Research Programmer, Research and Development at the UIUC Library
Grainger Engineering Library
1301 W Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-4425
thabing@uiuc.edu
Previous Position(s)
1997-2001: Digital Library Initiative, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
1997: User Interface Designer, Metaphase Technology, Inc.
1997: Java Client Task-focused User Interface Team, Metaphase.
1990-1997: Senior Computing Methods and Technology Engineer, The Boeing Company.
Education
1989 - Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering: Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana.
1985 - Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering: University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
1983 - Associate of Science, Engineering: Lake Land Junior College, Mattoon, IL.
Recent Publications
Articles
Hamb, Christopher P., Matthew Cordial, Thomas G. Habing. "Design and Implementation of a
Custom OAI Search and Discovery Service."
Science & Technology Libraries, 26(3/4) (2006): 95-109.
Kaczmarek, Joanne, Patricia Hwse, Janet Eke, Thomas G. Habing. "Progress Report:
Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for
Evaluating Repository Software Applications."
D-Lib Magazine 12(12) (2006).
Chavez, Robert, Timothy W. Cole, Jon Dunn, Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas G. Habing, William Parod,
and Thornton Staples. "DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment."
D-Lib Magazine 12(10) (2006).
Foulonneau, Muriel, Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole. "Automated Capture of Thumbnails
and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services."
D-Lib Magazine, 12(1) (2006).
Shreeves, Sarah L., Thomas G. Habing, Kat Hagedorn, and Jeffery A. Young. "Current
Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting."
Library Trends 53(4) (2005): 576-589.
Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing, and Robert H. Ferrer. "Using XML and
XSLT to Process and Render Online Journals."
Library Hi Tech 19(3) (2001): 210 - 222.
Book Chapters
Kaczmarek, Joanne S., Thomas G. Habing, and Janet Eke, 2006. "Repository Software
Evaluation Using the Audit Checklist for Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories," in
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 107-108.
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
JCDL 2005: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,June 7-11, 2005, 32-41.
Habing, Thomas G., Timothy W. Cole, and William H. Mischo, 2004. "Developing a Technical
Registry of OAI Data Providers," in
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 8th European Conference, ECDL 2004,
Bath, UK, September 2004, Proceedings, 400-410.
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
JCDL 2002: Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,
July 14-18, 2002, 119-125.
Prom, Christopher J. and Thomas G. Habing, 2002. "Using the Open Archives Initiative
Protocols with EAD," in
JCDL 2002: Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries,July 14-18, 2002, 171-180.
Habing, Thomas G., Timothy W. Cole, and William H. Mischo, 2001. "Qualified Dublin Core
using RDF for Sci-Tech Journal Articles," in
DC-2001: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata
Applications 2001, National Institute of Informatics, October 24-26, 2001, 242-246.
Recent Presentations
Habing, Thomas G. "Integrating PREMIS and METS."
PREMIS Tutorial Implementers' Panel, Library of Congress, Washington, DC: June 21,
2007.
Cole, Timothy, Thomas G. Habing, Muriel Foulonneau. "An OAI-PMH Based Thumbnail Capture
and Delivery Service."
5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland:
April 19, 2007.
Habing, Thomas G., Matthew Cordial, Janet Eke, William H. Mischo, and Timothy W. Cole.
"Repository Interoperability with the Hub and Spoke."
2nd International Conference on Open Repositories, San Antonio, TX: January 24, 2007.
Seaman, David, Katherine Kott, Kat Hagedorn, Tom Habing, and Liz Milewicz. "DLF/IMLS OAI
Project Update."
Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2006, Boston, MA: November 10, 2006.
Cobb, Judy, Janet Eke, Jay Goodkin, Tom Habing, Richard Pearce-Moses, Shweta Rani, and Richard
Urban. "Technical Architecture Overview: Tools for Acquisition, Packaging, and Ingest of Web
Objects into Multiple Repositories."
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006), Chapel Hill, NC: June 12, 2006.
