Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:07:29 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University, a key player in the open access movement,
is honoured. Please join me in congratulating him. On this happy occasion
let us all resolve to adopt open access and to set up and quickly populate
interoperable institutional archives in all major Indian higher educational
and research institutions. Best wishes.
Arun
2004 LITA Frederick G. Kilgour Award winner announced
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University is the winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour
Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2004. The award
is sponsored by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the Library
and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American
Library Association.
"The Kilgour Award Committee takes great pleasure in acknowledging the
important work and contributions of Carl Lagoze, whose research has lead to
significant achievements in the areas of distributed digital collections,
the harvesting of metadata, and establishment of open standards," said Mark
Farrar, chair of the award committee.
Mr. Lagoze's achievements include the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) which he co-created with Herbert Van de
Sompel. This initiative promotes interoperability standards for metadata
harvesting, with the specific goal of enhancing the ability to access all
forms of digital material. The project has lead to renewed interest in
shared metadata and the increased ability of scholars to locate relevant
digital assets regardless of geographical location.
Carl Lagoze and Sandy Payette co-invented the Flexible and Extensible
Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). This project is funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with prior support from the National
Science Foundation, and is being co-developed by Cornell University and the
University of Virginia. Fedora is open source software for creating digital
object repositories which allow the accessing of content through a
distributed and dynamic infrastructure. Fedora plays an important role in
the creation of digital and institutional repositories and is being used or
adapted in various academic and corporate settings.
The Distributed Interactive Extensible Network Server for Technical Reports
(Dienst) was co-invented by Carl Lagoze and James Davis. Dienst is both a
protocol and software that were freely distributed for non-commercial use.
While Dienst was an early effort in using metadata, the web and distributed
content servers, it proved to be instrumental in further developments in
these areas.
Carl Lagoze received his Master of Software Engineering from the Wang
Institute of Graduate Studies in 1987. Mr. Lagoze founded the Cornell
Digital Library Research Group (CDLRG), and he is currently a Senior
Research Associate in the Information Science program at Cornell University
.
The award was established to honor the achievements of Frederick G. Kilgour,
the founder of OCLC and a seminal figure in library automation. The award is
given to a person who has amassed a significant body of research in the
field of library and information technology. Particular recognition is given
to research which results in a positive and substantive impact on the
publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. The award
consists of $2,000, an expense paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference, and a
citation of merit. Mr. Lagoze will be accepting the award at the LITA
President's Program on Monday, June 28, 2004 at the ALA Annual Conference in
Orlando.
