Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), will make a presentation titled "Research Challenges from Digital Libraries and Networked Information: a Survey of Open Issues" on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by Cornell University Library and the Department of Computer Science.
The development of digital libraries and networked information services raises a wide range of research challenges at the intersection of computer science, information science and numerous other disciplines, including law and economics. Lynch's presentation will survey a number of these issues in areas that include: rights management, licensing, authentication, interoperability, networked resource discovery, archiving, and the management and use of metadata.
Lynch has been the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as director of library automation, where he managed the MELVYL information system and the intercampus internet for the university. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.
He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
For more information, contact Edward Weissman, 255-5754, esw3@cornell.edu .
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