Concurrent 4D:The New Next Things: A Round-up of Industry Initiatives

Leigh Dodds is the Chief Technology Officer for Ingenta,
where he oversees the engineering and technology strategy
for Ingenta’s publisher and library products.

Leigh is an experienced software engineer specializing in
Java, XML, and Semantic Web technologies. As a freelance author
Leigh has also contributed articles and tutorials to sites including
IBM developerWorks and XML.com.

Leigh has presented papers at several technical conferences, and has
acted as technical reviewer for a number of books covering core
XML technologies. His personal website is at http://www.ldodds.com

Geoff Bilder joined CrossRef as Director of Strategic Initiatives in December 2006, prior to which he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd. since October of 2005. He has over 15 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group in 1993 to provide advanced technology consulting on issues related to academic research, teaching and scholarly communication.

He later served as head of R&D in the IT department of Monitor Group, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, MA. From 2002 to 2005, Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer at Ingenta. He has since worked and consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on how emerging social software technologies are likely to affect scholarly and professional researchers.

Tim has been instrumental in the development of Scitation, the hosting service for physical science and engineering publishers. He is project leader of the multi-publisher project to develop a comprehensive set of Unicode-based fonts, the STIX Fonts. He was active in the founding of CrossRef and is Treasurer of ASIDIC.

Karla Hahn has been the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) since May 2005. In this position she provides leadership for the assessment and implementation of selected new models of scholarly communication; encourages and facilitates alliances to advance development of new functionally complete systems of scholarly communication that serve their communities among groups of research institutions, other organizations serving research libraries and their institutions, the for-profit and nonprofit publishing sectors; and works to enhance
outreach efforts to inform the educational and research communities on trends, findings, opportunities, and their impact on promotion and tenure, on teaching and research, and on university budgets.

Prior to joining the ARL staff, Hahn was the Collection Management Team Leader for the University of Maryland Libraries. She worked previously at the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, and at the University of Michigan Libraries.

Hahn has a Ph.D from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, an M.L.S. from Syracuse University, an M.S. from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. Wittenberg University. Her writings include the book, Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context and numerous articles on issues relating to publishing and electronic communication.