Sandra Payette (Sandy)
Executive Director,
Fedora Commons
Researcher, Cornell Information Science
Cornell University
payette@cs.cornell.edu
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette
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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Brief bio
Research Interests
Professional and Presentations
Publications
About Fedora
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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.
Selected Invitational:
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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 |
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Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Technical Advisory Meeting, NYC, New York, April 30, 2003, |
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Metadata and Architectural Considerations for
Digital Libraries, workshop presentation at Witts University,
Johannesburg, South
Africa, September 1997. |
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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:
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |