Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to post this announcement from ArtSTOR. Please feel free to
forward this announcement to other appropriate discussion groups; but please
pardon any duplication.
Max Marmor
ArtSTOR
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THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
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FOR RELEASE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2002 CONTACT: LISA SCHERMERHORN
Three senior appointments for ArtSTOR at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today three appointments
as part of its ArtSTOR initiative. Effective today, William Ying will be
ArtSTOR's Chief Technology Officer; as of September 25th, Linda Tadic will
be ArtSTOR's Director of Operations, and Tony Gill will be the Director of
Metadata. ArtSTOR is the Mellon Foundation's initiative to develop, "store,"
and distribute digital images and related scholarly materials for
non-commercial educational and scholarly purposes.
As the Director of Operations for ArtSTOR, Ms. Tadic will lead ArtSTOR's
project management work, including the production of images and data, and
implementation of the means by which users will access and use the database.
Working with Mr. Ying, Mr. Gill will lead ArtSTOR's database design and
implementation. Mr. Gill will take the lead role in decisions concerning
structure, standards, access points, and improvement of cataloguing
information. Working with content and image repositories of all kinds, Mr.
Gill will also oversee incorporation of new data into the database,
establishing protocols for enfolding, cleaning, and improving data and
images. As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Ying will be responsible for the
effective development and deployment of hardware, databases, and software to
maximize the quality of services delivered to the ArtSTOR user community.
All three will play key roles in helping to build a community-wide resource,
working closely with ArtSTOR's executive director, James Shulman, with its
chairman, Neil Rudenstine, and with other ArtSTOR staff.
Linda Tadic has recently served as the Manager of the Digital
Library at HBO. Previously, she was the Digital Projects Coordinator at the
Getty Research Institute. Prior to that, she was Director of the Media
Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She
has also worked as a cataloger at the Pacific Film Archive at the University
of California, Berkeley, and at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. As a
consultant for the National Moving Image Database at the American Film
Institute, Tadic also worked at the Museum of Modern Art (New York). In
1998-1999, she was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
(AMIA).
Tadic received her MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley, her MFA
from the University of California, San Diego, and her BFA from the
California Institute of the Arts.
Tony Gill has been a Program Officer at RLG since June 1999, with a remit to
facilitate collaborative activities in the visual arts, museums and natural
history arenas. He was the liaison for the RLG Art & Architecture Group and
the SCIPIO Taskforce. He is active in the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group
and was extensively involved in RLG's Cultural Materials Initiative, a
collaborative international effort to create shared access to high-quality
digital representations of works and artifacts that document culture and
civilization. He came to RLG from the United Kingdom, where he held posts
as ADAM & VADS Programme Leader at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design
(managing the development of the Art, Design, Architecture & Media
Information Gateway and the Visual Arts Data Service), and as Technical
Outreach Manager at the Museum Documentation Association (providing
impartial advice on the best use of information technology for museums and
galleries in the UK). He has also consulted for the Getty Trust, the
University of Bristol/JISC Image Digitisation Initiative, and the Science
Museum.
He has degrees in Communication in Computing (Middlesex University) and
Physics & Philosophy (King's College, London).
William Ying was the CTO/CIO of Fathom Knowledge Inc. Established by
Columbia University in alliance with 13 partners, Fathom offers lifelong
learning and professional development online. Prior to joining Fathom in
June 2000, Mr. Ying was Vice President of Information Systems at Uproar Inc.
Earlier, he held a range of positions in information technology with Chase
Manhattan, CXC Consulting, and the New York Blood Bank, where he developed
of the first bar code-based Blood Processing Information System, which
created a standard for the healthcare industry.
Mr. Ying received his doctorate in Engineering Science from Columbia
University and his BS in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from
Cornell University.
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