Meet the DLRG
The following MIT staff are members of the Digital Library
Research Group:
MacKenzie Smith, Associate
Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
Ben Hyde, SIMILE Project Manager
Stefano Mazzocchi,
Research Scientist
Richard Rodgers, DSpace
Federation Systems Manager
Larry Stone, DSpace
Programmer
Adjuncts:
William Reilly (FACADE)
Rob Wolfe (PLEDGE)
Ann Whiteside (FACADE)
MacKenzie Smith, Associate
Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
617.253.8184 | Building E25-131 | kenzie at mit.edu
MacKenzie oversees the MIT Libraries' use of technology and
manages its digital library research program. Her research
agenda focuses on Semantic Web applications to digital libraries,
Grid applications in digital libraries, and developing open
source communities in the digital library domain.
She is currently acting as the project
director at MIT for DSpace, MIT's collaboration
with HP Labs to develop an open source
digital repository for scholarly research
material in digital formats. She was
formerly the Digital Library Program
Manager in the Harvard University Library's
Office for Information Systems, where
she managed the design and implementation
of the Library Digital Initiative there.
She also held positions in the library
IT departments at Harvard and the University
of Chicago. She holds a BA from the
University of Washington and an MA
in Library Science from the University
of Chicago. Her research interests
are in applied technology for libraries
and academia, and digital libraries
and archives in particular
Ben Hyde, SIMILE
Project Manager
617.253.0770 | Building E25-131 | bhyde at mit.edu
Stefano Mazzocchi,
Research Scientist, SIMILE Project
857.222.9360 | Building E25-131 | stefanom at mit.edu
Stefano is a Research Scientist on the SIMILE Project, or
Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike
Environments. A joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT
Libraries, and MIT CSAIL, SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability
among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata,
and services. For more information on this project, and Stefano's
role, see the Simile Project website, http://simile.mit.edu/.
The Simile wiki offers an overview of the project and describes
how it relates to other DLRG team efforts: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/WhatIsSimile.
Personal website: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/
Whitepapers and presentations: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/papers/
Richard Rodgers
617.253.1663 | Building E25-131 | rrodgers at mit.edu
Richard manages the DSRB project, which is funded by the
US National Archives and Records Administration through the
NSF to collaborate with the University of California, San
Diego Libraries, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center on
an investigation of using data grid technology for content
storage, as implemented by the SDSCs SRB open source storage
management technology.
Larry Stone, DSpace
Programmer
617.253.1459 | Building E25-131 | lcs at mit.edu | PGP
Public Key
PGP key fingerprint: 5CAC 8BE7 A95A D8F3 E202 1F67 9694 DBF4 710D 1062
Larry is a developer on the DSpace software platform. He
is also working on the CWSpace and PLEDGE projects.
DSpace project website: http://www.dspace.org/
CWSpace project website: http://cwspace.mit.edu/
Adjuncts:
William Reilly,
Technology Project Manager, Systems
and Technology Services
617.253.5716 | Building E25-131 | wreilly at mit.edu
Active in FACADE and other projects.
Robert Wolfe,
Metadata Specialist, Cataloging and Metadata Services
617.253.0604
| Building 14E-210B | rwolfe at mit.edu
Active in PLEDGE project.
Ann Whiteside,
Head, Rotch
Library of Architecture & Planning
617.258.5594 | Building 7-238 | awhites
at mit.edu
Active in FACADE project.
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