Whats been rewarding about working with the Library of Congress and NARA?
Moore: The collaborations with NARA have shown that generic data management infrastructure can be used to support not only data sharing, but also data preservation. We also collaborate with the digital library community. The integration of the SRB technology with the DSpace digital library and the Fedora digital library is just as important. The digital libraries gain the ability to manage collections that exceed the size of the local file system, gain support for replication, and gain the ability to federate with other digital libraries. These efforts are showing that generic data virtualization infrastructure can be used by all of the data management mechanisms whether for data sharing, data publication, or data preservation. Q. Tell us about your genealogy hobby? Moore: I have been working on my family genealogy for the last 15 years in my spare time. This evolved into an effort to understand the properties of genealogies in terms of completeness, closure, extent, and coverage. My g
