Current focus is on Rural Carpool, an enabling infrastructure for helping rural drivers self-organize to share trips to larger towns and urban areas, to save $$$ and CO₂. Initial experimentation is in Michael's own rural region of Nova Scotia.

Responsibilities included strategic development of technology and data infrastructure for maximizing services to publishers, streamlining back office digital processes, and implementing our client-facing Services Portal so that clients can know the statuses of their publishing projects in real time.

Digital publishing strategies, systems integration, daylong strategic planning workshops, etc., especially for nonprofit, mission-driven publishers.

Worked to develop sustainable practices, experimented with low-impact farming, and developed community-resilience systems in rural Nova Scotia (supported the Local Economic Trading System by building an online membership system, got to beta building a local RideShare site, etc.).

Advises the institution and the Press on strategic opportunities, identifies and researches arenas appropriate for furthering National Academies' communications goals, produces white papers and recommendations, engages in special projects, and develops experiments in knowledge discovery and outreach.

Directs the Enterprise for Publishing and Outreach using Web Resources (EPOWR), for the Office of Communications of the National Academies. EPOWR's goals are to expand the reach and significance of the Academies enterprises via digital tools, empower staff with tools and systems to promote their efforts, and enable coordinated efforts across the institution. Responsible for development of lexical clustering, site navigation and consistency, sitewide search, usability testing, raising staff engagement, promoting digital outreach, and web communication standards. Included continuing as:

In charge of dissemination and publication technologies for the National Academies Press, publishers for The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, The National Research Council, and The Institute of Medicine. Direct supervision and oversight of Internet and Information Systems, Internet Production, and Infrastructure departments. EPOWR staff make nearly 200 titles/year available in page image, PDF, HTML, or other formats. During Michael's tenure the site freely provided full world access to more than 750,000 pages comprising 4000 titles, delivering more than 1,500,000 Web pages per week to more than 200,000 to 400,000 visitors per week. He was the principle architect of the Openbook presentation system, designed to allow easy access to NAP page images via direct URL structures that integrate meta-information and the text OCRed from those pages. Principle developer of: within-book search systems; patent-pending content processing methodology which allows meaningful sitewide searching of National Academies-wide search results, called the Discovery Engine; the Research Dashboard; the Phrase Cloud; and ReferenceFinder; and other knowledge discovery, exploration, and distillation systems.

Responsible for acquisition and development of new and reconfigured electronic publications for the oldest university press in the US; supervision and oversight of system development and developers; architect for navigational underpinnings of user interface for all online projects and systems for online subscription mechanisms. Major projects included digital versions of The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (winner of the Association of American Publisher's 1997 "Best Electronic Product - Internet - Social Sciences/Humanities" award), and Walker's Mammals of the World Online. Other responsibilities included leadership and development of Project Muse, a joint project of JHUP and JHU MSE Library, publishing the Press's 40+ journals digitally using the domain-access subscription model.

Responsible for internal and external electronic information systems development for the University of Nebraska Press, one of the five largest state university presses in the country. Direct supervision of two full-time and four part-time staff members. Responsibilities included direction of all internal information system development, such as integrating database, wordprocessing, desktop publishing, and spreadsheet information Press-wide; identifying, testing, and installing software; and performing network maintenance and hardware system development. The position also included envisioning, planning, acquiring funding, and enacting the Press's electronic publishing program.

• Electronic Manuscript Specialist (reclassification, University of Nebraska Press) 7/88
• Lead Typesetter, University of Nebraska Press, 2/87
• Type & Layout Manager, Accent Printing, Lincoln, NE, 7/85
• Penta System Manager, Jarrett Engineering, Bloomington, IN, 3/84
• Typesetter, Rock Associates/Jarrett Engineering, Bloomington, IN, 9/83
• Assistant Instructor, English, University of Denver, 9/81-6/83

Awards

• National Academies Presidents' Award, highest staff honor given, for "extraordinary and enduring contributions to the work of The National Academies," October 1, 2001.
• Association of University Presses, Constituency Award, the association's highest recognition, "In appreciation of his outstanding service to the university press community," May 1996
• Association of American Publishers, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division: Best Electronic Product – Internet – Social Sciences/Humanities, for The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Online, 1997 winner
• National Educational Media Network, Silver Apple Award, for Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography on CD-ROM, 1996
• University of Nebraska Board of Regents Commendation, "For meritorious service and dedication to improving the quality of the University," February 15, 1992

