Commission members

Commission members

Paul N. Courant – The Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics;Professor of Information; former Provost, University of Michigan

Sarah E. Fraser – Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

Michael F. Goodchild – Director, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, and Professor of Geography,University of California, Santa Barbara

Margaret Hedstrom – Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

Charles Henry – Vice Provost and University Librarian, Rice University

Peter B. Kaufman – President, Intelligent Television

Jerome McGann – The John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia

Roy Rosenzweig – The Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media, and Director, Center forHistory and New Media, George Mason University

John Unsworth (Chair) – Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bruce Zuckerman – Professor of Religion, School of Religion; Director, West Semitic Research andInscriptiFact Projects; Director, Archaeological Research Collection, University of Southern California

Editor

Marlo Welshons – Assistant Dean for Publications and Communications, Graduate School of Library andInformation Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Domestic advisors to the commission

Dan Atkins – Professor, School of Information, and Director, Alliance for Community Technology, University ofMichigan

Christine L. Borgman – Professor and Presidential Chair, Department of Information Studies, Universityof California, Los Angeles

James Herbert – Senior NSF/NEH Advisor, National Science Foundation

Clifford Lynch – Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Deanna Marcum – Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress

Abby Smith – Independent Consultant and former Director of Programs, Council on Library and InformationResources

Steven C. Wheatley – Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies

International advisors to the commission

Sigrun Eckelmann – Programmdirektorin, Organisationseinheit, Bereich WissenschaftlicheInformationssysteme, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Muriel Foulonneau – French Ministry of Culture; Minerva Project; European Commission, Visiting AssistantProfessor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Stefan Gradmann – Stellvertretender Direktor, Regionales Rechenzentrum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg,Germany

Bjørn Henrichsen – Administrative Director and Executive Director, Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig datatjeneste AS(NSD)/Norwegian Social Science Data Services Ltd., Bergen, Norway

Michael Jubb – Director of Policy and Programmes, Arts and Humanities Research Board, Bristol, UnitedKingdom

Jaap Kloosterman – International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Moorman – Senior Policy Advisor / Conseiller principal des politiques, Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Ottawa, Canada

David Robey – Programme Director, ICT in Arts and Humanities Research, Arts and Humanities Research Board

School of Modern Languages, University of Reading, Reading, England

Harold Short – Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, London, UnitedKingdom

Colin Steele – Emeritus Fellow; University Librarian (1980-2002); Director, Scholarly Information Strategies(2002-2003), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Public information-gathering meetings

April 27, 2004, Washington DC

May 22, 2004, Evanston, IL

June 19, 2004, New York, NY

August 21, 2004, Berkeley, CA

September 18, 2004, Los Angeles, CA

October 26, 2004, Baltimore, MD

Testimony and background materials

(External Link)