Stanford Digital Library Project
{{Short description|Research program}}
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.{{Cite web
| title = The Stanford Digital Libraries Technologies Project
| accessdate = 2009-07-24
| url = http://diglib.stanford.edu:8091/
}} The team also included librarians Rebecca Wesley and Vicky Reich.{{Cite web
| title = The People: Stanford Participants
| accessdate = 2018-10-05
| url = http://diglib.stanford.edu:8091/diglib/pub/people.shtml
}} The primary goal of the SDLP project was to "provide an infrastructure that affords interoperability among heterogeneous, and autonomous digital library services."{{Cite journal
| last = Baldonado
| first = Michelle |author2=Chen-chuan K Chang |author3=Luis Gravano |author4=Andreas Paepcke
| title = The Stanford Digital Library Metadata Architecture
| year = 1997
| citeseerx = 10.1.1.42.6281 }} 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."[https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306 The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project], Award Abstract #9411306, September 1, 1994 through August 31, 1999 (Estimated), award amount $4,516,573.
The SDLP is notable in the history of Google as a primary source of funding for Larry Page 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.{{Cite journal
| volume = 30
| issue = 1–7
| pages = 107–117
| last = Brin
| first = Sergey
|author2=Lawrence Page
| title = The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
| journal = Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
| year = 1998
| doi = 10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X
| citeseerx = 10.1.1.109.4049
}} It was also while at Stanford working under the SDLP that Larry Page filed his patent for PageRank.Patent Number: 6285999 {{Citation
| last = Page
| first = Lawrence
| title = Method for node ranking in a linked database
| accessdate = 2009-07-24
| date = 2001-09-04
| url = http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,285,999.PN.&OS=PN/6,285,999&RS=PN/6,285,999
}}
The SDLP itself was funded by coalition of federal agencies including the National Science Foundation as well as donations from industry sponsors.