Ray Larson specializes in the design
and performance evaluation of information systems, and the evaluation of user
interaction with those systems. His background includes work as a programmer/analyst
with the UC Division of Library Automation (DLA) where he was involved in the
design, development, and performance evaluation of the UC public access online
union catalog (MELVYL). His research has concentrated on the design and
evaluation of information retrieval systems, with an emphasis on online library
catalogs and digital libraries. Prof. Larson was a faculty investigator
on the Sequoia 2000 project, where he was involved in the design and evaluation
of a very-large-scale, network-based, information system to support the information
needs of scientists studying global change. He is also a faculty investigator
on the UC Berkeley Environmental Digital Library Project (one of the six large-scale
digital library projects sponsored by NSF, NASA and ARPA) where the work is continuing
on a very large environmental information system providing access to information
on the California Environment. Prof. Larson was the principal investigator for
the "CHESHIRE Demonstration and Evaluation Project" sponsored by the US Dept.
of Education, that is developing a next-generation online catalog and full-text
retrieval system. He is a co-principal investigator for the "Searching Unfamiliar
Metadata Vocabularies" project sponsored by DARPA. Prof. Larson is principal
investigator of the "Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and
Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data" project sponsored by NSF as part of
the International Digital Libraries program.
Ray R. Larson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-4600
Email: ray@sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu