Larry Carver , Biographical Data: (2004)

Position: Director Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives – Responsible for all digital technologies supporting library services and processing; includes Director of MIL, Systems and the Alexandria Digital Library.

Position: Director Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL 1979) at the University of California . MIL operates the operational portion of the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL 1994). MIL is the largest geospatial data archive within academia. MIL operates both a digital and analog data library and supports a state-of-the-art remote-sensing and geographical information system laboratory for UC students and researchers. It provides the primary testbed for the ADEPT NSF funded digital Library Initiative 2.

Major Accomplishments: Design and building of MIL. Oversaw the building of the MIL data collections to more than five million data objects. Developed industrial partnerships with hardware, software and other data archive resources. Put into operation the geospatial digital library Alexandria (ADL). Developed the concept for spatial data management as an extension of library service with a grant from the Keck Foundation and RLG in 1984.

Restructured IT within the Davidson Libraries to support Enterprise computing and network environments. 

Selected Publications:

D. Andresen, L. Carver, R. Dolin, C. Fischer, J. Frew, M. Goodchild, O. Ibarra, R. Kothuri, M.

Larsgaard, B. Manjunath, D. Nebert, J. Simpson, T. Smith, T. Yang, and Q. Zheng, "The

WWW prototype of the Alexandria Digital Library", in Proceedings of ISDL'95: International

Symposium on Digital Libraries, Japan , 22- 25 August 1995

J. Frew, L. Carver, C. Fischer, M. Goodchild, M. Larsgaard, T. Smith, and Q. Zheng, "The

Alexandria Rapid Prototype: building a digital library for spatial information", in 1995 ESRI

User Conference Proceedings, May 22-25, 1995 , Environmental Systems Research Institute,

Inc., Redlands , CA (1995).

Carver, L, et al. 1995 The Alexandria Rapid Prototype: building a digital library for spatial information. Santa Barbara , Calif. : Alexandria Digital Library. In Proceedings of the ESRI User Conference, Palm Springs , CA , 1995. (CD)

Smith, T.R., Andresen, D., Carver, L., Dolin R., Fischer, C., Frew, J., Goodchild, M., Ibarra, O.,

Kemp, R.B., Kothuri, R., Larsgaard, M., Manjunath, B.S., Nebert, D., Simpson, J., Wells, A.,

Yang, T., Zheng, Q. "The Alexandria Digital Library: Overview and WWW Prototype," IEEE

Computer, 54-60, May, 1996.

Carver, Larry; “Chapter 14: Libraries, Press, and Public” of; EOSDIS Potential User Model Development Effort. Proceedings, NASA 1996

Carver, Larry; and Larsgaard, Mary. Appendix: Directory of sources of remote-sensing imagery. Manual of Photographic Interpretation, 1996. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Linda Hill, Larry Carver, Ron Dolin, James Frew, Mary Larsgaard, Mary-Anna Rae, Terry Smith, "Alexandria Digital Library: User Evaluation Studies and System Design," IEEE Computer, June, 1998.

Hill, L. L., Carver, L., Dolin, R., Frew, J., Larsgaard, M., Rae, M.-A.,& Smith, T. R. (2000). Alexandria Digital Library: User evaluation studies and system design. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (Special issue on Digital Libraries), 51(3),246-259.

"Vignettes of the Santa Barbara Area", Prepared for the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Assoc of Pacific Coast Geographers, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 2001 Santa Barbara County - Geospactial Data Resources Available Through the Map and Imagery Library by Larry Carver and Mary Larsgaard (MIL, UCSB)

Carver, L & M. Larsgaard. Alexandria Digital Library. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York ; Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol 32 Number 1, November 2000; The Christmas Gife: An Enlarged Space for the Map and Imagery Library. PP 31-45 by Larry Carver and Mary Larsgaard.

Carver, L.; Pritchard, S.; Valentine, D. 2004. “Alexandria Digital Library – Research to Production and Beyond.” Santa Barbara CA : Map and Imagery Lab, Davidson Library, University of California , Santa Barbara .   (in press )  prepared for the China Digital Library Conference sponsored by the China National Library, Beijing , China – September 6 th to 8 th , 2004 .

Pritchard, S; Carver, L;Anand, S. (July 2004). "Collaboration for Knowledge Management and Campus Informatiecs." Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation" under award number 40200638

Committees:

SBCC GIS Advisory Committee

ADL Exec. Committee

UCSB Facility Club

STC-Interlib proposal group

Lib. Long-Range planning committee

Lib. Space Committee 11-2000

ADEPT - ADL User Evaluation Committee

ADEPT - ADL Implementation Committee

ADL Operational Group (Chair)

DL98 Sec. for professional meeting

ADL98 IEEE program in SB. Treasurer part of organizing committee.

ASPRS Data Preservation & Archiving Committee

UCSB ITPG planning committee 4.2001 -

UCSB Senate Committee on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunications Policy 2001-2002

LTAG System wide library systems group 2001- Present

External Review Committee for Instructional Development 2003-2003

UC Digital Visual Resources Task Force - System wide 2002 - 2003

Library Strategic Planning Committee 2004 -

UC eScholarship Campus Liaisons Group - System wide 2002 - 2004

Restructuring UCSB Campus IT Committee for - 2004

Selected Invited Talks:

New Mexico / NSF International DL meeting 7/99

Asian DL Workshop / Conference in Taiwan 7/99

ECAI meeting / UCSB / 10-2000

ARL meeting 3/2001 on ADL

ALA meeting 6/2001 on geospatial digital data to CCDA

Evolution of ADL Design Model - Digital Cultures Meeting UCSB 3/2002

AISTI in Santa Fe - The Evolution of ADL - 10/2003

A distributed ADL – Workshop of Digital Libraries, Auckland , NZ 4/2003
Alexandria Digital Library - Research to Production and Beyond, Digital Library Meeting, National Library of China, Beijing, China 9/2004

Selected Grants:

AutoCad software grant $48K 1998

Identifying Maya Archeological Sites - with Clark & Ford 1998

NSF Digital Library Initiative 2 Grant 6 Million 1999-2004

SUN - ADL 4/2001

ADL Phase – ADEPT 1998-2004

Mellon Foundation 2003-2004