Naomi Dushay's Home Page

I am a Senior Programmer/Analyst in the Stanford University Libraries in the Digital Library Systems & Services Unit . 

My particular interests are information discovery, particularly meeting the end users' needs, and information visualization.

Publications

• C. Lagoze, D. Krafft, T. Cornwell, N. Dushay, D. Eckstrom, J.Saylor "Metadata Aggregation and "Automated Digital Libraries": A Retrospective on the NSDL Experience," JCDL-2006: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006. Vannevar Bush award for best paper. http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0601125 (draft)
• N. Dushay, "Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata: A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer," D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 10, no. 10, October, 2004.
  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october04/dushay/10dushay.html
• D. Hillmann, N. Dushay and J. Phipps, "Improving Metadata Quality: Augmentation and Recombination," DC-2004: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Shanghai, China, October, 2004. 
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/naomi/DC2004/MetadataAugmentation--DC2004.pdf (draft)
• N. Dushay and D. Hillmann, "Analyzing Metadata for Effective Use and Re-use," DC-2003: 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, September 2003.
  http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/Archive-03/03dushay.pdf
• W.Y. Arms, N. Dushay, D. Fulker and C. Lagoze, "A Case Study in Metadata Harvesting: the NSDL," Library HiTech Vol. 21, no. 2, 2003.
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/Arms-et-al-LibraryHiTech.pdf (draft)
• N. Dushay, "Localizing Experience of Digital Content via Structural Metadata," JCDL-2002: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, Oregon, 2002.
  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=544220.544274
• N. Dushay, "Using Structural Metadata to Localize Experience of Digital Content," Technical Report, December, 2001.
  http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0112017
• N. Dushay and C.Lagoze, "Modeling Decisions for Digital Content," Cornell University Computer Science, Technical Report TR2000-1807, July, 2000.
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR2000-1807
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library," ECDL99: Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Paris, France, September, 1999. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1696)
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR99-1743 (draft)
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries," Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM'99), Berkeley, CA, August, 1999.
  http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/9902020 (draft)
• N. Dushay, J. C. French and C. Lagoze, "A Characterization Study of NCSTRL Distributed Searching," Cornell University Computer Science, Technical Report TR99-1725, January, 1999.
  http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR99-1725

Other Work Related Materials

Personal Interests

Music

I listen to music a great deal and I make music too - I play the French horn (for over 30 years).  I was a classical purist for 20 years or so, but these days I'm into celtic, bluegrass, cuban, tango, jazz and more.

Travel

I've had the good fortune lately of being able to travel to some really great places.  Patagonia.  The Galapagos.  The Dolomites.  Alaska.  Tanzania  The Grand Canyon 

Reading

I'm an avid reader, and a while back I put together an annotated list of my favorite books.

Family

silly picture of life imitating art (huge, sorry)

silly picture of me during June 2002 Trail Maintenance (huge, sorry)

even sillier picture of me on trail Maintenance (huge, sorry)

silly picture of me on Red Groom's "The Bus" museum exhibit 3-14-02

equally silly picture of me and Diane 3-5-02

Mildred Friedman (Lester's aunt) in a fireman's outfit.  She was 94 3/4 when this photo was taken!

Dated photo of my family (my parents, my brothers and their wives, and two nephlings).

last updated 05/26/2008