Information Access Seminar

Vivien Petras is a professor of information retrieval at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Howard Besser founded New York University’s MA program in moving image archiving and preservation and is one of the Library of Congress’s “Pioneers of Digital Preservation”.

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.