Speakers
Keynotes
University of Michigan School of Information
Speaker Bio for Libby Hemphill
Libby Hemphill (Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information, Research Associate Professor, U-M Institute for Social Research, and Director, ICPSR’s Resource Center for Minority Data and founding Director, ICPSR’s Social Media Archive) studies social computing and digital curation. Her research on social computing has demonstrated the impact of social media on Congressional behavior, has shown how social media platforms shape public discourse in virtual and IRL public spaces, and has developed a natural language processing approach to detecting and intervening to de-escalate abusive online behavior. Her research in digital curation has studied the responsible and ethical use and reuse of datasets in research, the design of infrastructure and technology to support research data archives, the importance of curation for improving the FAIRness of social media and other data, and the impact of data reuse. Her practice of digital curation at ICPSR has made available transformative data such as TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, and SOMAR, a platform for transparent, reproducible preservation and ethical access to social media data. She has worked with the Anti-Defamation League to understand and respond to online hate, and she has created a post-baccalaureate program to diversify the pipeline of students engaged in computational social science research. She is a transformative scholar who has used her expertise and position to democratize data access.
University of Michigan School of Information
Speaker Bio for Dr. Patricia Garcia
Dr. Patricia Garcia conducts qualitative research on the complex relationship between race, gender, technology, and justice. She is currently partnering with public libraries to study how a computational justice program model can support girls of color (ages 13-16) develop agentic computing identities. This research involves the design of computing education programs that support girls of color in situating their computing identities within broader self-concepts and in ways that highlight how the intersections of race and gender can function as sources of power, rather than simply sites of marginalization. Her other related work examines how harmful data practices perpetuate structural inequities along racialized and gendered lines, and she collaborates with data practitioners to imagine and enact more equitable data futures. Her work spans the fields of computing education, learning sciences, youth studies, and critical data studies.
Talks and Workshops
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Software Developer
UCLA
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Software Developer
University of Texas at Austin Libraries
Speaker Bio for Addison Ashworth
Talk: Rethinking Digital Asset Management at University of Texas with OCFL in Fedora 6
Speaker Bio for Chris Banuelos
Poster: Case Study, Jr.: How Digital Preservation System Designs Can Impact Workflows
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Head of Library Systems and IT
Sacramento State University
Speaker Bio for Erik Beck
Erik Beck has served as department head of the Sacramento State University Library's IT Department since 2019. Prior to that he was Digital Service Librarian for the William A. Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado. His specialties are online publishing and management principles.
Talk: Common Pitfalls of Project Management In Academic Libraries
Interlibrary Loan and Access Services Specialist
Loyola University Chicago, Health Sciences Library
Speaker Bio for Christopher Beger
Talk: Move Fast and Fill Things: Using Python for Full-Text Retrieval
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Digital Scholarship & Liaison Librarian
University of Toronto, Mississauga Library
Speaker Bio for Magnus Berg
Magnus Berg (they/he) is a Digital Scholarship & Liaison Librarian at the University of Toronto, Mississauga where they manage and contribute to digitization and digital scholarship projects both in the library and across campus. They are particularly passionate about stewarding the library's media and video game collections and hold both a Master of Library and Information Science from Western University and a Master of Arts in Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Talk: We Can Build That: Custom Python Applets for Digital Preservation Processing
Speaker Bio for Allan Berry
Poster: Making the website of a cash-strapped academic library work: lessons on LibGuides.
Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Speaker Bio for Henna D. Bhramdat
Talk: Multi-Modal Machine Learning to Enhance the Accessibility of Natural History Collections
Speaker Bio for Andrea Bollini
Poster: Beyond DSpace: DSpace-CRIS & DSpace-GLAM as extended datamodels
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Software Engineer
California Digital Library
Speaker Bio for Raiden van Bronkhorst
Raiden is a Software Engineer at the California Digital Library working on machine learning applications and the metadata management system for the HathiTrust. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Western Washington University.
Talk: Lessons learned: How to get traction with AI and start building
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Director of Technology
Video Game History Foundation
Speaker Bio for Travis Brown
Travis Brown is the Director of Technology at the Video Game History Foundation. When he's not working on his day job as Director of Developer Relations at Live Aware Labs, he's working on restoring arcade cabinets and vintage motorcycles.
