Mark Saussure
Director, Digital Library Infrastructure, Information Technology Services,
The Pennsylvania State University

"It's all about the metadata and XAM delivers."

Information Technology Services, the central IT organization for The Pennsylvania State University, provides the computing infrastructure for the University Libraries. In collaboration with the Libraries and other units within the University Mark is focused on providing the infrastructure for digital content storage, including digital library collections, electronic record archiving, and e-science/e-research data access. Active with the SNIA XAM Initiative Mark has been an advocate to broaden the scope of XAM to enable more robust long term preservation, storage and access to digital collections through the adoption into a wider range of storage hardware.