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        Thomas B. Hickey, Ph.D.
        Chief Scientist
        <P>My interests include electronic publishing, information retrieval and display, and metadata creation and editing systems. I currently lead a group that is investigating algorithms for the <A href="../projects/frbr/default.htm"><ACRONYM title="Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records">FRBR</ACRONYM></A> grouping of bibliographic metadata, distributed authority control, text retrieval on Beowulf clusters, Z39.50 and its Web equivalents <A href="../projects/webservices/default.htm"><ACRONYM title="Search &amp; Retrieve Web Service/URL Service">SRW/U</ACRONYM></A>, and applications of the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting, such as the <A href="http://www.ndltd.org"><ACRONYM title="Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations">NDLTD</ACRONYM></A> catalog of electronic theses and <A href="http://errol.oclc.org/"><ACRONYM title="Extensible Repository Resource Locators">ERRoLs</ACRONYM></A>. In addition, we are heavily involved in DSpace and maintain several open source systems, including the <A href="http://purl.oclc.org/"><ACRONYM title="Persistent Uniform Resource Locator">PURL</ACRONYM></A> software, and the <A href="../software/pears/default.htm">Pears</A> retrieval engine.</P>
    <P>I have been at OCLC since 1977, when I helped found the research department, and Chief Scientist since 1994.</P>
    <P>In 1998 I designed and lead the <ACRONYM title="Cooperative Online Resource Catalog">CORC</ACRONYM> project for its first year while it was a research project and then continued to lead the requirements team until CORC's release as an OCLC system in 2000.</P>
    <P>Other projects of note include doing the research that lead to OCLC's Primary Journals Online service; guiding the group that designed and developed the Guidon interface for electronic journals; and leading the development of the original <A href="../../worldwide/firstsearch/default.htm">OCLC FirstSearch</A> interface.</P>
    <H3>Weblog</H3>
    <UL>
    <LI><A href="http://outgoing.typepad.com/">Outgoing. Library metadata techniques and trends by Thom Hickey.</A> </LI></UL>
        <LI>"FRBRizing OCLC's WorldCat." 2005. With Edward T. O'Neill. <EM>Cataloging &amp; Classification Quarterly</EM>, 39,3/4: 239-251.
    <LI>"NACO Normalization: A Detailed Examination of the Authority File Comparison Rules." 2006. With Jenny Toves and Edward T. O’Neill. Forthcoming in <EM>Library Resources &amp; Technical Services (LRTS)</EM>. Pre-print available online at: <A href="../publications/archive/2006/naco-lrts.pdf" target=_blank>http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2006/naco-lrts.pdf</A> (PDF:279K/20pp.)
    <LI>"Parallel Text Searching on a Beowulf Cluster using SRW." 2005. With Ralph R. LeVan and Jenny Toves. <EM>D-Lib Magazine</EM>, 11,9 (September) <A href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/levan/09levan.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/levan/09levan.html</A>.</LI>
        <LI><A href="../projects/dspace/default.htm">DSpace Harvesting</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/etd/default.htm">Electronic Theses &amp; Dissertations</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/frbr/algorithm.htm">FRBR Work-Set Algorithm</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/xisbn/default.htm">xISBN</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/mswitch/2_recombinant.htm">Recombinant Catalog Metadata</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/oai/default.htm">Open Archives Initiative</A>
    <LI><A href="../software/opensource.htm">Open Source Software</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/openurl/default.htm">OpenURL Registry</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/purl/default.htm">PURL</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/viaf/default.htm">VIAF</A></LI>
        <LI><A href="../presentations/hickey/acrldvc2.ppt" target=_blank>A Future for the Library Catalog</A> <SPAN class=small>(.ppt: 1.5MB/22 slides). </SPAN>Association of College and Research Libraries, Delaware Valley Chapter (ACRL/DVC) 2006 Fall Program, "The Future of the Catalog: Deconstruction or Reinvention?", 3 November 2006, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (USA)
    <LI><A href="../presentations/hickey/etd2006.ppt" target=_blank>A Public Catalog of Theses and Dissertations</A> <SPAN class=small>(.ppt: 62.5K/15 slides)</SPAN>. <A href="http://www.umsl.edu/~conted/conferences/etd/"><ACRONYM title="Electronic Theses and Dissertations">ETD</ACRONYM>2006 U.S. Regional Conference</A>, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 27 October 2006, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)
    <LI><A href="../presentations/hickey/access2006.ppt" target=_blank>Matching Names in Parallel</A> <SPAN class=small>(.ppt: 404K/26 slides). </SPAN><A href="http://www.access2006.uottawa.ca/">Access 2006</A> Conference, 14 October 2006, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)</LI>

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