Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar Program

As part of the University of Maryland University College's commitment to national leadership in distance education, the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (CIP) has established a Virtual Scholar-In-Residence Program. As part of our academic community, the Intellectual Property Scholar has the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, conduct research, and teach. Our faculty, as well as the general community, benefit from new perspectives on intellectual property that the Scholar can provide through teaching, research, and outreach. 
 
 The scholars are selected because of their outstanding contribution to the world of copyright and intellectual property as well as their background in information technology, copyright law, policy and administration, scholarly electronic communication, and many other topics.

About the IP Scholar Program

 

 

 

Clifford A. Lynch

Intellectual Property Scholar, 2004-2006

• Brief Background
• Selected Presentations
• Recent Publications

 

 

 

Brief Background

Dr. Clifford Lynch is presently Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. Prior to joining CNI, Dr. Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Internationally known for his development of Melvyl, an information system, which serves all of the campuses of the University of California, Lynch has played a key role in the development of information standards. Especially noteworthy is his work on Z39.50, which addresses the need for interoperability among information retrieval systems. Clifford Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.

Dr. Lynch has also been involved in a wide variety of research and development efforts in the application of advanced technologies to information management and delivery, including work with computer networking, information servers, database management systems, and imaging technologies. He participates in several standards activities (including the NISO Standards Development Committee) and is the leader of the Coalition for Networked Information's Architectures and Standards Working Group. He has published extensively and serves on a number of editorial boards. He has served as a director and is the past president of the American Association for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.

Lynch currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Selected Presentations

Clifford A. Lynch, "Cliff's Notes," ACCESS 2003: Extending Our Abilities, Vancouver, BC, October 1-4, 2003.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Keynote," Evolving the Links, Madison, WI, September 24, 2003.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Reflections Towards the Development of a 'Post-DL' Research Agenda," Wave of the Future: NSF Post Digital Libraries Future Workshop, Chatham, Massachusetts, June 15-17, 2003.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Check Out the New Library," Ubiquity 4:23 (July 29-August 4, 2003)

Clifford A. Lynch, "Digital Rights Management: More than Meets the Eye," EDUCAUSE LIVE! April 21, 2003.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Essential Elements of an Archiving Strategy," The Archiving Forum: Preserving Digital Content (and the Opportunities It Holds) for the Long Haul, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 2003.

Academic Publishing in the Digital Realm: An Interview with Clifford Lynch," Syllabus Magazine, December 2002

Clifford A. Lynch, Keynote Address, Personalisation and Digital Libraries Seminar, The Open University, October 18, 2002.

Clifford A. Lynch, Keynote, ECURE 2002: Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records, Phoenix, AZ, October 9-11, 2002.

Clifford A. Lynch, "What's Become of the Digital Library?" EDUCAUSE 2002, Atlanta, GA, October 1-4, 2002.

Clifford A. Lynch, Globally Sharing Information Assets," Managing Digital Video Content Workshop, Atlanta, GA, August 15-16, 2001.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Personalization and Recommender Systems in the Larger Context: New Directions and Research Questions," Second DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, Dublin, Ireland, June 18-20, 2001.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Metadata Harvesting and the Indexing of the Web," NASA Goddard Information and Science Technology Colloquium, February 14, 2001.

Florence Olsen, "Logging in with Clifford A. Lynch: Public-Key Security Systems Hold Promise for Academe," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 27, 2000.

Clifford A. Lynch, "The New Context for Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium," Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenge of Networked Resources and the Web, Washington, DC, November 15-17, 2000.

Clifford A. Lynch, "The Coming Crisis in Preserving Our Digital Cultural Heritage," To Preserve and Protect: The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources, Library of Congress Bicentennial Symposium, Washington, DC, October 30-31, 2000.

Clifford A. Lynch, "Keynote Address," ECURE 2000: Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records, Tempe, AZ, October 5-6, 2000.

Recent Publications

Articles and Chapters

"The New Dimensions of Learning Communities," Threshold (Winter 2004).

"Life After Graduation Day: Beyond the Academy's Digital Walls," EDUCUASE Review 38: 5 (September/October 2003), 12-13. (PDF file, Acrobat 5.0)

"The Visible Classroom," EDUCAUSE Review 38: 4 (July/August 2003), 68.

Clifford A. Lynch and Neil McLean, "Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments--Bridging the Gaps," a white paper produced jointly by IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information (Public Draft 1, December 2003).

"Preserving Digital Information to Support Scholarship," in Maureen Devlin, Richard Larsen, and Joel Meyerson, eds., The Internet & the University: Forum 2002 (EDUCAUSE 2003).

"Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age," ARL Bimonthly Report 226 (February 2003), 1-7.

"The Afterlives of Courses on the Network: Information Management Issues for Learning Management Systems," EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Research Bulletin 2002:23 (November 2002).

"Digital Collections, Digital Libraries, and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information," First Monday 7: 5 (May 2002).

"A New Research Agenda for Measurementand Evaluation in the Networked Information World," Charles McClure andJohn Carol Bertot, eds., Evaluating Networked Information Services:Techniques,Policy, and Issues (Information Today, September 2001).

"Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative," ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions 217 (August 2001).

"Personalization and Recommender Systems in the Larger Context: New Directions and Research Questions," Second DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, Dublin, Ireland, June 18-20, 2001.

"Colliding with the Real World: Heresies and Unexplored Questions about Audience, Economics, and Control of DigitalLibraries," Ann Bishop, Barbara Butterfield, and Nancy Van House, eds.,Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2001).

"The Battle to Define the Futureof the Book in the Digital World," First Monday 6: 6 (June 2001).

"The New Context for Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium," Bicentennial Conference for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenge of Networked resources and the Web, Washington, DC, November 15-17, 2000.

"Future Developments in Metadata and Their Role in Access to Networked Information," Proceedings of theALCTS Preconference on Metadata, July 6-7, 2000.

"When Documents Deceive: Trust and Provenance as New Factors for Information Retrieval in a Tangled Web," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52:1 (January 2001),pp.12-17.

"Authenticity and Integrity in theDigital Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the Central Role of Trust," Authenticityin a Digital Environment (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000), pp 32-50.

"Experiential Documents and the Technologies of Remembrance," Alison Scammell, ed., I in the Sky: Visions of theInformation Future (London: Aslib, 2000; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), pp.140-146.

"Cumulative Evolution as Revolution: Four Trends that Will Change the Rules for Digital Imaging Projects," AnneR. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, eds., Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging For Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research LibrariesGroup, 2000), pp. 162-163.

"Why Broadband Matters: Applicationsand Architectural Issues," Educause Quarterly 23:2
(2000), pp. 59-62.

Selected Consulting Reports

The Internet2/CNI Performance Archive & Retrieval Working Group, Current Practices in Capturing Live Performance Events (October 2003).

NRC Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration, Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for Initial Development (2003).

Jamie Callan, et. al., "Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries: A Joint NSF-EU DELOS Working Group Report," (May 2003).

Technology and the ERIC System: New Opportunitiesand New Impacts, a report submitted to the United States Departmentof Education, April 21, 2000.

Accessibility and Integrity of Networked InformationCollections (Washington,DC: United States Office of Technology Assessment,August 1993).

Monographs

Clifford A. Lynch and Edwin B. Brownrigg, PacketRadio Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Technologies, and Applications(Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987).

John Gale, Clifford A. Lynch, and Edwin B. Brownrigg, OpticalMedia Applications: Textual Retrieval and Networking Issues (Alexandria,VA: Information Workstation Group, 1987).