Stanford Digital Library Project
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The Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP) (also called The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project and The Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project) was a research program run by Hector Garcia-Molina
, Terry Winograd
, Dan Boneh
, and Andreas Paepcke at Stanford University
in the mid-1990s to 2004. The primary goal of the SDLP project was to "provide an infrastructure that affords interoperability among heterogeneous, autonomous digital library services." and described elsewhere as "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, proving uniform access to the large number of emerging networked information sources and collections."
The SDLP is notable in the history of Google
as a primary sources of funding for Lawrence Page's and Sergey Brin
(Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
) during the period they developed the precursors and initial versions of the Google search engine prior to the incorporation of Google
as a private entity. It was also while at Stanford working under the SDLP that Lawrence Page filed his patent for PageRank
.
The SDLP itself was funded by coalition of federal agencies including the National Science Foundation
as well as donations from industry sponsors.
Hector Garcia-Molina
Héctor García-Molina is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and ElectricalEngineering at Stanford University. He has served at the U.S...
, Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group...
, Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering atStanford University. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of applied cryptographyand computer security.-Education:...
, and Andreas Paepcke at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in the mid-1990s to 2004. The primary goal of the SDLP project was to "provide an infrastructure that affords interoperability among heterogeneous, autonomous digital library services." and described elsewhere as "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, proving uniform access to the large number of emerging networked information sources and collections."
The SDLP is notable in the history of Google
History of Google
This article covers the history of Google, the most widely used web-based search engine in the world.-Early history:Google began in March 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project...
as a primary sources of funding for Lawrence Page's and Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....
(Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
NSF-GRF
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is an annual grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to approximately 2,000 doctoral-level students in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US institutions...
) during the period they developed the precursors and initial versions of the Google search engine prior to the incorporation of Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
as a private entity. It was also while at Stanford working under the SDLP that Lawrence Page filed his patent for PageRank
PageRank
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google Internet search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set...
.
The SDLP itself was funded by coalition of federal agencies including the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
as well as donations from industry sponsors.