NDSA:G. Sayeed Choudhury

G. Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University

Biography:
G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He is a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources, member of the ICPSR Council, DuraSpace Board and the Digital Library Federation advisory committee. He has been a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Choudhury serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is the Principal Investigator for the Data Conservancy, one of the awards through NSF's DataNet program. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends.

Interest in serving on the Coordinating Committee:
I am interested in serving on the NDSA Coordinating Committee given my longstanding interest and work related to both research and implementation of digital preservation systems. Through NDIIPP, Johns Hopkins participated in the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) with four partner institutions including the Library of Congress. This early NDIIPP experience reinforced the notion for a distributed network of partners to address digital preservation needs across our community. Johns Hopkins recent work with data curation through the National Science Foundation’s DataNet program has made it abundantly clear that data preservation presents fundamental challenges that need to be addressed at time of urgency particularly given NSF’s recent announcement related to data management plans.
The NDSA features the diverse, comprehensive set of partners that are well suited to address these challenges. I would welcome the opportunity to serve on the NDSA Coordinating Committee to help further this Alliance’s goals and programs.

Communities represented:
Academia, computer science.


Length of Term:
1 year (ending December 31, 2011)