Peter is a technologist with a librarian background and a keen sense of how to apply the right solution to an issue. With training in the field of Systems Analysis, he is able to translate between librarian jargon and computing/networking jargon to bring the two worlds together. He has over a decade of experience in higher education libraries, including eight years at members of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL), and actively participates in a wide variety of technical areas such as TCP/IP networking protocols, HTML/XHTML/XML markup, and metadata standards. Current interests involve digital object repositories, privacy, and distributed authentication/authorization systems, and JPEG 2000.