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Sandra Payette (Sandy)

Executive Director, Fedora Commons
Researcher, Cornell Information Science

Cornell University
payette@cs.cornell.edu
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette

Brief Bio

Sandy is the Executive Director of Fedora Commons, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide sustainable open-source technologies to help individuals and organizations create, manage, publish, share, and preserve digital content upon which we form our intellectual, scientific, and cultural heritage. Fedora Commons evolved from the Fedora Project that Sandy co-directed since 2001.  A collaboration of Cornell University and the University of Virginia, the Fedora Project developed innovative open-source repository software that combines content management, web services, and semantic technologies. The Fedora software has been adopted worldwide to support an array of applications including open-access publishing, scholarly communication, digital libraries, e-science, archives, and education. Fedora is based on Sandy’s original research known as the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora).  

Sandy is also a leader of digital library research and development in the Information Science program at Cornell University.  She plays a unique role that bridges research and innovation with practical applications and open-source software deployment.  Sandy collaborates with scholars and practitioners nationally and internationally.  Her research interests include scholarly communication, digital libraries, digital preservation, information network overlays and web information systems, information modeling, metadata, and policy enforcement for digital content. 

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Research Interests

My research interests include semantic information network overlays for scholarly communication, distributed architectures for digital libraries, information modeling and metadata, digital preservation, and policy enforcement for digital objects.

 

Professional Activities and Presentations

Selected Invitational:

bullet Keynote Address:"A service-oriented approach to e-research, e-scholarship and advanced scholarly publication," VALA 2006, Melbourne, Australia, February 8, 2006, [audio podcast]
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/vala-final.ppt 
bullet Keynote Address: "Beyond Storage: Rethinking the Role of Repositories in Scholarly Communication," DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Digital Repositories, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 11, 2005,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/payette-DELOS.ppt 
bullet Mellon Open Source Retreat, Mellon Foundation, NYC, New York, March 28, 2005,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/fedora-phase2.ppt 
bullet DEF Seminar: Building Digital Libraries with XML and Web Services, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27, 2004, http://defxws.cvt.dk/events/seminar040827/ 
bullet Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Technical Advisory Meeting, NYC, New York, April 30, 2003,  
bullet Ibero American Science and Technology Consortium (ISTEC) Symposium, Campinas, Brazil, March 19, 2003, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/fedora-istec.ppt 
bullet Metadata: Principles, Practices, and Challenges, Cornell University Library Digital Imaging Workshop, Moving Theory to Practice, June 20, 2000, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/metadata-ppc.ppt 
bullet Metadata for Digital Libraries: A Functional Approach, workshop presentation for Cornell University Library Digital Imaging Workshop, October 21, 1998,  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/DI-metadata.ppt
bullet Metadata and Architectural Considerations for Digital Libraries, workshop presentation at Witts University,
Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1997.
bullet Effective Delivery of Archival Materials in Digital Libraries: Key Issues and Requirements, workshop presentation at the National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1997.

Selected Technical Presentations:

bullet Planning for Flexible Integration - Service Oriented Architecture, Open Repositories 2005, APSR, Sydney, Australia
http://www.apsr.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/payette_flexible_integration.ppt
[audio (34MB)]
bullet Update on Fedora Open Source Development,First Annual Fedora Users Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 13-14, 2005, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/fedoraUpdateMay05.ppt 
bullet The Fedora Project, Digital Library Federation Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 17, 2003,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/DLF-Nov2003.ppt 
bullet Project PRISM: Policy-Enforcing Digital Objects, DLI2 All-Projects Meeting, Stratford Upon Avon, England, June 14, 2000, 
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/DLI2-policy.ppt
bullet FEDORA: Interoperability for Digital Objects, Digitization Workshop at Goettingen University Library, Germany, October 5, 1999, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/FEDORA-GDZ.ppt
bullet Digital Library Architecture: A Service-Based Approach, National Library of Norway, November 1998, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/DL-architecture.ppt
bullet Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA), Presentation at Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 21, 1998.
http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/payette/papers/ECDL98/ecdl98.ppt
bullet FEDORA in the CRADDL Framework,  National Library of Norway, November 1998,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/FEDORA-MOA2.ppt
bullet A Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries (Distributed Active Relationships), IEEE ADL98, April 24, 1998 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/adl98/index.htm
bullet Modularization and Interoperability: Dublin Core and the Warwick Framework, 2nd Meeting of the Learning Objects Metadata Group (LOMG), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, November 19, 1997, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/presentations/dcwarwick/dcwarwick-final.ppt

