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Dr. Martin Halbert
Dr. Martin Halbert

Dr. Martin Halbert is is Director of Digital Programs and Systems at the Emory University Libraries. Martin directs all digital library services and systems functions for the Emory General Libraries. He is responsible for researching and leading library information technology initiatives, including all digital scholarly communication projects of the MetaScholar Initiative (http://www.MetaScholar.org). He supervises a division of the Woodruff library that includes librarians, scholarly communication analysts, and systems programmers/support staff. Martin provides a leadership role within the library for computer systems operations, development, planning, and integration. He is the principal investigator for research projects totaling $4M. He recently established the MetaArchive Digital Preservation Network (http://www.MetaArchive.org), a consortium of 6 universities acting in concert with the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Preservation Program. He coordinates library computer operations with all library departments as well as representing the library on major campus computing committees.

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[edit] Background

Martin has a Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas, and a B.A. from Rice University. Martin has worked in library administration and systems positions at Emory University and Rice University. He was an ALA/USIA Library Fellow stationed in Estonia assisting with the automation of the Tartu University Library. He has also worked as a consultant for the IBM Corporation, and as a programmer for the University of Texas. He is married and has three children.

[edit] Interests

The following is a brief description by Martin of his main interests.

  • Digital Libraries: This is my primary professional interest and responsibility. I am interested in both particular digital libraries that are exemplars of content development and various digital library technologies. The best, most well-rounded example of a digital library is Wikipedia, which has overturned almost everyone's notion of how to create and organize digital content. Our own Digital Innovations website is itself an instance of the Mediawiki software. Another example of a great digital library is my friend Dr. Greg Crane's Perseus Digital Library, which is outstanding in terms of the quality of its scholarship and technology.
  • Science Fiction: I am a great aficionado of the SF genre, and have been influenced and inspired by SF all my life. Some of my favorite works are the Dune series by Frank Herbert, a tremendously rich body of work that explored interwoven themes of ecology, religion, and politics, and the Known Space Series by Larry Niven, a very compelling example of classic "hard science fiction". The VALIS Trilogy by Philip Dick is probably the most significant spiritual SF that I've read. Going back a little further in history, I personally consider Jules Verne and H.G. Wells the fathers of SF (aspersions cast on 20K Leagues Under the Sea are virtually all associated with the deliberately inaccurate British translations by Lewis Page Mercier of Verne's works that have persisted for so long). In film, I am a great fan of the Matrix Series by the Wachowski brothers, which is a beautifully layered exploration of the deepest and most pervasive themes in religion, philosophy, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence (and, obviously, these movies are a kick-ass kung-fu action series as well). I also confess to being a die-hard, lifelong Star Trek fan.
  • Space Exploration: The "Final Frontier" is simultaneously a real and metaphorical frontier. It poses interlinked questions of both technological advancement and social mobilization. Some triumphs in space exploration that I am intrigued by include the Cassini-Huygens Mission which was an amazing accomplishment in terms of peaceful international collaboration, the NEAR Asteroid Mission, the first and most fascinating example of systematic exploration of a minor planet, the Voyager Program, the most incredible saga of distance planetary exploration that any of us are likely to live through, and of course the Apollo Program, the greatest example of human exploration in history which literally touched the mythic side of humanity's psyche, the Moon.
  • Philosophy: My undergraduate major was philosophy and I am still fascinated by it. I studied under several faculty at Rice University that influenced me, including Konstantin Kolenda, Larry Temkin, and Mark Kulstad. I had the opportunity to take a course from Derek Parfit which was extremely thought-provoking and which I have been mulling over ever since. Some of my favorite philosophers were Josiah Royce and Friedrich Nietzsche, although I can find something interesting in almost any philosopher's work.

[edit] Selected Publications

[edit] Doctoral Dissertation

New Models for Research Libraries in the Digital Age (excerpt), 2006, dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts.

