Naomi Dushay's Home Page

Cornell Information Science 301 College Ave Ithaca, NY 14850-4623 Phone: 607-255-2528 Fax: 607-255-5196 Internet: naomi@cs.cornell.edu

I am a Senior Programmer/Analyst in the Digital Library Research Group in the Computing and Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  My current project is the National Science Digital Library.

Publications

• C. Lagoze, D. Krafft, T. Cornwell, N. Dushay, D. Eckstrom, J.Saylor "Metadata Aggregation and "Automated Digital Libraries": A Retrospective on the NSDL Experience," JCDL-2006: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006. Vannevar Bush award for best paper. http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0601125 (draft)
• N. Dushay, "Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata: A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer," D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 10, no. 10, October, 2004.
  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october04/dushay/10dushay.html
• D. Hillmann, N. Dushay and J. Phipps, "Improving Metadata Quality: Augmentation and Recombination," DC-2004: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Shanghai, China, October, 2004. 
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/naomi/DC2004/MetadataAugmentation--DC2004.pdf (draft)
• N. Dushay and D. Hillmann, "Analyzing Metadata for Effective Use and Re-use," DC-2003: 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, September 2003.
  http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/Archive-03/03dushay.pdf
• W.Y. Arms, N. Dushay, D. Fulker and C. Lagoze, "A Case Study in Metadata Harvesting: the NSDL," Library HiTech Vol. 21, no. 2, 2003.
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/Arms-et-al-LibraryHiTech.pdf (draft)
• N. Dushay, "Localizing Experience of Digital Content via Structural Metadata," JCDL-2002: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, Oregon, 2002.
  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=544220.544274
• N. Dushay, "Using Structural Metadata to Localize Experience of Digital Content," Technical Report, December, 2001.
  http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0112017
• N. Dushay and C.Lagoze, "Modeling Decisions for Digital Content," Cornell University Computer Science, Technical Report TR2000-1807, July, 2000.
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR2000-1807
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library," ECDL99: Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Paris, France, September, 1999. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1696)
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR99-1743 (draft)
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries," Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM'99), Berkeley, CA, August, 1999.
  http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/9902020 (draft)
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "A Characterization Study of NCSTRL Distributed Searching," Cornell University Computer Science, Technical Report TR99-1725, January, 1999.
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR99-1725

Other Work Related Materials

• My current project is the National Science Digital Library.  I work on "Core Integration", analogous to roads and utilities for the project.
  • One research interest is information visualization.  See http://infoviz.comm.nsdl.org. 
  • I also created some experimental "library-at-a-glance" prototypes, which are available at http://labview.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Visualization but require some software installation. 
  • Our NSF program officer really liked the StarTree approach, so I created a StarTree relating NSF awards for the NSDL to GEM subjects of NSDL collections (a small controlled vocabulary of subjects).  This one is an applet, so you can see it by visiting http://infoviz.comm.nsdl.org/nsf-awards/nsf-nsdl.html.
• Our group home page at http://www.cis.cornell.edu/infoscience/research/dl/home.html
• Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA), a project I used to work on.
• I completed the CORBA upgrade to the STARTS Reference Implementation in August, 1998.
• I added the registry (profile) service to Dienst and worked on the user interface for release 4.1, which went up in production in February, 1998.  You can access Dienst at http://www.ncstrl.org.

Personal Interests

Music

I listen to music a great deal, I play the French horn (for 27 years now), and I've recently taken up singing outside of the shower.  I was a classical purist for 20 years or so, but these days I'm mostly into jazz, specifically swing and sometimes be-bop.  My CD collection sports lots of jazz vocals -- four of my favorite singers are Diana Krall, Ella, Anita O'Day and Mel Torme, though there're many others whose work I enjoy. Outside of jazz and classical, I have a fondness for Paul Simon, and my collection also has a smattering of Klezmer, Irish and other folky flavors. I love music, and have a complex relationship with it that I don't fully understand.

Travel

I've had the good fortune lately of being able to travel to some really great places.  Patagonia.  The Galapagos.  The Dolomites.  Alaska. 

Reading

I'm an avid reader, and I've put together an annotated list of my favorite books.

Family

silly picture of life imitating art (huge, sorry)

silly picture of me during June 2002 Trail Maintenance (huge, sorry)

even sillier picture of me on trail Maintenance (huge, sorry)

silly picture of me on Red Groom's "The Bus" museum exhibit 3-14-02

equally silly picture of me and Diane 3-5-02

Mildred Friedman (Lester's aunt) in a fireman's outfit.  She was 94 3/4 when this photo was taken!

Photo of my family (my parents, my brothers and their wives, and two nephlings).

Lester Berman was a dear family friend.  He lived from 1907 until October 30, 2000.  Here are some great old photos of him:

• Suave Lester leaning against a fence, probably in the yard of his home in Syracuse.
• Lester by his house (presumably).
• Lester and his Aunt Mildred.
• Lester and his parents.
• Lester with his Aunt Mildred and brother Alvin at the beach.
• Lester with unknown girl and boy.  (The boy might be Alvin.)
• Lester, Rosaline (his other Aunt) and Alvin -- perhaps at an occasion in DC.
• Lester and an unknown Date.  (Think she's Jewish?)

last updated 06/21/2006