Dr. Debby Wilson Danard
Traditional Knowledge Practitioner & Life Promotion Ambassador
Dr. Debby Wilson Danard (PhD, MEd, BEd) is Anishinaabekwe traditional knowledge practitioner, visual and performance artist, lecturer, writer, water protector, life promotion ambassador and sturgeon clan member from Rainy River First Nation. Growing up, she was raised with her grandmother’s love and commitment to sharing traditional Anishinaabek teachings and way of life.
As multidisciplinary artist and social justice education scholar; Debby has advanced cultural visual literacy engaging Anishinaabe knowledge systems and land-based learning to expand individual and collective community Indigenous visual (sensory) cultural expression.
She is the Matriarch of Indigipedia.ca #unceded knowledge which is a new and developing crowd-based database to connect with & reclaim Indigenous knowledge and living history, curated from an Indigenous cultural lens. The focus of this indigenous and digital platform is cultural connection, while supporting a shared vision of reconciliation.
Sandra Craig
Ontario Legislative Library
Sandra Craig, Ontario Legislative Library, Supervisor, Metadata Services. Sandra is involved in building and maintaining the Legislative Library's collection of print and digital Ontario government documents and making resources discoverable through the online catalogue. She's also involved with web archiving activities and digital preservation.
Lisc Daley
Northwest Territories Legislative Library
Lisc Daley is a status First Nations from Kitigan Zibi. She is grateful to be a long term guest of Dene, Inuvialuit, and the Metis.
Ravit H. David
University of Toronto
Robin Desmeules
McGill University
Robin Desmeules is a Cataloguing Librarian at McGill University and works with rare and special materials. Her work focuses on critical approaches to knowledge organization, experimenting and implementing linked data for special collections, and community generated naming systems. She is a past co-chair of the CFLA IMC Joint Working Group on Classification and Subject Headings.
Brian Stearns
University of Alberta
Brian Stearns is a Cataloguing Librarian at the University of Alberta. He is currently co-chairing the Decolonizing Description Project, a consortial effort to develop more respectful subject headings relating to Indigenous peoples and topics.
Gisele Ramgoolan
NorQuest College Library
Gisele Ramgoolam is a Cataloguing Technician and has worked at NorQuest College Library in Edmonton, Alberta for the past 17 years. She oversees the library’s cataloguing and collection development services and leads the decolonization of the library collection at NorQuest College. She is co-chair of the NEOS Consortium’s Decolonization Description Working Group.
Jill Stuart
London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She is an academic based at the London School of Economics.
Jacob Turner
Lawyer and Author
Jacob Turner is a lawyer specialising in AI regulation. He is the author of ‘Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Jacob advises governments, regulators and private sector organisations worldwide on the regulation of AI. His views on regulating AI have been sought by organisations including a Middle Eastern government, the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Government of Flanders, and the European Commission. He has given seminars to the Chinese Government and Military on AI at the invitation of the UN, and also delivered training on AI to the judiciaries of the UAE and Singapore.
Mark Goodwin
University of British Columbia
As the Metadata Coordinator for the Geodisy project, Mark works alongside the Alliance's FRDR team to provide expertise for creation, management, and presentation of metadata for geospatial discovery. Mark is passionate about improving access to information and is excited to help enhance discoverability of research data in Canada.
Doug Brigham and Joseph Hafner
Tom Smythe
Library and Archives Canada
Tom J. Smyth, MA, MISt, PMP is a senior librarian and manager of the Digital Preservation group within the Digital Services Sector at Library and Archives Canada. He has led and contributed to developing digital library, archival, web archiving, and digital preservation programs, projects, services, and operations at LAC since 2013.
Janet Bennett
Library of Parliament
Janet Bennett is the Manager, Preservation with the Library of Parliament. Her team is responsible for preserving, conserving, and digitizing the Library’s historical materials as well as maintaining the Parlinfo web resource and contributing to the LEGISinfo portal.
Melanie Brown
Chair, OGLC
Melanie is an information professional who has a passion for using information in an active and forward-thinking way to facilitate good decision-making for competitive advantage. She is currently the Information and Digital Resource Specialist at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. She is also the chair of the Ontario Government Libraries Council (OGLC).