• Architect and Producer of the National Academies Press's Active Skim chapter skimming tool, with one-click chapter searching for key terms; also of the Web Search Builder that enables easy creation of complex searches for multiple engines from the key phrases of any chapter (02/05)
• Architect and Producer of the National Academies discovery engine and related lexically-based research tools like the "ReferenceFinder," providing semantically-enriched context-based results with "find more like this" capabilities for a decentralized organization (2/03)
• Architect and Producer of the National Academies search results post-processing presentation system, providing context-coordinated results for a decentralized organization (07/02)
• Director of the The History Cooperative's development of an open-access-leaning subscription model; architect and producer of the search engine of The History Cooperative, providing content- and context-based results for a multi-journal resource of scholarly value
• Architect and Producer, Americans for the Arts online library online page presentation system, to provide browsable, searchable access to archive and current publications from the organization.
• Architect and Producer, University of Illinois Press's Booker T. Washington Papers online page presentation system, as a model for an online documentary edition, enabling easy search and discovery. Housed by the History Cooperative; used by teachers and educators worldwide; visited by hundreds of thousands of students since its inception.
• Inventor, Contentsphere, a Web research tool (currently in deep-cold storage), as well as the "searchmaker," "content distiller," "plagiarism finder," and "metadata extractor" tools available at orderchaos.com
• Architect and Producer, National Academies Press OpenBook online book page presentation system, designed for inexpensive production, high-accuracy search and research, and functional browsing and page presentation.
• Architect and Producer, Walker's Mammals of the World Online, version 5.1, and The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (winner of the Association of American Publisher's 1997 "Best Electronic Product - Internet - Social Sciences/Humanities" award)
• Director, University Publishing Seminars, in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Ankara, Turkey, with Peter Givler (executive director of AAUP) and Colin Day (director, University of Michigan Press), to facilitate development of university, scholarly, and academic publishing in these two countries. The seminar in Turkey was a follow-up to the Turkish Publishing Seminar, listed below; 9/97
• Initiator and Director, Gallery of the Open Frontier Project, a University of Nebraska Press partnership with the National Archives established with $100,000 federally appropriated funds to digitize at least 5000 images pertaining to the history of the American West, identify or develop data structures for identifiers of the images, and produce an online testbed, 11/94-10/95. This project was an arm of the Library of the Open Frontier, a digital library project under development. Acquired continuation funding of $100,000 for second year, 11/95-10/96.
• Producer/Developer of the University of Nebraska Press's The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography on CD-ROM, by Dan L. Thrapp, comprised of 5500 biographical entries and 270 portraits hypertextually linked and indexed, published 3/95. Responsibility for overseeing digitization and proofreading, designed interface, digitized images, programmed within authoring software, wrote conversion software. Winner of a 1996 National Educational Media Network "Silver Apple" award.
• Director, Electronic Publishing Workshop II, a 2-day workshop for the Association of American University Presses, 6/96.
• Director, Electronic Publishing Workshop I, a 2-day workshop for the Association of American University Presses, including presentations by Adobe, NCSA, USGS, NII staff, Senatorial staff, and other speakers, 6/94.
• Director, Turkish Publishing Seminars, a 2.5-day workshop for Turkish University Presses and a 1-day workshop for Turkish commercial presses, in Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively, sponsored by the USIA, the AAUP, the Turkish Publishers Association, Ege University, and the Higher Education Council of Turkey, 4/94. Other members were Colin Day (Michigan), Lisa Freeman (Minnesota), and Bill Regier (Nebraska).
• Director, Electronic Publishing Workshop, 1-day workshop for the AAUP Southern Presses prior to their annual meeting, 3/94.
• Initiator and Project Director, University of Nebraska Library of the Open Frontier Digital Library Initiative, a four million dollar competitive grant proposal to the NSF developed jointly by the University of Nebraska Press, the UNL Libraries, the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and the Computing Resource Center, 2/94. Funding denied 8/94.
• Initiator and Director, International Publishers Symposium, a $170,000 USIA-funded 3-week visit by 17 publishers from 7 Eastern and Central European countries, for development of publishing skills, 6/93
• Initiator and Director, Electronic Publishing Workshop, 2-day workshop for the Association of American University Presses, including presentations by Adobe, Cognetics, Voyager, WordPerfect, and speakers on topics ranging from floppy publishing to CD-ROMs to online Internet publishing, 6/93.
• Initiator, Producer, and Programmer, Buros Institute for Mental Measurement's Mental Measurements Yearbook on CDROM, 10/91. Designed visual interface for information access, translated digital data into appropriate format, coordinated pressing, etc. Published 9/93.
• Acquired and Directed $12,000 funding from USIA for University of Nebraska Press Publisher Education Project, allowing Assistant Director, Production Manager, and Electronic Media Manager to spend five working days in Prague, Czechoslovakia educating two Czech university press staffs on Western university press publishing techniques, 10/91
• Wrote successful $34,000 USIA grant proposal for continuation of Czech project, including visit by seven members of the two Czech university presses to Lincoln, 6/92.
• Consultant to Stanford University Press and MIT Press on computerization, networking, information coordination, and database development, 12/91 and 8/92, respectively.
• Advised UNL Physics department on CDROM development for their NSF-funded educational CDROM, 3/91
• Initiated development of and acquired data for Internet on-line catalog of UNP titles with descriptive information and up-to-date prices; first searchable publisher's catalog on the Internet, 2/90.
• Compositor, The Telephone Book, by Avital Ronell (UNP, 1990), an award-winning publishing/typesetting/design phenomenon.

• Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of Scarcity, Plenary presentation at the Association of American University Presses' annual meeting, Philadelphia, 6/2009 (includes YouTube of presentation)
• Keynote Address for JSTOR's 2008 Participating Publisher Conference, New York, 5/2008
• The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, cover story, Volume 53, Issue 41, June 15, 2007, by Michael Jensen
• The Deep Niche, Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 10, No. 2, Spring 2007, by Michael Jensen
• Evolution, Intelligent Design, Climate Change, and the Scholarly Ecosystem, Keynote speech for the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) Biannual Meeting, March 30, 2006.
• Presses Have Little to Fear From Google, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Point of View, Volume 51, Issue 44, back page, July 7, 2005
  
• Selected Readings on Open Source, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section: Information Technology, Volume 51, Issue 5, Page B23, Sept. 21, 2004
  
• Invited chapter in A Companion to Digital Humanities (2005), John Unsworth, Susan Schreibman, and Ray Siemens, editors. Local copy of Michael Jensen's "Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating professionalism in the age of raw dissemination."
• Free Access and Increased Sales: The Online Paradox of The National Academies Press, presentation at the annual meeting of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the American Association of Publishers, 2/2004
• Beyond Google/Beyond Words, presentation at the 2/2003 Science Writers Association meeting, Denver.
  
• Invited Commentary in The Lancet, Feb. 8, 2003, entitled "Another Loss in the Privatisation Wars: PubScience"
  
• Free Access and Increased Sales: The Online Paradox of The National Academies Press, invited presentation to the Swedish Library Association's Ebok 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, November 2002
  
• Remarks given upon receiving the National Academies Presidents' Award, Oct 1, 2001
  
• Academic Press Gives Away Its Secret of Success, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Back Page, Sept. 14, 2001
  
• Entrepreneurs of Social Value, Presentation, International Federation of Library Associations conference, August 2001
  
• On Retro Glue and E-book Readers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Back Page, June 23, 2000
  
• Information Technology at a Crossroads: Open-Source Computer Programming, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Back Page, October 29, 1999
  
• Tearing Up the Limits Imposed by Paper, The Chronicle of Higher Education, one of eight essays in "Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Age" Back Page, June 26, 1999
  
• Entrepreneurs of Social Value: Applying Technology to the Nonprofit Knowledge Enterprise, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, October 1999
  
• Mission Possible: Giving it away while making it pay, Association of American University Presses, Austin TX, June 1999
  
• Options and Strategies for the New Technologies, Polish Publisher's Seminar, Warsaw, Poland, April, 1999
  
• Transforming the Enterprise: Nonprofits, Forprofits, and Scholarship, OCLC Director's Meeting, Dublin OH, March, 1999
  
• "Art, Artifice, Artifact: The Role of Learned Journals in the Online Environment." Keynote speech, Council of Editors of Learned Journals conference at Modern Language Association meeting, 12/97, Toronto (forthcoming)
  
• "Here There be Tygers: Profit, Nonprofit, and Loss in the Age of Disintermediation", invited paper given at Scholarly Communication in the Next Millenium: Canada's Policy Conference, March 1997; modified slightly for publication in Canadian Journal of Communication, Fall 1997.
  
• "Cost Recovery Models in Digital Publishing", invited presentation given at The Web, CD-ROM and other Digital Dreams, a Getty-wide seminar sponsored by Getty Trust Publications and The Getty Information Institute, 2/97, LA. Harvested report on the meeting, by Ben Davis.
  
• Technopolis, a column for The Bloomington Voice, published every other month in Bloomington, IN, on technology and sociocultural change, 1995-96
  
• "Designing Electronic Publications," published in Scholarly Publishing, October 1996.
  
• The Container is not the Content: Digital Publishing Costs, Concerns, and Pricing, given at the 1996 Charleston Conference, October, 1996.
  
• "Opportunity, Responsibility, and the Edutainment War," Keynote speech given at the "Association of American University Presses Second Electronic Publishers Workshop, Washington, DC, June 1994.
  
• "Fighting Infotainment: The Nonprofit Sector's Responsibility in an Online World," given at the Third Symposium on Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks, a joint Association of Research Libraries/Association of American University Presses symposium, 11/93. Published in the Proceedings, page 85-91.
  
• "A Nation of Dilettantes: The Future of Networked Digital Information Systems," given at IEEE Dissemination of Electronic Information Workshop, 9/93.
  
