School of Information professor Ray Larson has been awarded the best paper award at the 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries in Berlin.
The award-winning paper, co-authored with I School alumnus Krishna Janakiraman (MIMS '11), is titled “Connecting Archival Collections: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project.”
The paper describes the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project, which is building a searchable and browsable name authority database with data drawn from the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the Northwest Digital Archives, Virginia Heritage, the OCLC, and the Getty Vocabulary Program.