Talk: Integrating Digital Library Platforms: The DIY Approach
Speaker Bio for Emma Brown
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Sr. Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
University of Michigan Library
Speaker Bio for Bridget Burke
Bridget Burke is Sr. Front-end Developer and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library where they focus on using web standards to create user-centered, accessible interfaces in digital library applications. Bridget is also co-creator and Lead of the U-M Library Design System. Bridget has been making websites since the '90s and loves creative web work.
Talk: Make Time for Design: Integrating Design Ops Creates Big Value for Small Teams
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Data Analyst
University of North Texas Libraries
Speaker Bio for Sephra Byrne
Sephra Byrne works at the University of North Texas as a data analyst for the Collection Assessment Department analyzing data about patrons and the library's collections and developing better ways to collect, process, and store data about our collections and their impact on student and faculty outcomes.
Talk: Automation of Subject Analysis in Collection Evaluations
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Digital and Audiovisual Archivist
James Madison University
Speaker Bio for Bodeene Amyot Cairdeas
Talk: [Re]Thinking Digital Infrastructure: Centering Humans in Integrated Systems Work
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Systems & Technical Processes Librarian
University of Alabama
Speaker Bio for Brian Clark
Brian Clark is the Systems & Technical Processes Librarian at the University of Alabama. He is the ILS and proxy server administrator and regularly works with metadata in a variety of formats and the institutional repository.
Talk: Institution repository collection development with web scraping
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Software Engineer
California Digital Library
Speaker Bio for Charlie Collett
Charlie is a Software Engineer for the California Digital Library at the University of California. His current responsibilities include processing and managing metadata for the HathiTrust, and collaborating on AI development and analysis.
Talk: Lessons learned: How to get traction with AI and start building
Speaker Bio for Elena Colon-Marrero
Workshop: Digital Forensics for Libraries and Archives: Introduction to Using BitCurator
Speaker Bio for Claudio Cortese
Poster: Beyond DSpace: DSpace-CRIS & DSpace-GLAM as extended datamodels
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Program Specialist, National Center for Data Services
Network of the National Library of Medicine, National Center for Data Services
Speaker Bio for Justin de la Cruz
Justin has worked in public, academic, and medical libraries on topics in digital literacy and educational technology. He studied at Florida State University and Simmons University and lives in Asheville, NC.
Speaker Bio for Matthew Cruz
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
Senior Software Developer
University of Texas at Austin Libraries
Speaker Bio for Nicole Currens
Talk: Rethinking Digital Asset Management at University of Texas with OCFL in Fedora 6
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Data Librarian
University of Toronto
Speaker Bio for Christina Cutler
Christina has been an accessibility advocate among her library teams. These teams include her previous role as a student working to make author's work openly accessible on the University of Toronto's Institutional Repository TSpace. As well as her current team with the University of Toronto's Map and Data Library.
Talk: Creating Accessible Documents As Non-Authors: Tools, Strategies, & The False Idol of AI
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Associate Head, User Experience
NC State University Libraries
Speaker Bio for Robin Davis
Robin Camille Davis is the Associate Head of User Experience at NC State University Libraries, where she conducts user research, coordinates content strategy, and advocates for accessible practices.
Talk: Beyond Band-Aids: Rethinking Accessibility Widgets
Workshop: The Art and Science of Perfectly Tolerable Web Forms
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Systems Librarian
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Speaker Bio for Katherine "Kate" Deibel
Dr. Kate Deibel is a longstanding advocate for accessibility and usability in library technologies. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington but would much rather talk about web comics, chili peppers, her cat, technology adoption, and changing the world. She briefly left libraries for industry but is happily back working as PCOM Library's systems librarian.
