Joan Smith spent 15 years as a computer specialist in positions ranging from systems administration to software engineering director before beginning her doctoral studies at Old Dominion University.
She was the eighth recipient of the CLIR Zipf Fellowship, and was invited to the first Google Workshop for Women Engineers in 2006.
Her prior education includes a degree in Philosophy from the University of Louvain, Belgium; degrees in Chemistry, Biology and Natural Science from Monterey Peninsula College and the University of the State of New York; and a Master's degree in Computer Education from Hampton University. Joan's dissertation, "Integrating Preservation Functions into the Web Server," presents a model called "CRATE" and introduces the concept of using the web server itself as an agent of digital preservation. She will defend her dissertation on Thursday, June 12th, 2008.
Joan has released an Apache module, mod_oai, which can be used to generate preservation-ready web resources. The module can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/modoai. Her goal is to make digital preservation accessible to everyone, so that today's records will not be lost to future generations. Joan's home page is:
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