Ronald Larsen
Dean & Professor
514 IS Building
412-624-5139
rlarsen@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park
Research Interests:
Digital libraries. interoperability. scalability. cross-lingual information retrieval. location-aware computing. mobile computing. computer and network performance analysis. performance metrics for distributed digital libraries.
Recent Publications:
"On the Threshold of Cyberscholarship," Journal of Electronic Publishing, January 2008 (Vol. 11, Issue 1). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.102
"The Future of Scholarly Communication – Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship," Report of the NSF/JISC workshop on scholarly information repositories, with William Y. Arms (Cornell), September 2007. www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/NSF-JISC-report.pdf
"Whence Leadership?" D-Lib Magazine, July / August 2005 (Vol. 11, No. 7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/larsen/07larsen.html
"Trust in P2P-based Digital Library Systems: An Analysis of the Incentives," International Telecommunications Society Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Perth (Australia) September 2005, (with Weiss, Martin BH).
Recent Grants:
Principal Investigator, "A Research Program for Advancing New Models of Scholarly Communication across Disciplines," Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, (2008 – 2013, $782K).
Principal Investigator, NSF grant to organize a 2007 workshop to assess research directions for advanced digital repositories ($40K), with William Y. Arms, Cornell University.
Principal Investigator, IMLS grant to organize the US participation in a 2006 workshop at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt) to explore the opportunities for a Digital Library of the Middle East ($40K).