UNT

Dr. William Moen - Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences at UNT's College of Information and Director of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK)
Bill has managed a number of large research and development projects, including two IMLS National Leadership Grants, and is currently PI for a project funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to design and develop a learning object repository for the Board’s statewide Texas Course Redesign initiative. His research focuses on metadata standards, development, assessment, and use, in addition to application development, testing, and usability. For the proposed project, Dr. Moen will lead the overall management of the project, will be involved in implementation of the machine-processing phase, and will lead the testing and evaluation of system interfaces and features, including quality assessment of the label data (i.e., metadata) resulting from the workflow processes.

Dr. Miguel Ruiz - Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences at UNT's College of Information
Dr. Ruiz will contribute expertise in the areas of human-computer interaction, usability assessment, and technology evaluation. In addition, he will assist PI Moen in supervising and providing technical leadership for the graduate research assistants.

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BRIT

Amanda Neill - Director of the BRIT Herbarium and Co-Director of Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
Amanda has substantial experience in training and testing staff and volunteers in both digital and nondigital tasks relating to herbarium organization, management, and databasing. She will lead the selection of the test datasets of already-digitized specimens from the BRIT Herbarium, will oversee the assessment of success of machine and human processing work areas, and will inform the development of interfaces.

Jason Best  - Head of Bioinformatics

Jason is a primary creator of the Atrium Biodiversity Information System (http://www.atrium-biodiversity.org) developed at BRIT with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and continues to oversee its development and programming. He has experience training users of web-based applications, designing and testing user interfaces, and communicating biologists’ and collection managers’ requirements to programmers on his team. He will lead the development and implementation of programming throughout the project and will direct the integration of interfaces into workflow.

Sean Murphy - Developer

Dr. Brooke Byerley - Herbarium Data Coordinator

Keri McNew - Research Programs Manager

Tiana Franklin - Herbarium Collections Manager

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UNT Student Researchers

Advisory Group

Jim Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas

Paul Berry
Director of the Herbarium
University of Michigan

Stan Blum
Research Information Manager
California Academy of Sciences

Chris Freeland
Director of Bioinformatics
Missouri Botanical Garden

Jane Greenberg
Associate Professor
Metadata Research Center
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gerald "Stinger" Guala
USDA, NRCS National Plant Data Center

Bryan Heidorn
National Science Foundation
Division of Biological Infrastructure

James Macklin
Director of Collections and Informatics
Harvard University Herbarium

Mark Phillips
Unit Head, Digital Projects Unit
UNT Libraries
University of North Texas

Martin Terry
Curator
Powell Herbarium
Sul Ross State University

Sula Vanderplank
Herbarium Collections Manager
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden