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Er, sorry, bio's updated now: http://onebiglibrary.net/bio Hoping to make it worth your time and attention. -dc On Oct 4, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Anjanette Young wrote: > Congratulations and thank you to Dan Chudnov and Bethany Nowviskie for > agreeing to be the keynote speakers at #code4lib 2012. > > Dan. > Daniel Chudnov is a librarian and programmer in the Office of Strategic > Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Previously, he worked as a software > developer at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, and contributed to > several free software projects for libraries while working at the MIT > Libraries and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University > School of Medicine. He is a frequent speaker and author on technology and > the importance of free software in libraries, and he writes a monthly column > for Computers in Libraries magazine. He started the oss4lib weblog and > listserv in 1999 to promote the use of free software in our community. > > Bethany. > "Bethany helps shape UVA’s support for digital scholarship by running a > Library department that includes the Scholars’ Lab and a crack R&D team > devoted to scholarly interfaces. The SLab combines the services and > resources of UVA Library’s former GeoStat and Etext Centers with end-user > assistance from ITC’s Research Computing Support group. She is Associate > Director of the Scholarly Information Institute (SCI), a Mellon funded think > tank. Additionally, she is current Vice President of the Association for > Computers and the Humanities (ACH), a member of the MLA's Committee on > Information Technology, and is Senior Advisor to NINES, for which she > designed the Collex tool. Her doctorate is in English, and she has worked in > the digital humanities as a designer, manager, and editor since 1995. > Bethany's own research lies in the intersection of traditional interpretive > methods with innovative social and algorithmic tools." > > Looking forward to seeing you all in Seattle. > > --Anj