University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street, JRL 220P
Chicago, IL 60637 U.S.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0658-1809
Positions Held
Director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library, 2012-
Co-Director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library, 1999-2011
Manager, Digital Library Systems, University of Chicago Library, 1998-1999
Manager, Information Resources and Server Administration, University of Chicago Library, 1994-1998
Systems Librarian for Microcomputing Operations, University of Chicago Library, 1991-1994
Programmer/Analyst, University of Chicago Library, 1985-1991
Library Operations Analyst, University of Chicago Library, 1984-1991
Professional Activities
NEH, UChicagoNode, 2024-2027 (Technical Development Oversight)
Mellon, Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community: Attachment Converter: Preserving the Context of Electronic Correspondence, 2021-2023 (Principal Investigator)
NSF Award Number 1450455, Enhancing Indigenous Language Infrastructure, 2020-2022 (Senior Personnel)
NSF Award Number 1450455, SI2-SSI: CRESCAT, A Computational Research Ecosystem for Scientific Collaboration on Ancient Topics, Spanning the Full Data Life Cycle, 2015-2019 (Senior Personnel)
PREMIS Ontology Working Group, 2015-2018
Chicago Collections Consortium Discovery Systems Committee, 2012-2021 (Co-chair, 2014-2021)
Chicago Collections Consortium Technology Working Group, 2011-2012
Convener, Digital Library Federation Developers Roundtable, 2008-2012
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Kernel Metadata Task Group, 2008-2011
Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group, 2003-2005
Technical Director, eCUIP: Digital Library Project of the Chicago Public Schools 2000-2012
Projects
Library Digital Repository.
2006-. Project Manager
and Co-Designer.
The University of Chicago
Photographic Archive.
2006-.
Project Manager and Co-Developer.
https://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/
UNCAP: Uncovering New Chicago
Archives Project.
2006-2008.
Technical Coordinator.
Archives and Manuscripts
Finding Aids.
2004.
Project Manager.
https://ead.lib.uchicago.edu/
OAI-PMH provider.
2004.
Developer.
http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu/?verb=Identify
Chopin Early Editions.
2004.
Project Manager.
https://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
Persistent URL Resolver.
2003.
Designer and Developer.
https://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/dig/chopin/001
Publications
Charles Blair, Lina Bountouri,
Bertrand Caron, Esmé Cowles, Angela Di Iorio, Rebecca Guenther, Evelyn
McLellan, Elizabeth Russey Roke,
PREMIS 3 OWL Ontology: Engaging
Sets of Linked Data.
iPRES 2018.
2018-09-20.
Rebecca Guenther et al.,
Guidelines for using the PREMIS Version 3 OWL Ontology.
Library of Congress. Standards.
2018-01-02.
Charles Blair,
"Aplicando el modelo de
datos de Europeana a un repositorio de biblioteca
digital" [Applying the Europeana Data Model to a
Library Digital Repository].
Tábula. Estudios
archivísticos de Castilla y
León.
N. 18, 2015,
pp. 105-108.
Charles Blair,
"Que llaman estar
nerbado: the Spanish response to the Italian
fencing tradition, 1665-1714".
Acta Periodica
Duellatorum. Volume 2015, Issue 1, pp. 63-100,
ISSN (Online) 2064-0404, DOI: 10.1515/apd-2015-0003,
September
2015.
Charles Blair,
"The Neapolitan School of
Fencing: Its Origins and Early Characteristics".
Acta Periodica Duellatorum.
Volume 2014, pp. 9-26.
Barbara Kern,
Dean Armstrong,
Charles Blair,
David Farley,
Kathleen Feeney,
Eileen Ielmini,
Elisabeth Long,
Daniel Meyer,
and Peggy Wilkins,
"The SDSS and e-science
archiving at the University of Chicago
Library",
International
Association of Scientific and Technological University
Libraries, 31st Annual Conference, Paper 9,
2010.
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/conf/day2/9
John Kunze,
Charles Blair,
"Temporal Enumerated Ranges
(TEMPER)", Internet
Draft, 2007.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-temper-01
Muriel
Foulonneau, Timothy
W. Cole, Charles Blair,
Peter
C. Gorman, Kat Hagedorn,
and
Jenn
Riley, "The CIC
metadata portal: A Collaborative Effort in the Area of
Digital
Libraries", Science
& Technology Libraries, Vol. 26, No. 3/4,
2006,
111-135.
Priscilla
Caplan, Rebecca
Guenther, et
al., Data Dictionary
for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the
PREMIS Working Group (version 1.0),
May 2005.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf