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Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson (Thorsteinn Hallgrimsson) joined the National and University Library of Iceland in 1993 where he is now the Deputy National Librarian. At the National Library he is responsible for Digital Libraries development projects and represents Iceland in the International Internet Preservation Consortium. From 1968 to 1992 he worked for IBM in Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Germany as a Systems Engineer and Marketing Representative. His principal areas of responsibility were in providing technical support in telecommunications, online banking systems and systems development. In 1968 he graduated with a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.

Yan Han is Associate Librarian, University of Arizona. Since 2005, he has been the technical lead for many digital library projects and rebuilding Afghanistan library projects. These include building an Integrated Library System using open source architecture and preserving Afghanistan unique materials. In 2007, he was invited to the US Government Printing Office as an expert to evaluate its digitization project. Yan was selected by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of 100 national emerging leaders. He is a working member for an International Standard Organization (ISO) working group to create an international standard on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and to facilitate digital content management. Yan Han graduated from the University of Western Ontario with MSc. in Computer Science and MLIS.

Henk Harmsen (1958) is the deputy director of Data Archiving and Networked Servces (DANS) in The Hague. Between 1995 and 2000, he worked as Operational Director of the Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information (NIWI-KNAW), an institute of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). There he was the primary 'driver' of various innovative IT-projects. Previously, he worked at University of Amsterdam (UvA) as Head of the Library and Operational Manager at the Faculty of Science. Between 1993 and 1995, he was Head of the IT department and, before that, Interim Manager (1996-1997) of KNAW at the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He completed his Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (VU) about automatic syntactical- and semantic text-parsing. He studied Computer Linguistics at the UvA. Henk is a musician and a 'self-made' expert on digital audio recording.

Michael Hartle is a Doctoral Researcher at the Teleco-operation group of Prof. Mühlhäuser and is writing his PhD thesis on the subject of data formats. He entered the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2004 as an employee at the e-learning center for participation in the Digital Lecture Hall project. Between 1998 and 2003, Michael studied for a Dipl. - Inform. (FH) degree in Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany. In parallel, he worked as a freelance IT consultant in the context of Java and J2EE business applications.

Birgit Nordsmark Henrikson has been Head of the Digital Preservation Department, National Library Division at the Royal Library in Denmark since 2006. Birgit joined the Royal Library in Denmark in 1997 and was assigned Head of Digitisation and Web Publication.She has been involved in web archiving since 1998, when Denmark included net material in its legal deposit law. Birgit is a Member of the Steering Committee of the Danish Net Archive - http://netarchive.dk - and of the International Internet Preservation Consortium - http://netpreserve.org . She graduated with an MA in History and Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen in 1987.

Steve Hitchcock is project manager of the JISC-funded Preservation project, which began in 2005 and is now in phase 2 and is investigating the provision of preservation services for digital institutional repositories. Steve is a member of the team at Southampton University that has led the development of IRs and IR software since 1999. He is joined on this paper by others from the Southampton team (David Tarrant and Leslie Carr) and by long-term project partners from leading UK centres of digital preservation, Neil Jefferies and Ben O'Steen from Oxford University Library Services, and by Adrian Brown, digital preservation services manager at The National Archives.

Helen Hockx-Yu is the Web Archiving Programme Manager at the British Library, leading a team of web archivists and technologists to archive and preserve the UK web in collaboration which other key UK and international organisations. Previously, Helen was project manager of the Planets project, a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. Before joining the British Library, Helen worked as a Programme Manager at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, overseeing JISC's technology research and development activities in the area of digital preservation.

Arwen Hutt is a Metadata Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. She is a member of the Metadata Analysis and Specification Unit within the UCSD Libraries and a part of the Library of Congress sponsored Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program. She has been part of several collaborative grant projects between the UCSD Libraries and the San Diego Super Computer Center focused on digital preservation issues and the use of PREMIS for documenting preservation events and processes. She is also a member of the Archivists' Toolkit project team and is involved in the development of the UCSD Libraries' digital asset management system, the establishment of metadata standards, migration of legacy collections and specification of search functionality within that system.