Homepage: Edward A. Fox, fox at vt.edu

Beware of phishing messages in my name:

Popular Links

• Long Resume (CV) and other personal and contact and schedule info.; Selected talks and tutorials
• Skype, Twitter ID: edwardafox; LinkedIn: Edward Fox; Facebook: Edward Alan Fox
• Google Scholar: Edward Fox; ORCiD: 0000-0003-1447-6870

Events/Organizations: ACM , ASIS&T, ICADL, IEEE , JCDL, SIGIR (ACM), SIGMM (Multimedia), TPDL

Digital Libraries

• Source Book on Digital Libraries (1993, leading to the Digital Library Initiative)
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): NDLTD Project, Union Catalog, Journal of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (J-ETD), NDLTD LinkedIn group page, Demonstration of HTML results and related user manual from Aman Ahuja's analysis and object detection of his ETD
• Books with Morgan and Claypool: Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries (Fox/Goncalves/Shen) , Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries: Evaluation and Integration (Shen/Goncalves/Fox) , Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security (Fox/Torres, editors), Digital Library Applications: CBIR, Education, Social Networks, eScience/Simulation, and GIS (Fox/Leidig, editors); Supplemental website; Syllabus for Spring 2014 course using the books
• Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL)
• Learning and Teaching:
  • Digital Library Curriculum Project and DLcurric site in Wikiversity;
  • Ensemble pathway for computing and successor to CITIDEL ; and NSDL
• Archiving: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) workshops at JCDL: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
• Tutorials on DLs (be sure to save as .pptx): ACM/IEEE JCDL 2020; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2019; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2018; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2017; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2016; ACM/IEEE JCDL 2013; JCDL 2011: Part 1, Part 2
• ACM Digital Library

WWW Sites:

• Virginia Tech: Campus, CS, Global Change Center, HCI Center (CHCI), Information Technology, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), Sanghani Center for AI & Data Analytics, VT Center for Autism Research
• Archive of old website eventsarchive.org: static version of Drupal site eventsarchive
• CS Tech. Reports: Virginia Tech CS TRs
• CRA: Computing Research Association homepage
• Editorial Boards: International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Journal of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (J-ETD), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS)

Prior Courses (since retiring 1/1/2025)

• CS4624 (Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access), PDF of syllabus for Spring 2014 offering
• CS4984/CS5984 (Big Data Text Summarization) (PDF of syllabus for Fall 2018)
• CS4984 (Computational Linguistics) (syllabus for Fall 2014)
• CS5604: Information Retrieval (invitation for Fall 2023), invitation for Fall 2020, and invitations for Fall 2019 and Fall 2017
• NOTE: The two above courses led to a 2016 Xcaliber Award "for making extraordinary contributions to technology enriched active learning".
• CS6604: Digital Libraries (invitation for Fall 2019)
• Course Sites: VT courses in Canvas (requiring VT login); see also CS undergraduate programs and graduate programs

Misc Other Info

• Old version of this page on 9/21/2010
• Curatorial Work and Learning in Virtual Environments in the Digital Preserve in SL, with UNC-CH
• D-Lib Magazine Archive (ending July 2017)
• Open Archives Initiative
• Virginia Disc One contents and explanatory booklet, including IR test collections hub page
• Weather in Blacksburg, VA: Weather Channel, National Weather Service, City-Data, Weather Underground
• My page on Reiki and the page of the Reiki Club at Virginia Tech; see also about Tong Ren Therapy and Acupressure and Acupuncture.