Michael L. Nelson received his B.S. (1991) in computer science
from Virginia Tech and his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2000) in computer science
from Old Dominion University. He worked at NASA Langley Research Center from
1991-2002. Through a NASA fellowship, he spent the 2000-2001 academic year at
the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. In July 2002, he joined the Computer Science Department of Old
Dominion University. At NASA he was instrumental in establishing their public
web services: 1992 he created NASA first anonymous FTP server for distribution
of technical reports, in 1993 he created the first NASA center homepage, and
starting in 1994 he developed several public access digital libraries (DLs) for
NASA publications. The challenges presented by these DLs informed his research
interests and graduate study. In 1999, he co-developed the Universal Preprint
Service (UPS) that served as the discussion piece for the Santa Fe meeting that
created the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH). Dr. Nelson was co-editor of the OAI-PMH and the many ancillary
documents that accompanied it. His main research areas are object / repository
interaction and digital preservation. He is now a technical committee member of
the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) project, and
is supervising three Ph.D. students in the area of alternative models for
digital preservation. He is (co-)author of over 100 publications and since 2001
has been PI or co-PI on 9 grants totaling over $2.3M. More information about
Dr. Nelson can be found at: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/
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