Biography

Dr. John J. Leggett is Professor of Computer Science and Library Science, Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives, Director of the Texas A&M University Digital Library, co-Director of the Texas Digital Library, and holder of the Ford Endowed Professorship at Texas A&M University.  His research efforts over the last 20 years have been focused on information technologies for scholarly work.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals and presented numerous invited talks internationally.  He was a founding editor of the open access Journal of Digital Information and previously served as Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems.  He has been instrumental in forming the Hypertext, Digital Libraries and Open Repositories conference series.

Research Interests

Distributed Repository Architectures, Preservation Networks, Scholarly Communication, Digital Libraries, Collection Understanding, Story Telling Engines, Humanities Informatics, Computational Media, Information Science and Technology, Computer-Supported Collaboration, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems

Recent Publications

• Maslov, A., Mikeal, A. and Leggett, J.  "Cooperation or Control?  Web 2.0 and the Digital Library". Accepted to appear in The Journal of Digital Information, Vol. 9, No. 28, Fall, 2008.
• Mikeal, A., Paz, J., Phillips, S., Brace, T., Koenig, J., Leggett, J. and McFarland, M. “ETD Management in the Texas Digital Library: Lessons Learned from a Demonstrator”.  Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 4-7, 2008.
• Phillips, S., Creel, J., Green, C., Li, Y., Maslov, A., Mattingly, P., Mikeal, A., Paz, J., Leggett, J. and McFarland, M.  "Manakin: Lessons Learned".  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Repositories, Southampton, England,  April 1-4, 2008.
• Phillips, S., Green, C., Maslov, A., Mikeal, A. and Leggett, J.  “Manakin: A New Face for DSpace”.  D-Lib, Vol. 13, No. 11/12, November/December, 2007.
• Mikeal, A., Brace, T., Leggett, J. and McFarland, M. “Developing a Common Submission System for ETDs in the Texas Digital Library”. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007.
• A. Mikeal, C. Green, A. Maslov, S. Phillips and J. Leggett. “Preserving the Scholarly Side of the Web”. Proceedings of the 4^th Latin American Web Congress, Puebla, Mexico, October 25-27, 2006.

Recent Presentations

• Phillips, S., Mattingly, P., Leggett, J. and McFarland, M. “Moving Forward with Shibboleth”.  Presented at the Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, D.C.,  December 10, 2007.
• Leggett, J., Mattingly, P. and McFarland, M. “Shibboleth in the Texas Digital Library”.  Presented at the Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet A.C. (Internet 2 – Mexico), Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, October 18, 2007.
• Maslov, A., Leggett, J. and McFarland, M.  “Sharing the burden: designing the TDL Preservation Network”.  Presented at the inaugural meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, Stanford University, Stanford, California, June 6, 2007.
• Leggett, J. and McFarland, M. “Overview of the Texas Digital Library”. Presented at the inaugural meeting of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, Texas, May 30, 2007.
• Leggett, J. “Digital Initiatives Research and Technology”.  Presented at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 3, 2007.
• Leggett, J. and McFarland, M. “The Texas Digital Library”.  Presented at the Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet A.C. (Internet 2 – Mexico), Torreon, Coahuilla, Mexico, March 21, 2007.

Recent Grants

• Leggett, J. and McFarland, M., Project Directors, “The Texas ETD Repository: Promoting Our Scholarship and Preserving Our Legacy, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, National Leadership Grant, LG-05-07-0095-07, 2007-2010.