Krafft, Dean B. Cornell Academic Staff

Positions

Senior Research Associate, CU Lib IT
Senior Research Associate, Information Science

Dr. Krafft received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1981. Since the 1990s, he has been involved in digital library research, most recently heading the National Science Digital Library project at Cornell. In July 2008 he joined the Cornell University Library as Chief Technology Strategist, while retaining a Senior Research Associate appointment in Information Science. In August 2010, he became the Director of IT for the Cornell University Library in addition to continuing as Chief Technology Strategist.

Affiliation

other Cornell affiliations

Computing and Information Science (CIS)

Research

principal investigator on

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: CORE INTEGRATION-LEADING NSDL TOWARD LONG-TERM SUCCESS awarded by DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES NSF 2003 - 2007
FEDORA COMMONS DURABLE PLATFORM FOR COLLECTIONS, COLLABORATION AND PUBLICATIONS awarded by GORDON & BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION 2007 - 2010
FEDORA SERVICE FRAMEWORK: FILLING OUT THE BLUEPRINT FOR NEXT-GENERATION SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS awarded by MELLON, ANDREW W. FDN 2007 - 2010
INTEGRATING INSTRUCTIONAL ARCHITECT WITH THE NSDL DATA REPOSITORY awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2008 - 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY SUBCONTRACT awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2005 - 2007
VIVO: ENABLING NATIONLAL NETWORKING OF SCIENTISTS: YEAR 3 awarded by University of Florida 2010 - 2012

co-principal investigator on

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: CORE INTEGRATION OF THE NATIONAL SMETE DIGIAL LIBRARY awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2001 - 2003
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY (NSDL) CENTRAL SYSTEM awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2000 - 2002

Publications

individual publications

academic article
- What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL. D-Lib Magazine. 11. 2005
- A Spectrum of Interoperability: The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL. D-Lib Magazine. 8. 2002
- A Case Study of Flexible Object Manipulation. International Journal of Robotics Research. 10:41-50. 1991
- Toward Better Computer Science. IEE Spectrum. 24:58-60. 1987
chapter
- The Challenge of Robotics for Computer Science. Advances in Robotics, Vol. 1: Algorithmic and Geometric Aspects of Robotics. 1986
conference paper
- VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists 2010
- The NCore Platform: An Open-Source Suite of Tools and Services for Implementing Digital Libraries. Proceedings from the Third International Conference on Open Repositories. 2008
- NCore: Architecture and Implementation of a Flexible, Collaborative Digital Library. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2008
- NSDL MatDL: Adding Context to Bridge Materials e-Research and e-Education. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings from the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries. 2007
- Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": A retrospective on the NSDL experience. Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2006
- Representing Contextualized Information in the NSDL 2006
- An Information Network Overlay Architecture for the NSDL. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Denver, CO. 2005
- Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education (NSDL). Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2002
- Dienst: Building a Production Technical Report Server. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE-CS Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries. 1995
- Contribution and collaboration strategies for the National Science Digital Library: Investigating technological solutions to facilitate social evolution of a collaborative infrastructure. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Houston, TX.
report
- Dienst: Implementation Reference Manual. Cornell University Computer Science Department Technical Reports. 1995

featured in archived article

talks and presentations

1. Reimagining IT at Cornell University, Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2010 Task Force Meeting, Arlington, VA, (December 2010).
2. VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists, Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2010 Task Force Meeting, Baltimore, MD (with Valrie Davis), (April 2010).
3. Taking the Library Outside the Library: A Light-weight Innovation Model for Heavy-weight Economic Times, Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2010 Task Force Meeting, Baltimore, MD (with Dianne Dietrich and Baseema B. Krkoska), (April 2010).
4. Wrenching Change: Why a Research Library Needs a Chief Technology Strategist, Institute for Computer Policy and Law, Ithaca, NY, (June 2009)
5. NSDL: Creating an Extensible, Collaborative, Community-based Digital Library for STEM Education, NSF EHR Cyberinfrastructure for Education Workshop Series, Arlington, VA, (February 2008)
6. Organizing the Digital Library, Joint DELOS/NSDL Summer School on Digital Libraries, Florence, Italy, (May 2007).
7. Semantic Digital Libraries, WWW 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada (with Sandy Payette, et al.), (May 2007).
8. NSDL 2.0: Creating a Collaborative Digital Library, Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, (March 2007).
9. NSDL 2.0: Building a Collaborative Digital Library, 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories, San Antonio, Texas, (January 2007).
10. Building Collaborative Tools on the NSDL Data Repository, NSDL 2007 Annual Meeting, AAAS, Washington, DC, (October 2006).
11. Building a National Science Digital Library on Fedora, Fedora Users Conference 2006, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (June 2006).
12. The Technical Infrastructure of the NSDL, EUNIS-CZ Seminar on Digital Libraries, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic (May 2006)
13. Building a National Science Digital Library, Educause Live! Webcast (May 2006)
14. Technical Vision for the NSDL, House STEM Caucus Luncheon, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC (September 2005)

Background

educational background

1976   B.A., Carleton College     Mathematics

1979   M.S., Cornell University   Computer Science

1981   Ph.D., Cornell University Computer Science

awards and distinctions listing

2006 Delos Best Paper Award, European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (co-author)

2006 Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (co-author)