William Y. Arms
Professor
wya@cs.cornell.edu
D.Phil University of Sussex,
U.K.,1973
My research interests concentrate on digital libraries and electronic
publishing. These fields integrate methods from many disciplines, so
that the work ranges from technical topics, such as distributed
computing and information representation, to the economic and social
aspects change.
This year has seen great progress in reference linking, the
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generalization of citations and hyperlinks to references among
digital works. A general framework has been developed and is being
applied to several large sources of information. We plan to use these
results to analyze changes in use patterns of scientific literature. This
follows a long-standing interest in quantitative research into information systems. With support from
DARPA, we have created a
test suite for digital libraries research, to develop systematic metrics and replicable research results.
Several people in the department
are involved in the changes in
computer science publication as
online material replace printed
journals as the primary means of
creating, storing, and distributing
research information. I chair the
ACM publications board, Joe
Halpern has led the creation of the
CoRReprint repository for
computer science, and Carl Lagoze
heads the Networked Computer
Science Research Library (NCSTRL).
Professional
Activities
-
Chair:
Publications Board,
Association for
Computing
Machinery.
- Chair: National
Science
Foundation
workshop on a National Digital
Library for
Undergraduate
Science,
Mathematics,
Engineering and
Technology
Education.
- Program
committee: ACM
Digital Libraries
'99 conference
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Series editor:
MIT Press series
on Digital
Libraries and
Electronic
Publishing.
- Editor-in-chief:
D-Lib Magazine
Publications
"The D-Lib Test Suite:
testbeds for digital
libraries research."
D-Lib Magazine,
February 1999 5(2).
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