2015-07-27: Upcoming Colloquium, Visit from Herbert Van de Sompel

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) will give a colloquium in the ODU Computer Science Department entitled "A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly Web". It will be held in the third floor E&CS conference room (r. 3316) at 11am. Space is somewhat limited (the first floor auditorium is being renovated), but all are welcome to attend. The abstract for his talk is: A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly Web As the scholarly communication system evolves to become natively web-based and starts supporting the communication of a wide variety of objects, the manner in which its essential functions -- registration, certification, awareness, archiving -- are fulfilled co-evolves. Illustrations of the changing implementation of these functions will be used to arrive at a high-level characterization of a future scholarly communication system and of the objects that will be communicated. The focus will then shift to the fu