Talk: Change is Afoot: What WCAG2.2, WCAG3, ..., WCAG9000? Mean for Libraries
Speaker Bio for Erica Ervin
Poster: Engaging in peer-to-peer teaching and learning: Students as Collaborators with the Library
Speaker Bio for Jody Fagan
Talk: [Re]Thinking Digital Infrastructure: Centering Humans in Integrated Systems Work
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Speaker Bio for Bobbi Fox
Bobbi Fox is a software developer who has worked in the library/archives space for more than a decade. She has attended 12 previous code4lib conferences .
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Head of Metadata Analysis & Operations
James Madison University
Speaker Bio for Rebecca French
Talk: [Re]Thinking Digital Infrastructure: Centering Humans in Integrated Systems Work
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Speaker Bio for Nicolas Gauthier
Talk: Multi-Modal Machine Learning to Enhance the Accessibility of Natural History Collections
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Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director
Drexel Metadata Research Center
Speaker Bio for Jane Greenberg
From Drexel Website: Jane Greenberg is the Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director of the Metadata Research Center at the College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University. Her research activities focus on metadata, knowledge organization/semantics, linked data, data science, and information economics. She serves on the advisory board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the steering committee for the NSF Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDIH). She is the lead PI on the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) linked data project.
Talk: Aligning Keywords from Long Form Prose to Controlled Vocabulary
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Fedora Program Manager
Fedora
Speaker Bio for Arran Griffith
Talk: Community Source Software: Complex collaborations as told by two Program Managers
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Software Engineer
Internet Scout Research Group, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Speaker Bio for Corey Halpin
Corey Halpin is a software engineer at the Internet Scout Research Group in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. Scout works at the intersection of Computer Science and Library and Information Science, creating digital resource collections and software to support them. Prior to joining Scout, Corey earned a PhD in Forestry from UW-Madison by using simulation models (written primarily in C++, Perl, Lua, and GNU R) to understand the patterns of biomass development in the forests of northern Wisconsin.
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Developer
GBH Archives (WGBH Educational Foundation)
Speaker Bio for Ryan "Harpo" Harbert
Ryan “Harpo” Harbert is a Developer for GBH Media Library & Archives, helping to maintain the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, and other websites. His experience extends beyond programming to media production, music performance, theatrical design, and many others, with the mission of creating new tools to enable the impossible!
Talk: Whispering at any volume: Scalable speech recognition for all
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Collection Assessment Librarian
University of North Texas Libraries
Speaker Bio for Karen Harker
Karen Harker earned her MLS from Texas Woman’s University in 1999 and her MPH from UT School of Public Health in 2007. From 2000 to 2009 she evaluated and developed Web-based information systems for UT Southwestern Medical Center Library. After three years as biostatistician for a psychiatry clinical trial, she returned to librarianship in 2012 to serve as Collection Assessment Librarian for the University of North Texas Libraries. She has applied her skills in research methods, statistical analysis, and data management to the broad evaluation of library collections.
Talk: Automation of Subject Analysis in Collection Evaluations
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Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian
San Diego State University
Speaker Bio for Greta Heng
Greta Heng is Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian at San Diego State University. Her research interests include linked open data, semantic web, identity management, and information search behavior.
Talk: Enhancing Cataloging of Electronic Government Documents with Programming and OpenAI
Speaker Bio for Suviksha Hirawat
Speaker Bio for Garth Holman
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
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Scholarly Communication and Open Initiatives Librarian
San Diego State University
Speaker Bio for Kate Holvoet
Talk: Enhancing Cataloging of Electronic Government Documents with Programming and OpenAI
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Metadata Services Coordinator
University of Houston
Speaker Bio for Susan Hoover
Susan Hoover is a former software engineer with experience on projects as diverse as a military flight simulator, byte-level communications software, Bayesian forecasting, and cloud devops. They love to figure out how things work. In their second career, they are a second-year librarian with the freedom to learn and use tools for scripting and automation.
