I'm Lucia and I'm a professor in the Library of Information Science Program
at University of Denver.
I'm also a vice chair of Library of the Lifflaw Library and the Phoebe
Research Section.
It is my distinct pleasure to introduce our keynote, Mr. Kehl, who's going to
talk about digital preservation this afternoon.
And those are one of the leaders in the digital library field who
probably doesn't leave any introduction.
I think all of us who are working in the library and archives field are familiar
with his phenomenal work to provide access and preserve millions
of books and other types of resources in the Internet archive.
In the interest of time, I just want to say a few words about his background.
Brewster is a founder and a digital librarian in the Internet archive.
One of the largest digital libraries in the world that provides access and
ensures the preservation of millions of books and other types of resources in
the digital format.
He was also a long career marked by innovation and visionary thinking.
Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, he
studied artificial intelligence, by the way, because we're talking so much about
it, so I wanted to mention it.
Brewster helped to fund a company, Thinking Machines, which is a
parallel supercomputer maker.
Then he was involved in the Internet first publishing system called Wide Area
Information Server, Waze.
It was sold to AOL.
Then he co-founded Alexa Internet, which helped to catalog the web
and then sold to Amazon.
Then the Department of Internet Archive was founded in 1996 and now preserves
over 99 terabytes of data and that is
books, web pages, music, television, software, and other types of cultural
heritage materials with more than 400 library and university partners who are
involved in completing and preserving information that is accessible
and open to all of us.
Thank you very much, Brewster.