Peter Brantley
Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as a technology director at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House.
He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum, and also blogs at pubfrontier.com and toc.oreilly.com
Posts by Peter Brantley:
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
This last week I attended a talk by Professor Paul Duguid of the UC Berkeley I-School. Prof. Duguid teaches on the topic of information quality, and recently has begun research on the history and development of trademarks and branding. As with his previous work, his talk raised issues that question the embrace of the current popular culture of open web based systems, and his commentaries are well worth sharing.
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