Speaker Bio for Esther Jackson
Poster: Automating FAST subject heading assignment in the repository - some initial challenges
Speaker Bio for Kaitlyn Jarnagin
Poster: Designing a Flexible, Standards-Adherent Date Field for Novices and Professionals
Poster: Designing Digital Directives
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Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan School of Information
Speaker Bio for Jesse Johnston
Jesse Johnston is a Clinical Assistant Professor who joined UMSI in 2022. Johnston has been active in the cultural heritage field as an administrator, librarian, archivist, and civil servant. As senior librarian for digital content at the Library of Congress, he managed policy development and training initiatives at the Library's Digital Collections Management unit established in 2018. Prior to that, he served as a senior program officer for preservation and access at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where coordinated a program portfolio that awarded $1.5 million through competitive grants annually. He also created and coordinated the NEH's first (and only) community archiving program, Common Heritage. From 2012 to 2013, he was an archivist at the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian Center for Cultural Heritage. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland iSchool, George Mason University, and Bowling Green State University.
Talk: Encoding Reparative Description: Developing Tools to Analyze Problematic Finding Aids
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Software Engineer
NYPL
Speaker Bio for Sarang Joshi
Sarang Joshi is a backend Software Engineer at the New York Public Library. He loves riding his bike.
Talk: OCR and PDFs - the possibilities and limitations for accessibility
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Education Manager
Constellate
Speaker Bio for Nathan Kelber
PhD working for social justice and open educational resources in data science and the digital humanities. Education Manager at Constellate and Director of the Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute. https://nkelber.com
Workshop: What You Can Do With Word Counts: Learning the Basics of Text Analysis with Constellate
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Metadata Operations Specialist
GBH Archives (WGBH Educational Foundation)
Speaker Bio for Owen C. King
Owen C. King is Metadata Operations Specialist at GBH Archives, working on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. He coordinates work on automated processing and metadata workflows for archival television and radio programming. Beyond archives and information science, he has a background in philosophy, with research and teaching in well-being and information ethics.
Talk: Whispering at any volume: Scalable speech recognition for all
Speaker Bio for Michael B. Klein
Workshop: GenAI4Lib: A Practical Introduction to Large Language Models
Speaker Bio for Cecilia Krum
Poster: Designing Digital Directives
Poster: An Archivematica-Powered Digital Preservation System for the General Public
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Head of Digital Assets
James Madison University
Speaker Bio for Mark Lane
Talk: [Re]Thinking Digital Infrastructure: Centering Humans in Integrated Systems Work
Speaker Bio for Maccabee Levine
Poster: Building an open source single-search discovery implementation
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Research Assistant
University of Michigan School of Information
Speaker Bio for Ella Li
Ella Li (she/her) is a graduate researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information, dedicated to examining inequity within sociotechnical systems. Her primary focus is on supporting marginalized and vulnerable communities, especially sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. Ella explores the design and development of ethical, inclusive, and equitable technologies aimed at bridging disparities. This focus will continue to guide her future research. Ella also actively participates in various social justice activities in her daily life. As a research assistant, Ella contributes to the design and development of an automation tool for auditing harmful content and conducts analyses on finding aids.
Talk: Encoding Reparative Description: Developing Tools to Analyze Problematic Finding Aids
Software Engineering Manager
JSTOR Labs
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Speaker Bio for Matthew Lincoln
Matthew is a software engineer and manager who leads the technical team for JSTOR Labs. He's originally an art historian and digital humanist and interested in all things cultural heritage data.
Workshop: What You Can Do With Word Counts: Learning the Basics of Text Analysis with Constellate
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Head of Content Organization and Management
San Diego State University
Speaker Bio for Nerissa Lindsey
Talk: Enhancing Cataloging of Electronic Government Documents with Programming and OpenAI
Speaker Bio for Liam Lloyd
Poster: Designing Digital Directives
Poster: An Archivematica-Powered Digital Preservation System for the General Public
Speaker Bio for Monica Maceli
Poster: From Screenly to OPACs and more: Putting Idle Raspberry Pis to Work
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Senior Technical Project Manager, eReading
New York Public Library
Speaker Bio for Stephanie Mannheim
Stephanie Mannheim is Senior Technical Project Manager for eReading at the New York Public Library. She is currently co-chair of the ALA's GNCRT (Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table) Metadata and Cataloging Committee. Stephanie previously worked at Comixology and the Barnard College Library and Archives, where she worked with metadata and cataloging for both digital and print materials.