Melanie started her career as a Senior Information Specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital. She created, launched and managed ThinkFood! Information Cafe, a physical and digital corporate library. Here she launched a company wide automated library software system and intranet; and developed and delivered training for corporate employees to leverage information for competitive advantage. In addition to building and managing an innovation centre and library, she has written scientific articles, presented at numerous conferences, lectured at universities, and hosted a science radio show.
Sean Smith
Archives of Ontario
Sean Smith is a Senior Archivist in the Collections Development and Management Unit at the Archives of Ontario, located in Toronto, Ontario. He previously held positions at the Clara Thomas Archives at York University and Library and Archives Canada. In total, he has been preserving and sharing history for over 20 years. During the pandemic, he has been focused on issues related to community engagement, GLAM Wiki and digital records. He is an active member of the archival community in Canada as well as a runner, a reader and a father of two.
Alison Little
Archives of Ontario
Nicole Bonnell
Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly
Nicole Bonnell is the Manager of Public Affairs and Communications with the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. Over the last 10 years, she has worked extensively on government policy related to official language service provision in the NWT. In her current role, Nicole is responsible for managing the Assembly’s official languages programming, including sessional interpretation in 11 official languages.
Andrea Mills
Internet Archive Canada
Sam-chin Li
University of Toronto
Sam-chin Li is the Government information librarian at the University of Toronto. She has worked on many digitization and web archiving projects for government information. She is the co-editor of the award-winning book Government Information in Canada: Access and Stewardship.
Lorissa Kinna
Law Society of Ontario
Lorissa Kinna is a Reference Librarian at the Law Society of Ontario's Great Library. Before starting at the Great Library in 2018, Lorissa worked in different academic librarian jobs at the University of Toronto and York University. Since working at the Great Library, she has given many one-on-one and group tutorials both in person and online about legal and legislative research.
Vicky Luu
Ontario Legislative Assembly
Vicky is a Collections and Acquisitions Technician at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. She monitors and catalogues government and commercial documents and publications. She is a graduate of the Seneca College Library and Information Technician program.
Graeme Campbell
Queen’s University
Graeme Campbell is the Open Government Librarian at Queen’s University Library and a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership project. His current research interests focus on how Canadian government information is disseminated, accessed, and preserved.
Amber Leahey
University of Toronto
Amber is the Data & GIS Librarian at Scholars Portal, a digital library project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries.
Traditional Knowledge Practitioner & Life Promotion Ambassador
Dr. Debby Wilson Danard (PhD, MEd, BEd) is Anishinaabekwe traditional knowledge practitioner, visual and performance artist, lecturer, writer, water protector, life promotion ambassador and sturgeon clan member from Rainy River First Nation. Growing up, she was raised with her grandmother’s love and commitment to sharing traditional Anishinaabek teachings and way of life.
As multidisciplinary artist and social justice education scholar; Debby has advanced cultural visual literacy engaging Anishinaabe knowledge systems and land-based learning to expand individual and collective community Indigenous visual (sensory) cultural expression.
She is the Matriarch of Indigipedia.ca #unceded knowledge which is a new and developing crowd-based database to connect with & reclaim Indigenous knowledge and living history, curated from an Indigenous cultural lens. The focus of this indigenous and digital platform is cultural connection, while supporting a shared vision of reconciliation.
Sandra Craig
Ontario Legislative Library
Sandra Craig, Ontario Legislative Library, Supervisor, Metadata Services. Sandra is involved in building and maintaining the Legislative Library's collection of print and digital Ontario government documents and making resources discoverable through the online catalogue. She's also involved with web archiving activities and digital preservation.
Lisc Daley
Northwest Territories Legislative Library
Lisc Daley is a status First Nations from Kitigan Zibi. She is grateful to be a long term guest of Dene, Inuvialuit, and the Metis.
Ravit H. David
University of Toronto
Robin Desmeules
McGill University
Robin Desmeules is a Cataloguing Librarian at McGill University and works with rare and special materials. Her work focuses on critical approaches to knowledge organization, experimenting and implementing linked data for special collections, and community generated naming systems. She is a past co-chair of the CFLA IMC Joint Working Group on Classification and Subject Headings.
Brian Stearns
University of Alberta
Brian Stearns is a Cataloguing Librarian at the University of Alberta. He is currently co-chairing the Decolonizing Description Project, a consortial effort to develop more respectful subject headings relating to Indigenous peoples and topics.
