NISO Webinar, Building Support for Non-Traditional Scholarly Outputs, August 17, 2022

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

Bonnie Russell (MLIS, Wayne State University) is the Project Manager for MESH Research and Humanities Commons, and Digital Specialist for HuMetricsHSS. She has extensive experience in technical project management, user experience, quality assurance testing, technical documentation and training, and metadata management. Ms. Russell has been active working with digital humanities scholars since 2012, helping scholars shape projects and identify technology needs. She served as the 2019-2020 chair of the Digital Publishing Committee for the Association of University Presses, primarily focused on the evaluation of digital publishing platforms and repositories.

Carl Stahmer, PhD is Executive Director of the UC Davis DataLab, an interdisciplinary, cross-university unit which serves as a hub for researchers and students from many domains who are interested in data science and pushing the envelope of research in the digital age. In addition to his leadership of DataLab, Stahmer holds appointments as a Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis. As a computational humanist, his own research is focused on the development and application of machine learning methods, particularly in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Semantic, Content Based Image Recognition, to the study of 16th and 17th century print history. His research has been funded by multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. Stahmer also serves as a member of the teaching faculty at the Rare Book School, University of Virginia.

Ms. Ismail is the Head of Library Technologies at Georgetown University. Prior to joining Georgetown, she was the Head of the Digital Library at Florida Atlantic University. Her portfolio includes library servers, systems and applications, computing infrastructure, web & digital initiatives and services, and ILS & discovery services. Ms. Ismail has an MSLIS degree from FSU and an MBA from FAU and is currently a candidate pursuing a PhD in Computational Social Science at George Mason University. In 2015, she was named a Library Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for being a digital driver. She is very passionate about how libraries, through innovation of library technology and digital services, can play a role as agents of research and scholarship.

With over 20 years of experience in research and leadership in higher education, Dr. Wind Cowles leads the development and implementation of strategic initiatives involving research and teaching services, including in research data and digital scholarship. She leads a division of librarians and other information professionals who provide services, training, and technological infrastructure to advance research and scholarship, providing strategic direction and oversight of three Library branches covering the sciences, social sciences, and engineering. A member of the Princeton University Library senior leadership team, Wind is a strong advocate for open scholarship and the democratization of access to information. As the head of the Princeton Research Data Service, she manages a team of specialists who enable the long-term value of research data through effective research data management, open research practices, and long-term preservation and re-use. Before joining Princeton University, Wind worked at the National Institutes of Health, where she oversaw the review of grant applications related to language, communication, and Alzheimer’s disease. Prior to NIH, Wind was an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Florida and Director of the Language and Cognition Lab. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics from UC San Diego, in addition to an MA in Linguistics. She received a BA in Linguistics from the University of Southern California, with minors in Neuroscience and English-Creative Writing.