Robert McDonald
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Robert H. McDonald is the Associate Dean Research and Technology Strategies and an Deputy Director in the Data to Insight Institute at Indiana University where he leads the library information technology department and the digital library program. Formerly he was the lead for strategic data alliances and Co-Project Manager for the Chronopolis Data Preservation Initiative at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)/UC San Diego. Mr. McDonald is an active speaker and writer and has presented previously at the conferences of EDUCAUSE, the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, the Coalition for Networked Information, iPRES, MERLOT, and the American Library Association. His article on building communities in academic software development can be found in Educause Review 44(5).