The University of Houston community is invited to a keynote by Dr. Sayeed Choudhury, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Scholar-in-Residence, on April 7, 2022, from 4:00–6:30pm, at the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, MD Anderson Library.

Dr. Sayeed Choudhury, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Scholar-in-Residence, will deliver a keynote on April 7, 2022.

In his talk, Rising to the Challenges of a Post-Covid World through the Open Source Revolution, Choudhury will address the “planetary reboot” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the open source revolution models a mode of cooperation that universities can leverage to meet the historic challenges posed by social and health crises, climate change, and vulnerabilities to our increasingly interconnected systems.

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Maps & Directions
To access the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, use the staircase or elevator to the right within the main entrance of MD Anderson Library.

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the associate dean for research data management and Hodson director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He leads the University’s open source programs office. He has oversight for data curation research and development and data archive implementation at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, CNI, JISC-CNI, DLF, ALA, ACRL, and international venues including IFLA, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable, eResearch Australasia, the North America-China Conference, eResearch New Zealand and the Arabian-Gulf Chapter of the Special Libraries Conference. Choudhury is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science based at Johns Hopkins. Other career highlights include:

• President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board
• Member of the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data
• Member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information and the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
• Has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology
• Member of the board of the National Information Standards Organization, OpenAIRE2020, DuraSpace, the ICPSR Council, Digital Library Federation advisory committee, Library of Congress’ National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Federation of Earth Scientists Information Partnership (ESIP) Executive Committee and the Project MUSE Advisory Board
• Member of the ECAR Data Curation Working Group
• Past Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources
• Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Recipient of the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award
• Past principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Microsoft Research, and a Maryland based venture capital group
• Product Owner for the Data Conservancy which focuses on the development of data curation infrastructure and the Public Access Submission System which supports simultaneous submission of articles to PubMedCentral and institutional repositories

Elizabeth D. Rockwell Lecture and Residency Program