Murtha Baca (mbaca@getty.edu)
Murtha Baca is Head of the Getty Vocabulary Program and the Digital Resource Management Department at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Italian language and literature from UCLA. Murtha has published extensively on data standards and controlled vocabularies for indexing and accessing cultural heritage information, especially with a view to providing end-user access to images and related data on line. In 2002 she edited Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Publications), and she is a member of the Visual Resources Association editorial team responsible for Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (ALA Publications, 2006). Murtha has taught many workshops and seminars on metadata, visual resources cataloging, and thesaurus construction at museums, universities, and other organizations in North and South America and in Europe; she teaches a graduate seminar on metadata and controlled vocabularies in the School of Information Studies at UCLA.

Tony Gill (tg@tonygill.com)
http://www.tonygill.com/tonygill.html
Tony Gill is the Director of the Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory at the Center for Jewish History in New York, where he is responsible for setting up and running a facility to digitize the diverse collections of the Center's five partner institutions and build a trusted digital repository to preserve and provide access to the resulting digital library. Prior to his current position, Tony was employed as Director of Metadata and Cataloguing for ARTstor at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York, Program Officer for the Research Libraries Group in Mountain View, California, ADAM and VADS Programme Leader at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey, and Technical Outreach Manager for the Museum Documentation Association in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He has degrees in Communication in Computing (Middlesex University) and Physics and Philosophy (King's College, London), and is the author of a number of publications on the applications of information technology in the arts and humanities.

Anne J. Gilliland (gilliland@gseis.ucla.edu), http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/swetland/
Anne J. Gilliland is a Professor in the Department of Information Studies and also the Moving Image Archive Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA, and currently Chair of the Department of Information Studies and Director of the Center for Information as Evidence. She holds a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan, directs and teaches in the graduate specialization in Archival Studies, and has published widely in the areas of electronic records administration, development and evaluation of archival information systems, and archival education.

 

Mary S. Woodley (mary.woodley@csun.edu), http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/
Mary S. Woodley the Collection Development Coordinator, University Library, California State University, Northridge, holds a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology and a master's degree in Library and Informat ion Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is responsible for collection development and bibliographic instruction for art, anthropology, and general non-fiction literature . Since 2001 Mary has served as the Digital Archives Librarian. Her publications include an article, with Richard W. Lindstrom, is "Irresistible Metadata: Guidelines for Usage of Dublin Core Metadata in Online Exhibitions" in Spectra 26:1 (Spring 1999), 19-31; Crosswalks: the Path to Universal Access? in Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata ; "A Digital Library Project on a Shoestring" in Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 26 (2002) 199-206. She is formerly the Chair of the Networked Resources and Metadata Committee, a division committee of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services of the American Library Association. She continues to serve on the ALCTS taskforce which published Differences Between, Changes Within: Guidelines on When to Create a New Record. She is the chair of the Dublin Core Documentation Working Group. Most recently she was elected to a 3-year term as a member-at-large for the ALCTS CCS Executive Committee.