Stephen Abrams is the Senior Manager for Digital Preservation Technology at the California Digital Library (CDL) of the University of California, with responsibility for strategic planning, design, and operation of the CDL's preservation infrastructure. He was the ISO project leader and document editor for the PDF/A standard, ISO 19005-1; the architect and project manager for the JHOVE characterization framework; and the initiator of the Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) project. He is now leading the multi-institutional JHOVE2 project to develop a next-generation architecture for digital object characterization. Mr. Abrams holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Boston University and a graduate degree in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. He is a member of the ACM, ALA, ASIS&T, IEEE Computer Society, and LITA.

Robert Buckley is a Research Fellow with the Xerox Research Center Webster in Webster, NY. He has been with Xerox since 1981, when he joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center after receiving a PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He also has an MA in Psychology and Physiology from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick. During his career at Xerox, he has held research management and project leadership positions in color imaging and systems and has worked on color printing, image processing, enterprise coherence and standards for color documents and images.

He is the Xerox representative on the US JPEG 2000 committee and was the Project Editor for Part 6 of the JPEG 2000 standard, which defines the JPEG 2000 file format for compound and document images. He currently chairs the CIE Technical Committee on Archival Color Imaging and was founding co-chair of the IS&T Archiving Conference. He is a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T) and Past-President of the Inter-Society Color Council.

Don Williams has worked as a research imaging scientist at Eastman Kodak in digital imaging since its infancy over 25 years ago. His efforts in the field have concentrated on metrology, image fidelity, quality control, and imaging performance standardization issues especially as they relate to practical workflow adoption. He has published extensively in these areas. He is currently a consultant to the international cultural heritage community and frequently teaches on such matters. Don is the editor for ISO 12233, 2nd edition, Spatial Resolution Measurements, Digital Still Cameras and has acted as co-leader for equivalent performance standards on reflection and film scanners. His influence has also extended into the mobile imaging arena where he is the sector leader for resolution measurement for Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) imaging industry initiative.