Steve Hitchcock is project manager for the Open Citation Project, which develops citation linking and analysis services for open-access archives. Previously he worked on the Open Journal Project. Steve is also Development Editor for the Web-only Journal of Digital Information. He was awarded a PhD this year for a thesis examining a new Web publishing model, called Perspectives in Electronic Publishing, based on link technology.
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Donna Bergmark
Donna Bergmark is a member of the Digital Library Research Group which is part of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. Her current research interests are reference linking, Web research, and the Open Archives Initiative. She is the author of "Collection Synthesis", which won the Vannevar Bush Award at the ACM Digital Libraries Conference in June 2002. Prior to becoming a researcher in the Computer Science Department, she was a programmer and manager of the Parallel Tools group in the Cornell Theory Center.
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Tim Brody
Tim Brody developed the Citebase search service, as part of the output of the Open Citation Project. He is also actively involved with EPrints software, and with the Open Archives Initiative. Tim is a doctoral student at the University of Southampton, having graduated in 2001. His interests include digital library systems, analysis of the scholarly literature, and distributed information infrastructures.
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Christopher Gutteridge
Christopher Gutteridge is the primary author of GNU EPrints 2 software, which facilitates online archives of research papers and other scholarly material. He can be found working as a System Programmer, Webmaster, UNIX Admin, Teaching Support, Research Assistant as well as EPrints developer and support (often all at once) in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
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Les Carr
Les Carr directs technical development for the Open Citation Project. He is a lecturer in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group at Southampton, where he teaches courses on advanced programming. Les is also an investigator on the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project, which was set up to investigate techniques and tools to support the knowledge lifecycle.
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Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She was the founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and is currently the Head of Department. Her research interests include open hypermedia systems and link services, digital libraries, multimedia databases, content-based retrieval, agent systems and user interfaces.
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Carl Lagoze
Carl Lagoze is Director of Technology in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) project and Senior Research Associate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. He is also shares the executive role in the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and is co-architect of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
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Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad is a principal investigator, and visionary, behind the Open Citation Project. He is Professor of Cognitive Science at Southampton University. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Stevan is founder and editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Eprint Archive.