Habing, Thomas G. "Distributed Functionality for the UIUC OAI Registry."
Distributed Services Registry Workshop, Scarman House, University of Warwick, UK: July 14,
2005.
Habing, Thomas G. "The Basics of XSLT."
Slavic Digital Text Workshop: Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: July 8, 2005.
Habing, Thomas G. "'Quick and Dirty' Rendering with XLST and CSS and a Little JavaScript."
14th Annual Slavic Librarians' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: July
7, 2004.
Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing and Ying-ping Chen. "Enriching Metadata
for XML Journal Articles through Extraction of MathML and Function Names."
Enhancing the Searching of Mathematics IMA Hot Topics Workshop, University of Minnesota:
April 2004.
Habing, Thomas G. "Introduction to XML: Part I and Part II."
E-Text Working Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: January 15 and February
19, 2004.
Habing, Thomas G. "Introduction to XSLT & its use in Grainger Library full-text &
metadata projects."
Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(ASIS&T), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: November 17, 2003.
Habing, Thomas G. "De-dupping OAI harvested records."
OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop at JCDL 2003: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,
Houston, TX: May 31, 2003.
Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, and Thomas G. Habing. "Introduction to the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting."
JCDL 2003: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, TX: May 27, 2003.
Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, and Thomas G. Habing. "Introduction to XSLT & its use
in Grainger Library full-text & metadata projects."
The Electronic Publishing Research Group (EPRG), Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: April 17, 2003.
Habing, Thomas G. and Timothy W. Cole, "XML Tutorials."
Colorado Digitization Program and Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Denver, CO:
October 23-24, 2002.
Mischo, William H. and Thomas G. Habing. "Integration of Simultaneous Searching and
Reference Linking Across Bibliographic Resources on the Web."
JCDL 2002: Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR:
July 16, 2002.
Prom, Christopher J. and Thomas G. Habing. "Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocols
with EAD."
JCDL 2002: Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR:
July 16, 2002.
Habing, Thomas G. "Experiences Implementing OAI Provider Services."
SIGIR 2001: 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, Post Conference Workshop on Open Archives: Communities,
Interoperability, and Services, New Orleans, LA: September 13, 2001.
Cole, Timothy W. and Thomas G. Habing. "Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol
& the Representation of Metadata in XML."
University Library, Urbana, IL: March 30, 2001.
Habing, Thomas G. "Metadata and Linking."
LIS 450 DS course, Implementation of Distributed Information System, Urbana, IL: January
30, 2001.
Cole, Timothy W. and Thomas G. Habing. "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: OAI
Alpha Experiences."
Open Archives Initiative: Open Day for the U.S., Washington, D.C.: January 23, 2001.
Cole, Timothy W., William H. Mischo, Robert Ferrer, and Thomas G. Habing. "Using XML, XSLT, and
CSS in a Digital Library."
ASIS 2000: Knowledge Innovations -- 63rd American Society for Information Science Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL: November 15, 2000.
Cole, Timothy W., Thomas G. Habing, and William H. Mischo. "Illinois D-Lib Testbed:
Technologies for Converting Legacy Mathematics for Display on the Web."
MathML and Math on the Web, Urbana, IL: October 21, 2000.
Habing, Thomas G. "Demonstration of DeLIver System."
LIS 250 EMT course, Emerging Technologies, Urbana, IL: September 29, 2000.
Habing, Thomas G. "SGML Conversions," "ISO 11179," "Cross-collection Repository," "Rendering
Full-text and Metadata," "Styling XML Markup," and "Rendering MathML Using IE5." 6
th Annual UIUC D-LIB Collaborating Partners Workshop, Urbana, IL: September 7-8,
2000.
Cole, Timothy W. and Thomas G. Habing. "Extensible Markup Language (XML)."
Tutorial and Workshop presented to faculty and staff of the University Library, Urbana,
IL: June 2, 2000.
Habing, Thomas G. "ISO 11179-3."
D-Lib Test Suite Project Meeting, Urbana, IL: April 11, 2000.
