NDSA:Michele Kimpton

Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace

Biography:
Michele Kimpton is the Chief Executive Officer and one of the founders of the DuraSpace organization. DuraSpace was formed in July 2009, and was the coming together of both the DSpace Foundation and Fedora-Commons organizations. Mrs. Kimpton’s key responsibilities are to develop new technologies and services for existing and new communities the DuraSpace organization supports. She currently is the Project Director for the DuraCloud open source technology and service. She also is responsible for managing and setting the strategic direction for DuraSpace.

Prior to joining DuraSpace, Michele Kimpton was the Founder of the DSpace Foundation, a not for profit organization set up to provide leadership and support to the community of users of the DSpace open source software platform. The mission of the Foundation was to promote open access and preservation of the world’s scholarly works. Currently there are over one thousand installations world wide using DSpace software.

Prior to joining DSpace, Michele Kimpton was the Director at Internet Archive for five years. In her role she works closely with National Libraries, Archives and Universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving. She developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on web archiving activities, including being one of the founding members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. During her tenor at Internet Archive she developed and launched the archive-it service.

Interest in serving on the Coordinating Committee:
Over the past ten years I have worked with Library communities around the world to preserve and provide persistent access to our cultural heritage for future generations. I am committed to ensuring our future generations will have access to born digital materials created decades earlier. NDSA is a strategic group of members in the community who have a common mission to preserve these materials and I feel together, with the support of Library of Congress, we can have impact.

Communities represented:
Not-for-profit, preservation service provider

Length of Term:
2 years (ending December 31, 2012)