Yin-Leng Theng completed her PhD in 1997 on addressing the “lost in hyperspace” problem in hypertext. She then joined Middlesex University (Lon- don) as a lecturer (1998-2001). Currently, she is an assistant professor at the School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). She teaches on Information Studies Master’s Programme: Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. She was awarded two research grants from EPSRC (UK) during her four years of teaching at Middlesex University. Recently, she was also awarded a NTU grant to work on usability techniques on the Web and mobile environments. Schubert Foo is professor and vice dean of the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received a BSc, MBA and PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is a chartered engineer, chartered IT professional, fellow of the British Computer Society and fellow of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK. He is the author of more than 120 publications in the fields of Internet technology, multimedia technology, multilingual information retrieval, digital libraries, information and knowledge management. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Information Science, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, International Yearbook of Library and Information Management and International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce. * * * Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. 380 About the Authors David Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Canterbury where he studied as a Commonwealth Scholar. Since moving to Waikato in 1996, he has developed his interest in digital media, with an emphasis on music. He is co-author with Ian Witten of the book, How to Build a Digital Library, and has published in the areas of image processing, music information retrieval, digital libraries, data compression, and text mining. David has also worked as a research engineer for Thorn EMI and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medalist in computer science. Stefan J. Boddie joined the New Zealand Digital Library research project at the University of Waikato as a research programmer (1997). He developed several of the tools described in this chapter and has provided core programming skills and technical support for Greenstone over several years. Recently he founded DL Consulting Ltd. to provide commercial support for digital library activities around the world. Christine L. Borgman is professor and presidential chair in Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a co- principal investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS) and for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) project, both funded by the National Science Foundation. She is the author of more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Informa- tion Science book of the year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Raju Buddharaju is chief information/technical officer of the National Library Board (Singapore) that operates public libraries, reference libraries, and aca- demic libraries and provides Library services to various organizations. He specializes in information management and information technology areas, focus- ing specifically on return on IT investment and architectures, development of IT investment strategies and IT portfolio management. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronics and communications (1971) from Andhra University, and Master of Technology degree in electrical engineering with computer sciences (1974) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, PMI, ITMA, IKMS and SCS. Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. About the Authors 381 Mei-Yee Chan is a recent graduate of the MSc (information studies) programme from Nanyang Technological University. She received her BBus from Nanyang Technological University in 1995. She is currently working in the Knowledge Management Office of the Department of Computer and Information Systems at Singapore Polytechnic. Chao-chen Chen is a professor of the Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University. She received a PhD in Department of Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University (December 1994), and an MA from the same university. Currently, she is the secretary-general of the Library Association of China (in Taiwan), and consultant of the Council for Cultural Affairs. Dr. Chen has conducted many research projects and is interested in several research areas, including digital libraries, library automation, information organization and metadata, multimedia, electronic publishing, and electronic learning. Hsinchun Chen ([email protected]), McClelland Professor of MIS at the Eller College of the University of Arizona (USA) and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999), received a PhD in information systems from New York University (1989), an MBA in finance from SUNY-Buffalo (1985), and a BS in management science from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan. He is the author of more than 120 articles covering medical informatics, homeland security, semantic retrieval, search algorithms, knowledge manage- ment, and Web computing in leading information technology publications. Hsueh-hua Chen is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the National Taiwan University. She received an EdD in higher education and an MEd in educational media and librarianship from University of Georgia, and a BA in library science from the National Taiwan University. She is the author of more than 40 articles covering digital libraries, metadata, information organization and knowledge management. She has also served on the editorial board of many library and information science related journals. Currently, Dr. Chen is heavily involved in fostering digital library and knowledge management research and education in Taiwan. She was a PI of the National Science Council-funded Digital Museum Initiative project (1998-2001) and has continued to receive research grant from NSC for National Digital Archives Program (2002-2006) and many research projects. Sally Jo Cunningham is a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). Her research focuses on user studies through Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. 382 About the Authors quantitative transaction log analysis of digital library usage and qualitative studies of information behavior; her particular interest is in user needs and user behavior analysis for music digital libraries. She received her PhD in computer science, with minors in library science and Asian studies, from Louisiana State Univer- sity. Stephen Downie is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois (USA) (UIUC). He is director of the Mellon and NSF-funded International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), also at UIUC. Professor Downie is also principal investigator on the Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems (HUMIRS) project. He is also project leader on the Music Information Retrieval Bibliography Project (MIRBIB) (available at http://music-ir.org/ research_home.html). Information about Professor Downie’s Mellon-funded MIR/MDL Evaluation Frameworks Project can be found at http://music-ir.org/ evaluation/. Dr. Downie holds a B.A. (music theory and composition), a Masters of Library and Information Science and a Ph.D. in library and information science, all earned at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Ismail Fahmi is a PhD student in Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received his master’s degree from the same department in 2004, and his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia in 1997. He was the principal investigator of the research project that developed the Ganesha Digital Library (GDL) software and was the chairman of the IndonesiaDLN (2000-2002). His main research interests include digital libraries, machine learning and knowledge extraction. He is currently working on automatic term recognition using linguistic knowledge. Edward A. Fox, Director of NDLTD, is a professor of computer science at Virginia Tech (USA). There, he also directs the Internet Technology Innovation Center and Digital Library Research Laboratory. He is a member and former chairman of the NSDL Policy Committee, and serves on the OAI Steering Committee. He is chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Eibe Frank is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He obtained a diploma from the University of Karlsruhe and a PhD from the University of