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Kristine Brancolini, Loyola Marymount University | Janet Gertz, Columbia University | Scott Kehoe, Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System | David Joyall, Northeast Document Conservation Center | Liz Bishoff, BCR | Robin L. Dale, University of California, Santa Cruz | Tom Blake, Boston Public Library | Sam Brylawski, University of California, Santa Barbara | Karen Colbron, WGBH Educational Foundation | Greg Colati, University of Denver | Peter Hirtle, Cornell University | Anne Sauer, Tufts University | Bill Walker, Amigos Library Services | Tom Clareson, PALINET | Roy Tennant, OCLC Programs and Research
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Robin Dale, University of California, Santa Cruz
In June 2007, Robin L. Dale became the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.For more than ten years prior to that, she was a Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, managing collaborative programmatic activities related to the long-term management of digital resources and digitization efforts.
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 2007 report 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, in addition to serving as Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews.She continues to be a regular speaker on digital preservation initiatives, is involved in several digital preservation training initiatives, and has been active in digitization and digital preservation standards and best practice building activities, including the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard, trusted digital repositories work, and various preservation metadata best practices.She now works with some fabulous people at UC Santa Cruz to put this theory work into practice.