 

Publications


bullet Simeon Warner, Jeroen Bekaert, Carl Lagoze, Xiaoming Liu, Sandy Payette, Herbert Van de Sompel. Pathways: Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories. Accepted for IJDL Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience. Also available as arXiv:cs/0610031.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610031

bullet Herbert Van deSompel, Carl Lagoze, Jeroen Bekaert, Xiaoming Liu, Sandy Payette, Simeon Warner. An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains. D-Lib Magazine, 12(10), 2006.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/vandesompel/10vandesompel.html

bullet Carl Lagoze, Dean Krafft, Sandy Payette, Susan Jesuroga, What is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?, D-Lib Magazine, November 2005, Volume 11 Number 11.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html

bullet Carl Lagoze, Dean Krafft, Sandy Payette, Susan Jesuroga, What is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?, D-Lib Magazine, November 2005, Volume 11 Number 11.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html

bullet Carl Lagoze, Sandy Payette, Edwin Shin, Chris Wilper, Fedora: An Architecture for Complex Objects and their Relationships, International Journal of Digital Libraries, Special Issue on Complex Objects, Springer 2005.
draft available at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0501012

bullet Herbert Van de Sompel, Sandy Payette, John Erickson, Carl Lagoze and Simeon Warner, Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve, D-Lib Magazine, September 2004
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september04/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html

bullet Payette, Sandra and Thornton Staples, The Mellon Fedora Project: Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web Services, European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Rome, Italy, September 2002.
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=kqx3r4w5uxyq23dk

bullet Kenney, A., N. McGovern, P. Botticelli, R. Entlich, C. Lagoze, S. Payette,  Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources, D-Lib Magazine, January 2002
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html

bullet Payette, Sandra and Carl Lagoze, Policy-Carrying, Policy-Enforcing Digital Objects,  Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Portugal, forthcoming Springer, 2000, (Lecture notes in computer science), draft available at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/papers/ecdl2000/pcpe.ps

bullet Payette, Sandra and Carl Lagoze, Value Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual Control Zone, D-Lib Magazine, June 2000, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/payette/06payette.html

bullet Lagoze, Carl and Sandra Payette, Metadata: Principles, Practices, and Challenges, in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Research Libraries Group, Spring 2000. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html

bullet Payette, Sandra, Christophe Blanchi, Carl Lagoze, and Edward Overly, Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: The Cornell/CNRI Experiments, D-Lib Magazine, May 1999. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/payette/05payette.html

bullet Payette, Sandra and Carl Lagoze, Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture, Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 21-23, 1998, Springer, 1998, (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 1513). http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=lcj85y9pg6ng32k6

bullet Lagoze, Carl and Sandra Payette, "An Infrastructure for Open Architecture Digital Libraries," Cornell Computer Science Technical Reports, TR98-1690, June 1998,
http://ncstrl.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/ncstrl.cornell/TR98-1690.

bullet Daniel Jr., Ron, Carl Lagoze, and Sandra Payette, "A Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries," Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries 1998, Santa Barbara, California, April 1998, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/ADL98/dar-adl.html

bullet Payette, Sandra, "Persistent Identifiers in the Digital Terrain," RLG DigiNews, Volume 2, Number 2, April 15, 1998, http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews22.html

bullet Lagoze, Carl, David Fielding, and Sandra Payette, "Making Global Digital Libraries Work: Collection Services, Connectivity Regions, and Collection Views", ACM Digital Libraries '98, June 1998.

bullet Payette, S.D. and Rieger, O.Y., "Supporting Scholarly Inquiry: Incorporating Users in the Design of the Digital Library," Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 1998.

bullet Payette, Sandra D. and Rieger, Oya Y., "Z39.50: The User's Perspective," D-Lib Magazine, April 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april97/cornell/04payette.html