• "Electronic Publishing: Preparing for the Future." Keynote speech at the Association of American University Presses' Electronic Publishing Workshop, 6/93.
  
• Presented two half-day overviews of electronic publishing to editors at the Electronic Editing Workshop for the Association of American University Presses, 4/93.
  
• "Intellectual Property and University Press Publishing," given at the Joint Harvard/MIT Workshop on Intellectual Property Protection in the Networked Multimedia Environment, Harvard University, 3/93; Published in Proceedings, 2/94, page 55-61.
  
• "University Presses, Computer Technology, and Human Rights Publishing," 45 minute presentation at Layman Conference on Human Rights in the New Europe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 9/92.
  
• "Recent and Current Prepress Technologies: Computers in Publishing," four-hour presentation to representatives scholarly publishers from 13 countries, in Tallinn, Estonia, and in Prague, Czech Republic, during the PUBWATCH Educational Publishing Seminars, 6/92
  
• Panelist on two panels at the AAUP Western Presses conference: Computers and the Editorial Department, and Computers and Production, 9/91
  
• "Typesetting and Prepress Computers in Publishing," five hour presentation for PUBWATCH given to representatives of 45 Czech and Slovak publishers, Prague, 7/91
  
• "Electronic Media from a Publisher's Perspective," 45 minute presentation at the Nebraska Educational Technology Association annual conference, Omaha, 5/91
  
• "Technology and Knowledge: The University of Nebraska Press/Charles University Press Education Project," 20 minute presentation at PUBWATCH seminar on "The Crisis in Publishing in Eastern and Central Europe," New York, 3/91
  
• "Rereading the American West," essay, Nebraska Humanist (11/90)
• Chair, "CD-ROM and the Academic Arena," concurrent session at the AAUP annual meeting, Boston, 6/90
  
• "CD-ROM and Scholarly Publishing," article for CD-ROM EndUser (5/90)
  
• "Electronic Media: CDROM and Beyond," 45 minute presentation at AAUP Western Presses meeting, Seattle, 10/89
  
• Several articles in the AAUP Computer Committee Newsletter, including "Vedit Plus: MS-DOS WonderWrench" (9/89), and "A Kitten in the Window" (3/91)
  
• Created and presented over 75 half-day public seminars, "Practical Proofreading: Rules of Thumb," nationwide. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska Department of Continuing Education, 1988-93, Sponsored Programs, 1993-94.

• Founder and CEO, mwmwm, llc, a Web research tool development lab.
• Inventor of the "searchmaker," "content distiller," "plagiarism finder," and "metadata extractor," all found via orderchaos.com
• Inventor of Contentsphere, a Web site acquisition, storage, organization, and discovery, and exploration tool
• Inventor of the "content cloud" method of presenting lexical interrelationships between content units (pages, sites, etc.)

• Member, Executive Board, NISO, 2007 - 2010
• Member, Executive Board and Executive Committee, the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, 2004 to 2009
• Member, Executive Board, BIOSIS, the premier biological and life sciences indexing and abstracting service, Spring 2000 to Spring 2004
• Member, Executive Board, NINCH, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (President-elect as of 2/2003) fall 2001 to dissolution in winter 2003
• Founding Member, Board of Directors, The History Cooperative pioneering discipline-focused electronic publishing project
• Member, Public Issues Task Force, Association of American Publishers, 2000 to present
• Member, Board of Directors, Association of American University Presses (AAUP) 1995-1998
• Member, Johns Hopkins University Subcommittee on Electronic and Distance Education, 1995-97
• Member, American Historical Association Publications Advisory Committee
• Solicited evaluator, American Political Science Association proposal for online project for proceedings of APSA
• Member, AAUP Professional Development Committee, 1993-94
• Founding Member, AAUP Electronic Caucus, 1992-1994
• Member, AAUP Electronic Publishing Task Force, 1991-92
• Member, AAUP Computer Committee 1989-93
• Chair/Founder, AAUP Environmental Impact Committee, 1990-91
• Member, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Wide Information Systems Advisory Board, 1993-1995
• Member, American Memory Project development team, 1992-93.
• Member, Editorial Review Board, Nebraska Humanities, 1990-94
• Member, Editorial Review Board, Nebraska Humanist, 1989

• Freelance proofreader, University of Nebraska Press, 1987-88
• Copyeditor: Yours for the Revolution, by John Graham, (UNP, 1990)
• Copyeditor: Tutelary Tales, by Villy Sorensen, tr. Paula Hostrup-Jessen (UNP, 1988)
• Production editor: Men from the Boys, by Ray Raphael (UNP, 1988)
• Coeditor, Quarry (annual literary magazine, Indiana University) 1981
• Editor, Nebraska Humanist, (annual, Nebraska Committee for the Humanities) 1989
• Coeditor, Nebraska Humanities, (quarterly, Nebraska Humanities Council) 1990-92

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