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Timothy W. Cole

Previous Position(s)

Faculty Appointments (all University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Professor of Library and Information Science (2009 -)
• Professor, University Library (2003 -)
• Associate Professor, University Library (1996 - 2003)
• Assistant Professor, University Library (1989 - 1996)

Administrative Appointments

• Mathematics Librarian, Univ. of Illinois at UC (2000 - )
• Digital Content Access Librarian, Univ. of Illinois at UC (2012 - )
• Interim Head, Library Digital Services & Development, Univ. of Illinois at UC (2007 - 2008)
• Assistant Engineering Librarian for Information Services, Univ. of Illinois at UC (1999 - 2000)
• Systems Librarian for Digital Projects, Univ. of Illinois at UC (1994 - 1999)
• Asst. / Visting Asst. Engineering & Beckman Institute Librarian, Univ. of Illinois at UC (1989 - 1994)
• Technical Group Leader, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (1985 - 1988)
• Engineer, Associate Engineer, Group Engineer, Senior Engineer, Martin Marietta Aerospace, New Orleans, LA (1978 - 1985)

Education

• 1989 -- MS Library and Information Science: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1978 -- BS Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Instruction

(All team-taught at UIUC Graduate School of Library & Information Science)

• LIS 450, Section DS (1 unit): Advanced Problems in Library & Information Science: Implementation of Distributed Information Systems. (Fall 1997, Spring 1999, 2000, 2001)
• LIS 590MD/MDL (1 unit): Metadata in Theory and Practice. (Spring 2006, 2007, 2008; Fall 2009)

Research Interests

Metadata best practices, digital library system design, digital library interoperability protocols, and the use of XML for encoding metadata and digitized scholarly resources in science, mathematics and literature.

Recent grants (selected)

• Open Annotation Collaboration Phase I: Enabling Interoperable Annotation of Scholarly Digital Resources (2009-10) and Phase II: Demonstration and Refinement (2011-12). PI: Timothy W. Cole. Co-PIs: Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland), Douglas Reside (University of Maryland), Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory). Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Advancing the IMLS DCC to Promote our Collective Cultural Heritage (2010-12). PI: Carole Palmer. Co-PIs: Timothy Cole, Miles Efron, Thomas Habing, Sarah Shreeves. Sponsor: Institute of Museum & Library Services.
• Emblematica Online: Emblem Digitization, the German Emblem Database, and the OpenEmblem Portal (2009-2011). PIs: Mara Wade (U.S.); Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Germany). Co-PIs: Timothy Cole, Thomas Kilton, Myung-Ja Han (U.S.); Thomas Stäcker, Andrea Opitz (Germany). Sponsor: Bilateral Digital Humanities Program funded jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanties (U.S.) and the DFG (Germany).
• Next Generation Digital Federations: Adding Value through Collection Evaluation, Metadata Relations, and Strategic Scaling (2007-2010). PI: Carole Palmer. Co-PIs: Timothy W. Cole, William H. Mischo, Allen Renear, Sarah Shreeves, Michael Twidale. Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• Demonstration of Portal Mechanisms for Enhanced Resource Integration in the Academic Information Environment (2007-2009). PI: William H. Mischo. Co-PIs: Timothy W. Cole, Michael Norman, Mary Schlembach. Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• Metadata for You and Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata (2006 - 2008). PI: Sarah Shreeves. Co-PIs: Timothy W. Cole, Michael Norman, Jenn Riley (Indiana Univ.). Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• IMLS Collection Registry and Metadata Repository (2002-2007). PI: Timothy W. Cole. Co-PIs: William Mischo, Nuala Koetter, Nancy O'Brien, Carole Palmer, Sarah Shreeves, Michael Twidale. Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Recent Publications

Articles and Book/Encyclopedia Chapters (selected)

