Joan A. Smith is a
Ph.D. student in the Computer Science
Department. Her educational background
includes courses at the University of
Korea, Panama Canal College, and Monterey
Peninsula College. She holds an M.A. degree
in computer education from Hampton University
in Hampton, Virginia, a B.A. degree in
natural science from the University of
the State of New York in Albany, and a
Ph.B. (Bachelor's in Philosophy) in Philosophy
from the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Her primary research interest is in digital
information preservation. She was awarded
the Zipf Fellowship in 2004 for showing
"exceptional promise for leadership and
technical achievement in information management".http://www.clir.org
For more than 12 years, Joan worked in
information systems for private industry
on such issues as migration from older
to new technologies, automating systems
from pen-and-paper to digital formats,
and rescuing data from near loss caused
by system obsolescence. In the process,
she has worked closely with US and NATO
forces, the Defense Information Systems
Agency, and the French Navy. Her experiences
in dealing with the on-going problems
of digital object obsolescence led her
to pursue graduate research on this topic
She is co-author of the paper "Toward
Alternative Metrics of Journal Impact:
A Comparison of Usage and Citation Data",
to be published Summer 2005 in a special
issue of the journal of Information Processing
and Management. For additional background
and other research projects, see Joan's
home site at
http://www.joanasmith.com
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