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Michael L. Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, where he has been since 2002. Previously, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center (1991-2002) and held a NASA fellowship at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000-2001). He is a key figure in digital preservation and web science, contributing to standards like OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, Memento, and ResourceSync.
His research focuses on web science, digital preservation, and repository-object interaction. He pioneered tools like Warrick for reconstructing extinct websites from crawler caches and CRATE for file type identification with preservation metadata. His work highlights the importance of public collaboration in archiving digital content.
Scientific Awards
- NSF CAREER award (2007)
- NDSA Innovation Award (inaugural recipient)
Nelson leads the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group at Old Dominion University. His team has explored the decay of social media content, including studies on the disappearance of historical web resources related to events like the Arab Spring. His projects often involve partnerships with institutions like the Library of Congress and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
