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Peter Brantley

Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation

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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 the Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.

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9:15am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Literature as a (Web) Service
Keynote
 Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation)
The explosion of publications on the web, in combination with increasingly ubiquitous broadband networks, accessible from ever-more mobile computing platforms, leads us to consider how literature might serve as a collection of data to enable new services on the web. Read more.
2:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
What's Your Mobile Strategy?
General
 Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Kate Eltham (Queensland Writers Centre), Marc Prud'hommeaux (Lexcycle), Brent Lewis (Harlequin), Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation)
More than half the world's population now has a mobile phone. What are the benefits of integrating a mobile content strategy into your publishing process? Can you afford to ignore it, or push it to the edges of your business? Read more.
11:00am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
New Reading Habits, New Distribution Models
General
 Location: Chelsea-Gotham (7th Floor)
Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation), Susan Danziger (DailyLit), Sol Rosenberg (Value Chain International, Ltd.), David Wilk (Booktrix), Caroline Vanderlip (SharedBook Inc.), Jamie Carter (Publisher Alley)
We are in a transitional period: basic reading and distribution patterns are carrying over from traditional models, but these methods are also being shaped by new habits and systems that are only beginning to emerge. This panel will discuss the implications of this reading/distribution transition, the new economics at play, and the impact technology will have on future reading. Read more.
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