Liz Bishoff

Liz Bishoff is the Director of Digital and Preservation Services for BCR in Aurora, Colorado. Previously she was Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries and Head of the Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado, Boulder; Vice President for Digital Collection Services at OCLC; and former Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program. Liz has worked with libraries and museums in several states including Alabama, Kansas, South and North Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, and Tennessee on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives.  Liz led the development of collaborative best practices in metadata, including the Western States Metadata Dublin Core Best Practices.

Liz has been a member of the IMLS/NISO task force for A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. She has been a member of the American Library Association’s Council, the ALA Board, and is a past Treasurer of the American Library Association.

Robin L. Dale

Robin L. Dale has recently become the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Until early June 2007, she was a program officer in RLG Programs, a part of OCLC’s Office of Programs & Research, for a year.  Prior to the combination of RLG and OCLC, she was a program officer and Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, as well as the Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews for nine years.

From 2005 to early 2007, Robin was also the Project Director of the Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Archives project, a Mellon-funded activity to develop processes to audit and certify digital archives and repositories. She co-chaired the RLG National Archives and Records Administration Digital Repository Certification task force, which produced the recently released Trusted Repositories, Audit and Certification: A Checklist (TRAC). For the last ten years, her work has focused on digital preservation, preservation metadata, data curation, and digitization. 

Tyler O. Walters

Tyler O. Walters is the Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center. Tyler is also a co-Principal Investigator with the MetaArchive Cooperative, one of the eight original digital preservation partnerships with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.metaarchive.org) of the Library of Congress. Currently, his committee appointments include serving on the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Sustainability Committee and chairing the Host Committee for the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories in Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-21, 2009. Tyler was also a member of the 2006 ARL/NSF workgroup that produced the report "To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Data Sets in Science and Engineering" (www.arl.org/bm~doc/digdatarpt.pdf). He is a frequent conference speaker and author and is a past recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Ernst Posner Award for best article in the American Archivist (1998).