User:Dean B Krafft

Dean Blackmar Krafft

I am currently the Chief Technology Strategist and Director of Information Technology for the Cornell University Library. As the Chief Technology Strategist, I help the Library navigate the transition from physical to digital, including such issues as digital preservation, research data curation, and discovery and access over a rapidly evolving set of digital resources. My online profile is available at Cornell's VIVO researcher profiling system.

Previously, I served both as a researcher and an administrator in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY through 2008. As an administrator, I was the Director of Information Technology for Computing and Information Science. I helped provide oversight for the Computing Facilities Support group in Computer Science, represented Computing and Information Science to the campus-wide IT Managers Council, and focused on a number of issues including IT policy, software acquisition, and computer security.

On the research side, I was the Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell. I led the effort to develop key components of the Core Integration Technology for the library, and I managed the team that maintained the production library services. I also worked with the other institutions involved in the Core Integration effort to specify, develop, and provide new digital library technologies to the over one hundred NSF-funded projects involved in the NSDL program.

My own particular research interests focus on ensuring the availability in the digital world of pre-digital published and manuscript materials, as well as related issues on copyright, the public domain, and public access to older and out-of-print materials.

My personal interests include family history and what is loosely called "folk" music (ranging from old English ballads through modern singer/songwriters). I have a family website at http://krafftfamily.org.