Talk: One Team, Multiple Initiatives: Project Management and Collaboration Across a Library Team
PhD Student
Drexel Metadata Research Center
Speaker Bio for Scott McClellan
Talk: Aligning Keywords from Long Form Prose to Controlled Vocabulary
Speaker Bio for Shannon McDermitt
Poster: From PDF Coordinates to GeoJSON: Transforming the DTE Aerial Collection, One Map at a Time
Speaker Bio for Summer Mengarelli
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
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Data Strategist
UW-Madison
Speaker Bio for Steve Meyer
Speaker Bio for Eric Lease Morgan
Workshop: Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader
Poster: The Distant Reader
Speaker Bio for Susanna Mornati
Poster: Beyond DSpace: DSpace-CRIS & DSpace-GLAM as extended datamodels
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Senior Lecturer: Academic Development
University of Cape Town
Speaker Bio for Siddique Motala
Siddique Motala, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research is on historical mapping and digital storytelling, and socially just and innovative pedagogies in engineering education.
Talk: Building a Walking Tour App to Increase Knowledge and Empathy for Complex Historical Sites
Speaker Bio for Nikhil Motwani
Speaker Bio for Amelia Mowry
Poster: Exploring Subject Analysis with Annif: Testing a Machine Learning Tool for Subject Heading Creation
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Digital Preservation Librarian
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Speaker Bio for Grayson Murphy
Talk: Wrangling the Past: Using Python to Prepare Legacy Digital Collections and ETDs for Preservation
Poster: Automating File Organization by Leveraging Patterns with Python
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Technical Team Manager
California Digital Library
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Speaker Bio for Chad Nelson
Tech Lead at California Digital Library. Angeleno. Erstwhile Librarian. Photographer. Aspiring Bassist. Maker of weird web stuff. Real time jingle blaster. Low key gooner.
Talk: Everything old is new again : What we could have learned from a book on COBOL from 1976, but didn’t
Speaker Bio for Maria Nuccilli
Poster: From PDF Coordinates to GeoJSON: Transforming the DTE Aerial Collection, One Map at a Time
Speaker Bio for Nicté Ordóñez-Garza
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
Speaker Bio for Brandon Patterson
Poster: Engaging in peer-to-peer teaching and learning: Students as Collaborators with the Library
Speaker Bio for Damith Perera
Poster: Designing an open-source application to record Library Door Traffic Counter
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Data Scientist
UCLA
Systems Librarian
California College of the Arts
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Speaker Bio for Eric Phetteplace
Eric is a Systems Librarian who manages a wide variety of library and learning technology systems. His professional interests include digital preservation, web development, workflow automation, integrating systems using APIs, and user experience. He loves reading, walking in cities and in nature, and worries continuously about climate change.
Workshop: Python{4}Lib
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MLIS Student
Drexel Metadata Research Center
Speaker Bio for Kio Polson
Kio is an MLIS student at Drexel and definitely not a bona fide city nymph. Kio has been coding since the 8th grade working on various personal projects, and there has absolutely never been a personal project to charm privateers to lose their stolen goods. In Kio’s spare time they enjoy acting, playing piano, and never shape-shifting.
Talk: Aligning Keywords from Long Form Prose to Controlled Vocabulary
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Cataloging policy specialist, Library of Congress, Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division
Library of Congress
Speaker Bio for Melani Polutta
Melanie Polutta started as a cataloger at the Library of Congress in 2000, and became fascinated by metadata. At the same time, she continued to pursue a parallel interest in computers, through linked data, coding, and data manipulation. Learning about code empowers catalogers to use all that wonderful metadata that they spend all that time recording, which turns out to be constantly useful in Melanie's work with cataloging policy and documentation.
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Digital Repository Manager
Emory University Libraries
Speaker Bio for Emily Porter
Talk: Community Source Software: Complex collaborations as told by two Program Managers
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Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems
Georgia Southern University
Speaker Bio for Wilhelmina Randtke
Wilhelmina Randtke has a background in law and technology. Her past roles include legal research, technology oversight, and product manager for cloud based publishing software. She is currently Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems at the Georgia Southern University Libraries overseeing in-building technology and online presences.
