MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Wednesday, 20-Nov-96 19:31:18 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 5472 Last-Modified: Friday, 26-Apr-96 17:42:49 GMT Carl Lagoze's Personal Home Page

Carl Lagoze

Project Leader: Digital Library Research Group

Department of Computer Science
4158 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850-7501
Phone: +1-607-255-6046
Fax: +1-607-255-4428
Internet: lagoze@cs.cornell.edu

I lead the Digital Library Research Group in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. Our group manages the operation and technical development of the Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL). This is an international consortium that maintains a distributed digital library of computer science research and collaborates on a number of digital library research issues.

I am co-developer, with Jim Davis, of the Dienst software, a protocol and reference implementation that provides distributed digital library servers accessible over the World Wide Web. Dienst is the current enabling technology for NCSTRL. I have authored or co-authored a number of papers on Dienst:

My primary research involves defining the services and protocols for an interoperable digital library infrastructure. In this area, I have collaborated with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to extend and implement a digital object framework developed as part of the DARPA-funded Computer Science Technical Report Project. I have authored or co-authored a number of papers in this area:

As part of this work, I am also a member of the Dlib working group on repository interfaces and co-author of the yet-to-be-released final report of the Metadata Workshop II in Warwick, U.K. Finally, and also as part of this work, I am very interested in extending the World Wide Web using distributed object technology. You can read my position paper for the Joint W3C/OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects and Mobile Code workshop.


There is more to me than this research. Who knows, you may meet me at a conference, workshop, or meeting and find that out. As a poor substitute for personal contact, let me say a little more about me.

That character on my lap in the picture at the top of this page is Lucy, my daughter. She rules the majority of my life, outside of my work time. Toddlers are a constant challenge and joy. Lucy gives meaning to my life that will never be provided by my work.

I am also an avid outdoor person. Put me in site of fast moving water or a quiet lakeand I will itch to get out on it in a canoe. Give me a beautiful day and I will think only about bike riding along a quiet road or a backwoods trail. Tell me I have a spare hour in my day and I will put on my running shoes and breath deeply the fresh air. I may spend much of my time in the digital world, but it will never be a substitute for the joys of the physical nor should it ever interfere with our desire to fight for its preservation.

Hope to meet you sometime,

Carl