Beth A. Plale is a professor of Computer Science as well as the Director of the Data to Insight Center of the Pervasive Technologies Institute and the Director of the Center for Data and Search Informatics at Indiana University. Plale is the Indiana Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). She has broad research and governance interest in long term preservation and access to scientific data, and enabling computational access to large-scale data for broader groups of researchers.