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FACADE Advisory Board

From MacKenzie Smith's letter to IMLS (August 17, 2006):

"The board's role is to review the project's progress in several areas:"

  • how practitioners use CAD software and 3D CAD models and their requirements for long-term preservation of the models, including retrieval, viewing, annotating, and so on.
  • identifying preservation formats for 3D CAD models, methods of transforming data from its original software into preservation formats, and subsequent archiving practices (e.g. for description, preservation, dissemination).
  • possible test collections, additional CAD software to evaluate, related data standards, and digital preservation best practices for 3D material.


Members List

Board members.

STATUS:

  • Names approved by Bill Mitchell
  • Approved also by IMLS (sponsor)

Names

(alphabetical order)

  1. Stephen Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library
  2. Dr Alonzo Addison, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  3. Dr Howard Burns, Architectural historian, Scuola Normale, Pisa
  4. Kristine Fallon, Fallon Assoc., Chicago
  5. Bill Mitchell Dr William Mitchell (chair)
  6. Dr William Regli, Drexel Univ., Professor, Director, Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory
  7. Dennis Shelden, Gehry Technologies

Members Very Brief Bios

Chair: Dr. William Mitchell

Professor, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT

Former dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT

Members of Official Board (6)

(alphabetical order)

1. Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library

Current position:

Stephen Abrams
Senior Manager for Digital Preservation Technology
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
415 20th Street, Room 405
Oakland, CA 94612-2901

Former position:

Stephen Abrams - Harvard University Library, USA

Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library, where he provides technical leadership for strategic planning, design, and coordination of the Library's digital systems, projects, and assets. He is currently engaged in research and implementation of effective methods for archival preservation of digital objects. Mr. Abrams is the project manager for JHOVE, an extensible Java framework for format-specific object identification, validation, and characterization; the project leader and document editor for ISO/TC171/SC2/WG5, the joint working group developing the PDF/A standard; and has contributed leading efforts to establish a Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR). He is a member of ACM, ALA, ASIS&T, and IEEE Computer Society.

2. Alonzo Addison, UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Centre's Informatics, Management and Systems (CLT/WHC/CEP/IMS) 7, place de fontenoy 75352 Paris France


Paper at 2007 International Conference on Digital Applications in Cultural Heritage (Taiwan)

  • "Bridging the 3D Divide in Digital Heritage -- A Need for Data Commonality"

Former Director, Center for Design Visualization, Univ. Calif. Berkeley

"Alonzo C. Addison serves as Director of the Center for Design Visualization, University of California, Berkeley. A co-founder of the Virtual Heritage Network, his work ranges from historical visualization to design simulation, information architecture, and collaborative networks. From planning a real-time, visual command center for the Canadian rail network in the 1980s and developing strategy for Cyra Technologies' and its 3D "monument-scale" lidar scanner in the 1990s he is interested in the nexus of digital technology, world heritage, and design."

3. Howard Burns, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Architectural historian.

Presidente, Scientific Committee, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (Palladio Centre and Museum) in Vicenza, Italy.

Faculty, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

"Howard Burns is President of the Center for the Study of Palladio in Vicenza, and a Professor of Architectural History in Pisa. He was educated at Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute. He previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Venice. He is the author of numerous influential publications on the architecture of the Italian Renaissance. He has been a pioneer, among architectural historians, in the applications of digital technology."

"Laureato in Storia (antica e moderna) all'Università di Cambridge nel 1961 è stato Fellow di King's College a Cambridge. È stato poi docente di storia dell'arte e dell'architettura al Courtauld Institute di Londra, Slade Professor of Fine Art presso la University of Cambridge e Professorial Fellow al King's College.

Ha ricoperto la carica di Professor ordinario of Architecture, Robert C. and Marian K. Weinberg Professor of Architecture alla Harvard University e professore ordinario di storia dell'architettura all'Università di Ferrara.

E' stato fellow alla Villa I Tati a Firenze, professore presso l'Università IUAV di Venezia, Visiting Professor al MIT e Senior Lecturer in the History of Architecture alla Harvard University. Ha tenuto corsi e seminari a Cambridge, Londra, negli Stati Uniti e in Italia, spesso in collaborazione con altri studiosi tra cui Anthony Blunt, John Shearman, Micheal Hirst, G ü lru Necipoglu, Manfredo Tafuri, James Ackerman, Jorge Silvetti, William J. Mitchell.

Ha avuto un ruolo di rilievo nell'organizzazione delle seguenti mostre: Palladio e l'Europa del Nord , (Vicenza, 1999); John Soane Architetto , 2000; John Soane e i Ponti di Legno in Svizzera , 2002, e nella preparazione della mostra Andrea Palladio e la Villa Veneta da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa (marzo-luglio 2005).

Ha inoltre collaborato all'organizzazione di varie mostre su Palladio in Italia e all'estero, oltre che su Raffaello, Giulio Romano e Francesco Giorgio. Dal 1995 è Presidente del Consiglio Scientifico del Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio a Vicenza."

  • Author of books on Italian renaissance architecture (e.g. Andrea Palladio, Michele Sanmicheli, Donato Bramante).

4. Kristine Fallon, Fallon Assoc., Chicago

Articles on study conducted with the Art Institute of Chicago on CAD archiving

Additional articles on Building Information Model (BIM), Google Earth & SketchUp on firm's website.

5. Dr. William Regli, Drexel Univ.

Director, Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering at Drexel University with joint appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Also Associate Technical Director of Drexel University's Applied Communications and Information Networking (ACIN) initiative with the U.S. Army CERDEC.


6. Dennis Shelden, Gehry Technologies, Chief Technology Officer

http://gehrytechnologies.com/company-management-bios.html

Bachelor of Science in Art and Design, a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lecturer, MIT, Course Spring 2007 "Digital Fabrication and Construction-Professional Applications"

http://architecture.mit.edu/subjects/sp07/4513.htm


Board MEETINGS

Initial meeting was held September 17-18, 2007, at MIT.

Second and final meeting was held June 12-13, 2008, at MIT.

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