Martha is Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress. The program has developed a network of over 100 partners, nationally and internationally, to collect and preserve at-risk digital content. Early in the program, she participated in the Preservation Architecture Working Group and managed the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) with four University partners - Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion University. The AIHT, the first practical test of the NDIIPP preservation architectural model, simulated migration and transfer of an archive of web content over time. She manages the capture of web content in support of the Library's Digital Strategic Initiatives Program and is the Library's program officer for the Web-at-Risk, California Digital Library Project.
During the first charter period, 2003-2006, of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), she chaired the Metrics and Testbed working group. The IIPC is an international organization of 11 national libraries and the Internet Archive dedicated to collecting and archiving significant content from the Web. In the second charter period, she now serves on the Steering Committee managing communications and membership. Before coming to the Library in 1996, she worked with microfilm and digital publishing projects for Chadwyck-Healey and Compact Publishing. She is a former American history and French teacher and worked in secondary school and community college libraries.