Gisele Ramgoolan
NorQuest College Library
Gisele Ramgoolam is a Cataloguing Technician and has worked at NorQuest College Library in Edmonton, Alberta for the past 17 years. She oversees the library’s cataloguing and collection development services and leads the decolonization of the library collection at NorQuest College. She is co-chair of the NEOS Consortium’s Decolonization Description Working Group.
Jill Stuart
London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She is an academic based at the London School of Economics.
Jacob Turner
Lawyer and Author
Jacob Turner is a lawyer specialising in AI regulation. He is the author of ‘Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Jacob advises governments, regulators and private sector organisations worldwide on the regulation of AI. His views on regulating AI have been sought by organisations including a Middle Eastern government, the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Government of Flanders, and the European Commission. He has given seminars to the Chinese Government and Military on AI at the invitation of the UN, and also delivered training on AI to the judiciaries of the UAE and Singapore.
Mark Goodwin
University of British Columbia
As the Metadata Coordinator for the Geodisy project, Mark works alongside the Alliance's FRDR team to provide expertise for creation, management, and presentation of metadata for geospatial discovery. Mark is passionate about improving access to information and is excited to help enhance discoverability of research data in Canada.
Doug Brigham and Joseph Hafner
Tom Smythe
Library and Archives Canada
Tom J. Smyth, MA, MISt, PMP is a senior librarian and manager of the Digital Preservation group within the Digital Services Sector at Library and Archives Canada. He has led and contributed to developing digital library, archival, web archiving, and digital preservation programs, projects, services, and operations at LAC since 2013.
Janet Bennett
Library of Parliament
Janet Bennett is the Manager, Preservation with the Library of Parliament. Her team is responsible for preserving, conserving, and digitizing the Library’s historical materials as well as maintaining the Parlinfo web resource and contributing to the LEGISinfo portal.
Melanie Brown
Chair, OGLC
Melanie is an information professional who has a passion for using information in an active and forward-thinking way to facilitate good decision-making for competitive advantage. She is currently the Information and Digital Resource Specialist at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. She is also the chair of the Ontario Government Libraries Council (OGLC).
Melanie started her career as a Senior Information Specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital. She created, launched and managed ThinkFood! Information Cafe, a physical and digital corporate library. Here she launched a company wide automated library software system and intranet; and developed and delivered training for corporate employees to leverage information for competitive advantage. In addition to building and managing an innovation centre and library, she has written scientific articles, presented at numerous conferences, lectured at universities, and hosted a science radio show.
Sean Smith
Archives of Ontario
Sean Smith is a Senior Archivist in the Collections Development and Management Unit at the Archives of Ontario, located in Toronto, Ontario. He previously held positions at the Clara Thomas Archives at York University and Library and Archives Canada. In total, he has been preserving and sharing history for over 20 years. During the pandemic, he has been focused on issues related to community engagement, GLAM Wiki and digital records. He is an active member of the archival community in Canada as well as a runner, a reader and a father of two.
Alison Little
Archives of Ontario
Nicole Bonnell
Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly
Nicole Bonnell is the Manager of Public Affairs and Communications with the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. Over the last 10 years, she has worked extensively on government policy related to official language service provision in the NWT. In her current role, Nicole is responsible for managing the Assembly’s official languages programming, including sessional interpretation in 11 official languages.
Andrea Mills
Internet Archive Canada
Sam-chin Li
University of Toronto
Sam-chin Li is the Government information librarian at the University of Toronto. She has worked on many digitization and web archiving projects for government information. She is the co-editor of the award-winning book Government Information in Canada: Access and Stewardship.
Lorissa Kinna
Law Society of Ontario
Lorissa Kinna is a Reference Librarian at the Law Society of Ontario's Great Library. Before starting at the Great Library in 2018, Lorissa worked in different academic librarian jobs at the University of Toronto and York University. Since working at the Great Library, she has given many one-on-one and group tutorials both in person and online about legal and legislative research.
Vicky Luu
Ontario Legislative Assembly
Vicky is a Collections and Acquisitions Technician at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. She monitors and catalogues government and commercial documents and publications. She is a graduate of the Seneca College Library and Information Technician program.
Graeme Campbell
Queen’s University
Graeme Campbell is the Open Government Librarian at Queen’s University Library and a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership project. His current research interests focus on how Canadian government information is disseminated, accessed, and preserved.
Amber Leahey
University of Toronto
Amber is the Data & GIS Librarian at Scholars Portal, a digital library project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries.
