Howard Besser
New York University
Howard Besser is Professor of Cinema Studies and Founding Director of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP). Besser has been involved in the early stages of many metadata projects including the Dublin Core, Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (Z39.87), the Metadata Coding and Transmission Standard (METS), and preservation metadata (PREMIS)
. He has written extensive on information policy issues, particularly how those affect communities with little political or economic power.