• Cole, Timothy W. and Myung-Ja Han. 2012. Developing Digital Library Services to Support Emblem Studies. Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies 19: 65-94.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Myung-Ja Han. 2012. Library Workflows to Provide Emblem-Level Descriptions and Access. In Emblem Digitization: Conducting Digital Research with Renaissance Texts and Images, Mara R. Wade (ed.). (Special Issue, Early Modern Literary Studies 20.) Available: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-20/WADE_Cole-Han-EMLS.htm
• Han, Myung-Ja, Christine Cho, Timothy W. Cole, Amy S. Jackson. 2009. Metadata for Special Collections in CONTENTdm. Journal of Library Metadata 9 (3 & 4): 213-238.
• Jackson, Amy S., Myung-Ja Han, Kurt Groetsch, Megan Mustafoff, Timothy W. Cole 2008. Dublin Core Metadata Harvested through OAI-PMH. Journal of Library Metadata 8(1): 5-21.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Nikki Wright. 2008. "Mathematics." In Guide to Reference (online), Robert Kieft (general ed.) Chicago: ALA Editions.
• Foulonneau, Muriel, Timothy W. Cole, Charles Blair, Peter C. Gorman, Kat Hagedorn, Jenn Riley. 2007. The CIC Metadata Portal: A Collaborative Effort in the Area of Digital Libraries. Science & Technology Libraries 26, no. 3/4:111-135.
• Cole, Timothy W. 2006. MathML in Practice: Issues and Promise. CODATA Data Science Journal 5: 209-218.
• Chavez, Robert, Timothy W. Cole, Jon Dunn, Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas G. Habing, William Parod, Thorton Staples. 2006. DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs. D-Lib Magazine 12 (10).
• Foulonneau, Muriel, Thomas G. Habing, and Timothy W. Cole. 2006. Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services. D-Lib Magazine 12 (1).
• Bartolo, Laura M., Timothy W. Cole, Sarah Giersch, and Michael Wright. 2005. NSF / NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages. D-Lib Magazine 11 (11).
• Cole, Timothy W. & Sarah L. Shreeves. 2004. Search and discovery across collections: The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project. Library Hi Tech 22 (3): 307-322.
• Cole, Timothy W. & Sarah L. Shreeves. 2004. Lessons learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project. in Metadata in Practice, D. Hillmann & E. Westbrook (eds.). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions: 174-190.
• Cole, Timothy W. 2003. Visual Basic, Scripting Edition (VBScript). in The Internet Encyclopedia, Hossein Bidgoli (Editor-in-Chief). New York: John Wiley and Sons: vol. 3, pp. 620 - 634.
• Cole, Timothy W. 2003. Mathematics Databases. in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2nd ed., Miriam A. Drake (ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.: vol. 3, pp. 1792 - 1803.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Joanne Kaczmarek, & Timothy W. Cole. 2003. Harvesting Cultural Heritage Metadata Using the OAI Protocol. Library Hi Tech 21 (2): 159-169.
• Cole, Timothy W. 2002. E-Content Department: A framework for building good digital library collections. EDUCAUSE Review November/December: 12 - 13.
• Cole, Timothy W. 2001. Publishing mathematics on the Web. Science & Technology Libraries 20 (2/3): 27-44.
• Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing, & Robert H. Ferrer. 2001. Using XML and XSLT to Process and Render Online Journals. Library Hi Tech 19 (3): 210 - 222.

Published Conference Papers and Abstracts (selected)

• Cole, Timothy W., Myung-Ja Han, Jordan Vannoy. 2012. Descriptive Metadata, Iconclass, and Digitized Emblem Literature. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. New York: Association for Computing Machinery: 111-120. DOI: 10.1145/2232817.2232839
• Cole, Timothy W., Myung-Ja Han, Doug Moncur and Harriett E. Green. 2011. Describing Collections & Collection Services for the BTP. In DC-2011 -- The Hague: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: 74-79.
• Cole, Timothy, Neil Fraistat, David Greenbaum, Dave Lester, Emma Millon. 2011. Bamboo Technology Project: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Arts and Humanities [Poster Abstract]. In Digital Humanities 2011: Conference Abstracts. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University: 303-304.
• Cole, Timothy W. & Myung-Ja Han. 2011. The Open Annotation Collaboration Phase I: Towards a Shared, Interoperable Data Model for Scholarly Annotation. Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. 1 (3).
• Hunter, Jane, Timothy Cole, Robert Sanderson, Herbert Van de Sompel. 2010. The Open Annotation Collaboration: A Data Model to Support Sharing and Interoperability of Scholarly Annotations. In Digital Humanities 2010: Conference Abstracts. King's College London: 275-277.
• Foulonneau, Muriel and Timothy W. Cole. 2005. Strategies for reprocessing aggregated metadata, In 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2005, September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria, Proceedings, Andreas Rauber, Stavros Christodoulakis, and A Min Tjoa (eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3652. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag: 290 - 301.
• Foulonneau, Muriel, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, Sarah L. Shreeves. 2005. Using Collection Descriptions to Enhance an Aggregation of Harvested Item-Level Metadata. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries [Denver, June 7-11]. New York, Association for Computing Machinery: 32-41.
• Shreeves, S.L., E.M. Knutson, B. Stvilia, C.L. Palmer, M.B. Twidale, & T.W. Cole. 2005. Is 'quality' metadata 'shareable' metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections. In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, [Minneapolis, MN, April 7-10 2005], H.A. Thompson (ed.) Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries: 223-237.
• Stvilia, Besiki, Les Gasser, Michael Twidale, Sarah L. Shreeves, and Timothy W. Cole. 2004. Metadata quality for federated collections. In Proceedings of ICIQ04 - 9th International Conference on Information Quality. Cambridge, MA: 111-125.
• Habing, Thomas G., Timothy W. Cole, and William H. Mischo. 2004. Developing a Technical Registry of OAI Data Providers. In 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2004, Bath, U.K., September 12 - 17, 2004, Proceedings. Vol. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag: 400-410.
• Shreeves, Sarah L. & Timothy W. Cole. 2003. Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections [Poster Abstract]. In DC-2003: Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: 241-242.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Christine Kirkham, Joanne Kaczmarek, & Timothy W. Cole. 2003. Utility of an OAI Service Provider Search Portal. In Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Catherine C. Marshall, Geneva Henry, and Lois Delcambre (eds.), Los Alamitos, CA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.: 306-308.
• Mischo, William H., Thomas G. Habing, and Timothy W. Cole. 2002. Integration of simultaneous searching and reference linking across bibliographic resources on the Web. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Gary Marchionini & William Hersch (eds.). NY, Assoc. for Computing Machinery: 119 - 125.
• Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, Robert Ferrer, & Thomas G. Habing. 2000. Using XML, XSLT, and CSS in a Digital Library. In ASIS 2000: Knowledge Innovations, Proceedings of the 63rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, November 12-16, 2000, Donald H. Kraft (proceedings ed.). Medford, NJ: Information Today: 430-439.

Books

• Cole, Timothy W. and Myung-Ja Han. 2012 (in press). XML for Catalogers and Metadata Librarians. Volume in Third Millennium Cataloging, Susan Lazinger and Sheila Intner (series eds.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Muriel Foulonneau. 2007. Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Volume in Third Millennium Cataloging, Susan Lazinger and Sheila Intner (series eds.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-280-9.

Recent Presentations

Invited Presentations (selected)

• Cole, Timothy W. "OAI-ORE Experiments at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign." Presented at OAI-ORE Open Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 3 March 2008.
• Cole, Timothy W. "OAI-PMH in Practice: Lessons Learned from the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project," at Middle East Digital Library Workshop, Alexandria, Egypt, 17 January 2006.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Simeon Warner. "Tutorial I: OAI-PMH repositories: quality issues regarding metadata and protocol compliance," at 2005 CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications (OAI-4), Geneva, Switzerland, October 20, 2005.
• Cole, Timothy W. "OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting & Its Usefulness to STM Publishers," at 2005 Allen Press Emerging Trends Seminar, Washington, D.C., 13 April 2005.
• Cole, Timothy W. & Muriel Foulonneau. "Rationale for Interoperable Metadata," invited presentation at The Economics of Digitization, a symposium sponsored by Innodata Isogen and the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL: 17 May 2004.
• Cole, Timothy W., Sarah L. Shreeves, & Martin Halbert. "The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting," invited pre-conference tutorial at Web-Wise 2004, Chicago, IL. March 3, 2004.
• Cole, Timothy W. "IMLS NLG Collection Registry & Item-Level Metadata Repository at the University of Illinois," invited presentation at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop, Bath, U.K., September 4, 2003.
• Cole, Timothy W. "Using OAI-PMH to Aggregate Metadata Describing Cultural Heritage Resources," invited presentation at Combined American Library Association / Canadian Library Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 22, 2003.
• Cole, Timothy W. "The IMLS Digital Library Forum Report: A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections," invited paper read at Web-Wise 2002: Building Digital Communities, John Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, March 22, 2002.
• Cole, Timothy W. "Beyond HTML: Extensible Markup Language (XML)," at Gateways to Leadership: Annual Meeting and Conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (Educational Program Session), Philadelphia, PA, July 19, 2000.

Refereed Presentations (selected)

• Cole, Timothy W, Myung-Ja Han & Jordan Vannoy. "Digital Workflows and Interoperability for Emblem Studies," presented at the Society for Emblem Studies Ninth International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland: June, 2011.
• Sanderson, Robert, Timothy Cole, and Herbert Van de Sompel. "Annotating Scholarly Resources: An Update from the Open Annotation Collaboration," project briefing at the CNI Fall 2010 Membership Meeting, Washington, D.C., 13 December 2010.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Myung-Ja Han. "The Open Annotation Collaboration: Towards a Shared, Interoperable Data Model of Scholarly Annotation," presented at the 2010 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Evanston, IL, 21 November 2010.
• Cole, Timothy W. "The Open Annotation Collaboration," presented as part of Doing More with Less: A Community-Software-Based Technology Strategy Roundtable at Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less! Museum Computer Network 37th Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 12 November 2009.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Thomas G. Habing. "The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry," at NSF - DLF - JISC/UKOLN Digital Library Service Registry Workshop, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 23 March 2006
• Cole, Timothy W. "MathML and Digital Libraries," at International Scientific Data, Standards, & Digital Libraries [post-conference tutorial in conjunction with the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries], Denver, CO, June 11, 2005.
• Cole, Timothy W. " The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project at the University of Illinois," at 23rd Annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 12, 2004.
• Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, and Thomas G. Habing. "Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting," half-day tutorial at the 2003 Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, Houston, TX, May 27, 2003.
• Cole, Timothy W. "Plans for an OAI metadata harvesting service," at Digital Library Federation Fall 2001 Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, November 18, 2001.
• Habing, Thomas G., Timothy W. Cole, and William H. Mischo. "Qualified Dublin Core using RDF for Sci-Tech Journal Articles," at DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan: October 22-26, 2001.

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