[edit] Papers and Articles

  • “Combined Searching of Web and OAI Digital Library Resources,” (with Aaron Krowne) in Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004 Proceedings, pp. 343-344.
  • Proceedings, Workshop on Applications of Metadata Harvesting in Scholarly Portals, Findings from the MetaScholar Projects: AmericanSouth and MetaArchive. October 24, 2003. (Editor and contributor) MetaScholar Initiative, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. URL: http://www.metascholar.org/pdfs/MetaScholarFindingsProceedings.pdf
  • “Findings from the Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative,” (with Joanne Kaczmarek and Kat Hagedorn) in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003, Traugott Koch, Ingeborg Sølvberg (Eds.), Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2769 Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-40726-X. pp. 58-69.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative: AmericanSouth.Org and MetaArchive.Org,” Library Hi Tech, Vol. 21 No. 2 (2003).
  • "Lessons from the Information Commons Frontier," Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 25, No. 2 (1999), pp. 90-91.
  • “Tartu University Library Automation Plan 1995-1997.” Report prepared as a planning aid for library automation projects at Tartu University, Estonia, as part of an ALA/USIA fellowship project. Submitted: December 1994.
  • "Integrating Access to Library Information Resources through Networked Systems: Issues, Trends, and Project Examples," in Proceedings: Libraries and Scientific Communication Conference, Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University 1994.
  • "Database Visualization and Future Innovations in Information Retrieval," in Imaginative Futures: Proceedings of the 1993 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, June 17-19, 1993, Reno, Nevada, edited by Milton T. Wolf and Daryl F. Mallett, San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press 1994.
  • "The Challenge of Multimedia Networking," Public Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), pp. 18-23. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v4/n1/halbert.4n1
  • "Knowbot Explorations in Similarity Space," in Thinking Robots, An Aware Internet, and Cyberpunk Librarians: The 1992 LITA President's Program, edited by R. Bruce Miller and Milton T. Wolf, Chicago: Library and Information Technology Association, 1992. URL: http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Halbert.html
  • “Artificial Intelligence, Libraries, and Information Retrieval,” Public Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1992), pp. 21-28. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v3/n2/halbert.3n2
  • "Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries," Public Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1991), pp. 164-170. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/halbert.2n1
  • "Hypermedia, Interactive Multimedia, and Virtual Realities," Public Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1990), pp. 71-80. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v1/n3/halbert.1n3
  • "Multimedia: the Agony and the Ecstasy for Information Professionals," CD-ROM Professional, Vol. 3, No. 5 (September 1990), pp. 6-9.
  • "Public-Access Computer Systems and the Internet," Public Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1990), pp. 71-80. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v1/n2/halbert.1n2

