SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Michael L. Nelson is a professor of computer science at Old Dominion University (ODU) and the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC). Prior to joining ODU, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center from 1991-2002. He is a co-editor of the OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, Memento, and ResourceSync specifications. He co-leads the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, with 6 faculty members and 20+ graduate students. More information about Dr. Nelson can be found at http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2000
Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA

M.S. in Computer Science, 1997
Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA

B.S. in Computer Science, 1991
Virginia Tech (VT), Blacksburg, VA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VMASC, Research Professor
Suffolk, VA
2018 - Present

Old Dominion University, Professor
Norfolk, VA
2015 - Present

Old Dominion University, Associate Professor
Norfolk, VA
2008 - 2015

Old Dominion University, Assistant Professor
Norfolk, VA
2002 - 2008

NASA Langley Research Center, Computer Engineer
Hampton, VA
1991 - 2002

Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), Consultant
Hampton, VA
2002

Air Force Research Laboratory, Summer Visiting Researcher
Albuquerque, NM
1999 & 2000

Unified Research Laboratories, Principal
Hampton, VA
1995 - 1996

Computer Sciences Corporation, Systems Programmer
Hampton, VA
1991

WEB-ARCHIVING FORENSICS

STORY TELLING INTERFACES FOR COLLECTION SUMMARIZATION

NEWS OVERLAP

WEB ARCHIVES AT THE NEXUS OF GOOD FAKES AND FLAWED ORIGINALS

ARCHIVING TWITTER

SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS

X Liu, J Bollen, ML Nelson, H Van de Sompel (2005). Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community. Information processing & management 41 (6), 1462-1480.

H Van de Sompel, C Lagoze, M Nelson, S Warner (2002). The open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting. http://www.openarchives.org/OAI_protocol/openarchivesprotocol.html. 9

H Van de Sompel, ML Nelson, C Lagoze, S Warner (2004). Resource harvesting within the OAI-PMH framework. D-lib magazine 10 (12).

JA Kaplan, ML Nelson (1993). A comparison of queueing, cluster and distributed computing systems. NASA TM 109025, 1993

H Van de Sompel, ML Nelson, R Sanderson, LL Balakireva, S Ainsworth, ... (2009). Memento: Time travel for the web. arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1112.

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