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Senior Library Software Engineer
Princeton University Library
Speaker Bio for Bess Sadler
Bess has been building free and open source software for almost thirty years and believes in the liberation potential of open culture, open science, and open technology. Currently, they work building infrastructure to enable reproducible open science.
Talk: The Compassion of DevOps
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Library Director
Video Game History Foundation
Speaker Bio for Phil Salvador
Phil Salvador is the Library Director at the Video Game History Foundation. His research on video game history and preservation has been featured on NPR, The Verge, and Ars Technica. But most of all, he is a friend to all birds.
Talk: Integrating Digital Library Platforms: The DIY Approach
Speaker Bio for Justin Schell
Poster: Engaging in peer-to-peer teaching and learning: Students as Collaborators with the Library
Digital Curation Librarian
Drexel University
Speaker Bio for Matthew Sherman
Matt Sherman is the Digital Curation Librarian at the Drexel University Libraries where he plays a lead role in acquiring, managing, preserving and providing access to the University’s digital collections, including both born-digital and digitized materials. He also provides support for the Libraries’ scholarly communications services. Prior to coming to Drexel, Matt worked as the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and as the Digital Content Librarian at the University of Bridgeport. During his schooling, he held various digital collections and archives positions at the Wisconsin State Historical Society Archives and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Archives. Matt holds an MLIS from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BS in History from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Speaker Bio for Elisabeth Shook
Speaker Bio for Kelly A. Speer
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
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Senior Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Speaker Bio for Scott St. Louis
Scott St. Louis is the Senior Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He holds a master’s degree in information science from the University of Michigan.
Talk: Automating Metadata Hygiene to Improve Economic Research Discoverability
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Access Services and Emerging Technology Librarian
Loyola University Chicago, Health Sciences Library
Speaker Bio for Tiffany Tawzer
Tiffany Tawzer is the Access Services and Emerging Technology Librarian at the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Library. They also serve as the library’s assessment specialist, scholarly communication, and data services librarian. Tiffany recently achieved a Level I Data Services Specialization through the Medical Library Association.
Talk: Move Fast and Fill Things: Using Python for Full-Text Retrieval
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Software Developer
UCLA
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Repository Services Manager
University of Chicago
Speaker Bio for Kirsten Vallee
Kirsten Vallee is the Repository Services Manager at the University of Chicago. They ensure scholarly resources are easily accessible, furthering the reach of academic knowledge through Knowledge@UChicago.
Talk: kwalk: a simple program to crosswalk metadata for repository uploads
Speaker Bio for Sarai Vega
Poster: Automating FAST subject heading assignment in the repository - some initial challenges
Speaker Bio for Federico Verlicchi
Poster: Beyond DSpace: DSpace-CRIS & DSpace-GLAM as extended datamodels
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Clinical Associate Professort
University of Michigan
Speaker Bio for David A. Wallace
David A. Wallace is a Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of archives, records, community engagement and information ethics
Talk: Building a Walking Tour App to Increase Knowledge and Empathy for Complex Historical Sites
Speaker Bio for Brian C. Weeks
Poster: M-PABI: A Database Model for the Extended Specimens of a Pathogen Biorepository
Speaker Bio for Olivia Wikle
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Web Developer
NC State University Libraries
Speaker Bio for Meredith Wynn
Meredith Wynn has been a web developer in NC State University Libraries’ User Experience department since 2018.
University of Texas at Austin Libraries
Speaker Bio for Larry Yang
Talk: Rethinking Digital Asset Management at University of Texas with OCFL in Fedora 6
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Senior Software Engineer
JSTOR Labs
Speaker Bio for Andromeda Yelton
Andromeda Yelton is a librarian-flavored software engineer at JSTOR Labs. In the past she has written code for the Library of Congress, the Berkman Klein Center, the MIT Libraries, the Wikimedia Foundation, and bespoke knitting patterns, among other things. She's probably thinking about planes.
Talk: Everything could have been different: why computers are like that
George A Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
Speaker Bio for Borui Zhang
Talk: Multi-Modal Machine Learning to Enhance the Accessibility of Natural History Collections