Anders Ardö
has a background in Computer Systems with a PhD from
Lund University in 1986. From 1979 to 1986, he held various teaching
and research positions in the Department of Computer Engineering at
Lund University. During 1986 - 1994 he held a position as
Associate Professor in Computer Engineering. Since 1992 Anders Ardö is working
with researching and developing digital library services first at
Lund University Library, development department
(NetLab), then
at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark
(DTV) and now at
Dept. of Information Technology, Lund University.
Anders Ardö founded NetLab 1992 and was department head until 1996. During this
time NetLab grew from 2 to 10 persons and marked itself as one of the
internationally leading development laboratories within the emerging
field ``digital libraries''.
From 1996 to 2002 Anders Ardö was Head of research and Scientist at DTV
development department, which matches NetLab's strong position
internationally.
Now Anders Ardö is back as Associate Professor at department of Information Technology,
Lund University,
where he is managing KnowLib - Knowledge Discovery
and Digital Library Research Group.
He is currently involved in a number of European Union and
national projects, focusing on distributed computer systems for
information discovery and retrieval.
Anders Ardö have more than 70 scientific and other publications.
His main areas of interest are
digital library development;
parallell/distributed computing;
topical Web crawling;
advanced methods for information discovery and retrieval;
and
automatic subject classification/text mining;
- Projects with EU-funding.
- Europagate
- Multifunctional
Gateway for Information Retrieval Protocols. (1993 - 1996)
- DESIRE
- Development of a European Service for Information on Research
and Education. Resource description, Metadata, Indexing,
Discovery and Retrieval. (1996 - 1998), task leader
- UNIverse
- virtual union catalogues for libraries. (1996 - 1999), task leader
- GAIA
- Generic Architecture for Information Availability, to support
electronic brokerage. (1996 - 1998), task leader
- EULER
- European Libraries and Electronic Resources
in Mathematical Sciences. (1998 - 2000)
- DESIRE-II
- follow up to DESIRE (1998 - 2000), task leader
- Renardus
- developing a brooker for an integrated European subject access service (2000 - 2002), task leader
- ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine (2004 - 2006), task leader. EU project IST-1-002068-STP.
- Test och utveckling av informationssökning med WAIS (1992-1993), project leader. Funded by BIBSAM.
- Nordic WAIS/World Wide Web Project (1993-1994), project leader. Funded by NORDINFO.
- Länkskafferiet (1995 - ) , project leader to 1996. Funded by Swedish government (Skolverket).
- Isaac II - A PERSONAL ASSISTANT FOR THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED. (1996 - 1997), project leader. Funded by CERTEC, Lund University.
- Nordic Web Index
a collaborative effort across the Nordic countries, providing a free regional Web search engine. (1996 - 1999), project leader. Funded by NORDINFO.
- DADS - Electronic Fulltext Journals (1997 - 2000 ) (DTV), project leader, design and development. Several funding sources.
- DEF portal
(1999 - 2000 ), technical project leader. Funded by Danish government (DEF).
- Cross searching of SBIGs
(1999 - 2000 ), project leader. Funded by NORDINFO.
- DEF fagportal (SBIG) toolkit (2000), project leader. Funded by Danish government (DEF).
- Networked implementation of a distributed electronic journal collection and full
text archive (DACAPO)
(2000 - 2002), project leader. Funded by NORDUNET 2.
- Intelligent Components of a
Distributed Digital Library
(KLIC-DDL), project leader. Funded by VINNOVA, Swedish Agency for
Innovation Systems.
Full CV
Department of Information Technology
Lund University
Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Visiting address: Ole Römers väg 3
Tel: int +46-46-222 7522
Fax: int +46-46-222 4714
E-mail: anders@eit.lth.se
URL: http://www.it.lth.se/anders/
Last changed: Jan 04, 2008