[edit] Presentations as of 2005

  • “The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture,” 2005 DLF Spring Forum, San Diego, CA, 14 April 2005.
  • “The OCKHAM Project and Digital Library Services Registries” (Presented with Jeremy Frumkin), Joint Meeting of the NSDL OCKHAM Project and JISC IESR Project, Manchester, England, 4 March 2005.
  • “The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network” (Presented with Robert McDonald), Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partnerships Kick-Off Meeting, Washington, D.C., 12 January 2005.
  • “The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network” (Presented with Robert McDonald, Beth Nicol, and Vicky Reich), CNI Fall 2004 Task Force Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 7 December 2004.
  • “Music of Social Change: Museum-Library Collaboration with Metadata Systems,” MCN 2004, Minneapolis, MN, 12 November 2004.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative: Collaborative Archival Metadata Systems,” Society of Georgia Archivists, Morrow, GA, 4 November 2004.
  • “Information Commons: Focusing on the Creation of New Spaces that Serve to Accommodate Technologies,” 2004 NITLE-PKAL Workshop on New Learning Spaces, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 23 October 2004.
  • “The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture,” Symposium on Open Access & Digital Preservation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2 October 2004.
  • “Antipareskevidekatriaphobia (or ‘Why we are smarter than the United States Navy’) Technological and Operational Aspects of Digital Libraries, Findings from the MetaScholar Initiative,” PASCAL Digital Library Forum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 13 August 2004.
  • “New Strategies for Long-Term Preservation Using LOCKSS,” ALCTS-SS Program, ALA Annual, Orlando, FL, 26 June 2004.
  • “The Music of Social Change: Library/Museum Collaboration through the OAI-PMH” (Presented with Katherine Skinner), SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 6 May 2004.
  • “Advancing Scholarly Communication through Library Research Projects,” EduCATE Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 23 March 2004.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative: Library/Museum Collaboration via the OAI-PMH,” WebWise 2004 Conference, Chicago, IL, 3 March 2004.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative and the MetaCombine Project,” Keyword Extraction Workshop, King’s College, London, England, 5 February 2004.
  • “NSDL Projects Update: the OCKHAM Library Network,” DLF Fall Forum, Albuquerque, NM, 19 November 2003.
  • “Why do Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe? An Overview of the LOCKSS Project,” DLF Fall Forum, Albuquerque, NM, 17 November 2003.
  • “Findings from the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth Projects,” Workshop on Applications of Metadata Harvesting in Scholarly Portals. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 24 October 2003.
  • “Findings from the Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative,” 2003 European Conference on Digital Libraries, Trondheim, Norway, 18 August 2003.
  • “OCKHAM: Fostering DL Interoperability through Reference Models and Lightweight Protocol Networks,” Indo-US Workshop on Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability, Washington, D.C., Monday, 23 June 2003.
  • “Experiences Using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)” (Presented with Chris Powell, Stephen Schwartz, Joanne Kaczmarek, and David Seaman), Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, Athens, GA, 1 June 2003.
  • “The Open Archives Initiative and the AmericanSouth Project: Collaboration to Improve Access to Digital Resources,” SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1 May 2003.
  • “OAI Metadata Harvesting & Institutional Repositories,” CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, D.C., 29 April 2003.
  • “The Emory Infocommons: Services, Resources, Facilities,” ACRL 2003 Conference, Charlotte, NC, 12 April 2003.
  • “AmericanSouth.Org: Online Scholarship and Metadata Harvesting,” EduCATE Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 25 March 2003.
  • “When the Library Died,” ILA Critical Moments Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 28 March 2003.
  • “Transmediation Continued,” ePublishing Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 21 February 2003.
  • “Open Source Software and the Network Society” (Presentation to ILA 790 Class), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 7 February 2003.
  • “The Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative: Major Findings from Participating Institutions,” DLF Fall 2002 Forum, Seattle, WA, 5 November 2002.
  • “Metadata Gardening: Metadata Aggregation Networks and the MetaScholar Initiative,” Access 2002 Conference, Windsor, Ontario, 22 October 2002. URL: http://zeus.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/access2002/martin.ppt
  • “Scholarly Design Team (SDT) Meeting Presentation,” (AmericanSouth SDT Meeting) Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 15 October 2002.
  • “Metadata Aggregation Networks and the Open Archives Initiative,” LITA National Forum 2002, Houston, TX, 12-13 October 2002.
  • “Lightweight Reference Models and the OCKHAM Framework,” European Conference on Digital Libraries 2002, Rome, Italy, 16 September 2002.
  • “The Open Archives Initiative and the MetaScholar Projects,” Society for American Archivists 2002 Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, 20 August 2002.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative: Harvesting, Organization and Discovery Services built on the OAI PMH,” Joint Information Systems Committee / Coalition for Networked Information 2002 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 June 2002.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative: Experiments with New Forms of Scholarly Communication,” Joint Information Systems Committee / National Science Foundation 2002 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 25 June 2002.
  • “AmericanSouth and MetaArchive: Goals, Contrasts, and Details,” MetaScholar All-Project Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 18 June 2002.
  • “The Emory Information Commons: Reflections,” Panel Program: “The Information Commons: Building Design and Service Planning for Effective Implementation,” LAMA-BES Program, ALA 2002 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 16 June 2002.
  • “The MetaScholar Initiative and Facilitation of Access to Digital Collections,” LITA Technical Issues in Digital Data Interest Group Program, ALA 2002 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 16 June 2002.
  • “MetaScholar Initiative Briefing: AmericanSouth.Org, MetaArchive.Org,” DLF Spring 2002 Forum, Chicago, IL, 12 May 2002.
  • “OCKHAM: An Opportunity to Share in the Development and Assessment of Digital Library Architectures and Key Technologies,” DLF Spring 2002 Forum, Chicago, IL, 11 May 2002.
  • “Digital Library Architectures: A ‘Lightweight’ Review,” OCKHAM Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 3 May 2002.
  • “Emory Metadata Projects” (Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, presented with Linda Matthews), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30 April 2002.
  • “MetaScholar Initiative Briefing: AmericanSouth.Org, MetaArchive.Org,” CNI Spring 2002 Task Force Meeting, Washington, D.C., 16 April 2002.
  • “MetaScholar Initiative Update,” ASERL Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, 17 March 2002.
  • “The Transmediation of Academic Libraries,” E-Publishing Conference: Changing Landscapes for Libraries and Authors, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 14 March 2002.
  • “Technical Briefing,” Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 19 February 2002.
  • “Focus Groups – April 2002,” Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 12 February 2002.
  • Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 5 February 2002.
  • “AmericanSouth.Org: Technical Team Organizational Meeting” (MetaScholar Project Meeting), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1 February 2002.
  • “Subject Domains,” Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 29 January 2002.
  • Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 15 January 2002.
  • “Emory Metadata Projects” (Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, presented with Linda Matthews), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 4 December 2001.
  • “Exploring Metadata Portal Concepts” (Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff, presented with Sharon Kennedy), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 20 November 2001.
  • Metadata Project Subject Portal Working Group Weekly Briefing for Woodruff Library Staff (presented with Linda Matthews), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 13 November 2001.
  • “Metadata Projects at Emory University,” (Briefing for ITD staff), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 29 October 2001.
  • "Electronic Finding Aids," Digital Library Federation Forum on Digital Library Practices, 17 July 1999, Washington, D.C. URL: http://www.diglib.org//forums/sum99/faemory/index.htm
  • "Non-Proprietary Systems and Systems Migration: SAGE," Research Libraries Group Forum on Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving, 21 May 1999, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
  • “Citrix Thin Client Server Clusters,” Information Technology Division Local Support Conference, 12 October 1998, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
  • "Microsoft Windows 4.0 Terminal Server," LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group meeting, ALA Annual Conference, 28 June 1998, Washington, D.C.
  • "Beyond HTML: The EAD and XML Formats, and the Development of Digital Archives," LITA Internet Resources Interest Group program, ALA Annual Conference , 27 June 1998, Washington, D.C.
  • “Performativity, Cultural Capital, and the Internet: An Analysis of the Internet as a Proposed Medium for Scholarly Communication Using Concepts from Lyotard and Bourdieu,” Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts Seminar Presentation, Emory University, 15 April 1998.
  • "Thin Clients and Network Computers- Emerging Paradigms," LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group meeting, ALA Annual Conference, 29 June 1997, San Francisco, CA.
  • "Baltic Online Resources," 27th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 29 October 1995, Washington, D.C.
  • "Integrating Access to Library Information Resources through Networked Systems: Issues, Trends, and Project Examples," Conference on Libraries and Scientific Communication, Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University 1994.
  • "Converting Downloaded OCLC/Amigos CACD Files For Use As Consideration Files," CACD Working Group Session, ALA 1992 Annual Conference.

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