Robert Sanderson

Dr Robert Sanderson is an information scientist in the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory and previously a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on the areas of scholarly communication, especially with regards to digital humanities and large scale data mining. He was won international awards for his research, including the 2010 Digital Preservation Award and both the Vannevar Bush Best Paper award at JCDL2011 and Best Poster Award at JCDL2012. Between 2009 and 2011, he was the UIUC GSLIS Honorary Research Fellow for his interdisciplinary work in digital humanities. Dr Sanderson has been co-PI for national level projects, such as the Open Annotation Collaboration in the US and FORESITE in the UK, and named Investigator on multiple EU funded projects in the FP7 and eContentPlus streams. He is an editor of several international specifications including, most recently, the W3C Open Annotation Community Draft, IETF Memento Internet Draft, and NISO Resource Synchronization. He also has close ties with the very large scale digital library community, including working with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Europeana and DPLA, as well as being a founding member of the UK's National Center for Text Mining.