Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.M. University of Georgia, 1993.
• M.M. University of Georgia, 1996.
• M.L.I.S. University of South Carolina, 1998.

Blogs

• McDonald Online
• Educause Blog

Professional Interests

• Senior Personnel. "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists," NIH funded study to develop and implement a semantic web-based platform for representing faculty interests, activites and accomplishments, and make that data available to search, social networking and a new generation of interoperable collaborative applications.
• Associate Director. "Data to Insight Center - Pervasive Technology Institute," IU/Lilly Foundation funded institute to create tools and guidelines that allow scientists and companies to harness the vast stores of digital data now being produced, and to turn these data into insight that effectively guides human decisions and advances human knowledge. See http://pti.iu.edu/d2i
• HathiTrust. CIC Project to develop a shared digital library infrastructure.
• Community Source Software Sustainable Communities. How can communities in higher education join together to support long-term software development that are specific to the needs of higher education? How do cultural heritage organizations take advantage of this enterprise scale activity?

Recent Presentations

• JASIG 2010 Conference, San Diego, CA
• Coalition for Networked Information - Spring Task Force Meeting 2010, Baltimore, MD
• Educause Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, IL
• Taiga Forum V, Boston, MA

Sample Publications

• McDonald, Robert H., “Sustainable Communities for Software: Variations on a Theme,” Educause Review, vol. 44, 2009.
• McDonald, Robert H., “Restoring Trust Relationships within Collaborative Digital Preservation Federations,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories, 2009.
• R.H. McDonald, T.O. Walters, and C. Thomas, “A Discussion on Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation User Values.,” Proceedings of the MERLOT International Conference, 2008.
• R.H. McDonald and C. Thomas, “Cross-Institutional Repository Assessment: A Standardized Model for Institutional Research Assessment,” Proceedings of the ARL Library Assessment Conference, 2008.
• C. Jordan, R.H. McDonald, D. Minor, and A. Kozbial, “Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for Distributed Digital Preservation,” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2008.
• C. Jordan, A. Kozbial, D. Minor, and R.H. McDonald, “Encouraging Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for DigitalPreservation,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), 2008.
• R.H. McDonald and C. Thomas, “The Case for Standardized Reporting and Assessment Requirements for Institutional Repositories,” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 20, 2008, p. 101.
• F. Berman, R.H. McDonald, B.E. Schottlander, and A. Kozbial, “The Need to Formalize Trust Relationships in Digital Repositories,” Educause Review, vol. 43, 2008.
• M. Jackson, J. Blackburn, and R.H. McDonald, “MediaWiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for Electronic Resources Outreach,” The Reference Librarian, vol. 48, 2007, pp. 19-36.
• R.H. McDonald and C. Thomas, “Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values,” Educause Quarterly, vol. 29, 2006.

• Sample Courses Taught

  • Seminar on Archives and Records Management, Digitization Projects and Mass Digitization

  In additon to formal courses, I have taught many short courses on community building for open source software, as well as numerous guest lectures on library information systems, data management, mass storage systems, digital libraries, project management, enterprise systems, system architecture, and information security.

  Honors and Professional Activities

  • Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honor Society, 1996
  • Seminars on Academic Computing, Founders Scholarship Recipient, 2005
  • Frye Leadership Institute Fellow, 2009
  • Co-Founding Member, Kuali OLE

  Some Current Additional Activities

  • Lita Monographs Editor, LITA
  • Educause Quarterly Review Committee EQ Review Committee
  • Educause Evolving Technologies Committee ET Blog
  • Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, Editorial Board