Terry L. Harrison received his BS in Mass Communications from James Madison University. After his undergraduate studies, Terry worked in the television industry for a number of years. He also ran his own company, "Optical Imagineering", performing media rich lightshows (35MM slide, 16MM film, liquid-oils, and multi-camera live productions) for a variety of artists, including Everything, James Brown and Bruce Hornsby. Drawn to the communication possibilities that were blossoming with the advent of the Internet, Terry became involved with emerging digital technologies, including professional digital video production. During the dot-com days, he taught XML and related technologies at XMLSolutions, based in Washington D.C.
Terry's interest in communications grew to include an interest in digital preservation. This interest was further developed through his research work in digital libraries at ODU under Dr. Nelson. His graduate research included developing Apache modules and protocol gateways, both within the context of digital preservation. His thesis work involved mining web search engine caches to generate lexical signatures for the purpose of finding lost web pages. Terry co-authored seven research papers and was the recipient of several scholarships, including: the 2005 Meredith Construction Company Scholarship; 2005 NSF CSEM Scholarship; 2003 A. R. Zipf Fellowship for Information Management; and a 2002 NSF GAANN Fellowship. After completing his MS in Computer Science, Terry began working full-time at CACI in Chesapeake, VA, where he manages several digital preservation efforts underway for their client, the Library of Congress. Terry's diverse background, including his Masters in Computer Science from ODU, has been useful in helping him to understand and manage the challenges being faced by today's large scale digital preservation efforts.
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