• Résumé

    Experience

    • Adjunct instructor, University of Wisconsin, 2007–2008

      • Redesigned syllabus for LIS 644, “Digital tools, trends, and debates”
      • Built lectures, designed assignments, ran classes, graded student work
    • Digital Repository Librarian, University of Wisconsin, 2007–present
      • Managed MINDS@UW institutional repository
      • Promoted MINDS@UW to faculty, recruited content, and trained faculty and librarians in MINDS@UW use
      • Performed batch imports and document format conversions
      • Chaired local MINDS@UW technical committee, system-wide repository task force
      • Served on campus/library research-computing, scholarly-communication, and electronic thesis and dissertation committees
      • Redesigned MINDS@UW user interface for upgrade to DSpace 1.5.1
      • Developed conversion processes, XML schemas, and code for shift from DSpace to Fedora
    • Digital Repository Services Librarian, George Mason University, 2005–2007
      • Managed Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS), as well as local journal-hosting initiative
      • Promoted MARS to faculty, recruited content, and trained faculty in MARS use
      • Wrote MARS policy and usage guidelines
      • Checked copyright status on submissions; handled MARS content licensing
      • Redesigned MARS’s DSpace user interface for attractiveness and usability
      • Performed batch imports and data format conversions
      • Managed MARS server; performed testing and upgrades
    • Student worker, Digital Content Group, University of Wisconsin Libraries: Spring 2005
      • Updated and improved TEI markup for digitized print books
    • Proprietor, Text Artisan Guild: 2003–2007
      • Edited DRM specification for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
      • Performed technical review on books and specifications
      • Converted data from Quark to XML and PHP arrays
      • Consulted on workflow re-engineering projects
      • Spoke for various academic and technical groups
      • Architected, designed, and built internet and intranet sites
    • Project Assistant 2, IS Data Services Specialist: Puerto Rican Census Project, University of Wisconsin Survey Center, 2002–2004
      • Maintained custom Visual Basic programming and SQL queries for Microsoft Access data-entry and data-verification databases
      • Performed automated and manual checks on data integrity and compliance
      • Entered data from microfilm in accordance with complex compliance rules
      • Documented data format and data-management procedures
    • XML/OEB Developer: OverDrive Inc., 2001–2002
      • Converted books from Quark XPress to OEBPS-compliant XML/CSS
      • Trained staff on XML
      • Evaluated and prototyped new workflows and conversion systems
      • Represented company on Open eBook Publication Structure Working Group
    • Electronic Publishing Specialist, Typesetter, Training and Procedures Specialist: Impressions Book and Journal Services, 1999–2001
      • Designed and documented SGML and XML Document Type Definitions for dictionaries, primary and secondary historical works, and scholarly/scientific books and journals
      • Engineered front-end and back-end workflows for SGML/XML-based book production
      • Converted data from various formats to SGML/XML and electronic books
      • Typeset books and journals on Penta system
      • Trained staff and wrote internal documentation on various technical topics
      • Represented company to Open eBook Forum
    • Teaching Assistant, Spanish: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997–98
      • Taught first- and second-year college Spanish
      • Planned lessons, helped write exams, created in-class activities, met with individual students, graded student work
    • Administrative Assistant: Pharmaceutical Product Development, 1994
    • Computer-lab Consultant: University Computing Services, Indiana University, 1993

    Selected technical skills

    • SGML/XML: Design and document DTDs. Read and edit XML Schema. Mark up and convert documents. Write XSLT transformations. Some RelaxNG, SAX. Familiar XML and other metadata vocabularies include: Dublin Core, EAD, METS, MODS, OEBPS, TEI, XHTML, RSS.
    • Web design and information architecture: Design accessible, usable, standards-compliant websites that look good in modern browsers. Familiar with XHTML, CSS1, CSS2, SSI, CGI, Movable Type, WordPress, wiki software.
    • Database design and management: Design (using ERD methods) and build small databases, primarily in Access. Functional in SQL. Manage PostgreSQL.
    • Programming: Python and XSLT, some Visual Basic, some Java.
    • Systems administration: Functional with Unix command-line, Postgres, Apache configuration.
    • Automated text conversion: Convert from Quark XPress, Penta, Microsoft Word, and miscellaneous text-based typesetting formats to markup.
    • Typesetting: Penta, some Quark.
    • Ebooks: Design and code ebooks in Open eBook, Microsoft Reader, MobiPocket, Franklin, SoftBook, and Rocket eBook formats.
    • Data curation: Conversant with standards and procedures for curation of research data.

    Selected bibliography

    Books and book chapters

    Articles and book reviews

    • “Name Authority Control in Institutional Repositories.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 47:3/4 (April 2009).
    • “Innkeeper at the Roach Motel.” Library Trends 57:2 (2008).
    • “Review of Mark Jordan, Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries.” Journal of Web Librarianship (Winter 2007).
    • “Review of Neil Jacobs ed. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects.” Journal of Web Librarianship (Summer 2007).
    • “Design Speaks.” netConnect, Library Journal (15 October 2006).

    Conference presentations, papers, posters, workshops, and tutorials

    (see Speaking page)

    • “Institutional Repositories: The Phoenix Reborn.” WiLSWorld 2009, Madison WI (invited)
    • “Preservation and institutional repositories.” 2009 Summer Institute on Humanities Data Curation, University of Illinois (invited)
    • “Escaping the Red Queen’s Race with Open Access.” Inauguration of “Island Scholar,” University of Prince Edward Island, 2008 (invited)
    • “A Successful Failure: Requirements Gathering for DSpace.” DSpace User Group meeting, SPARC Digital Repositories 2008 (invited)
    • “Use Cases and Usability.” Repository Fringe 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland
    • “Le IR, c’est mort; vive le IR!” Keynote address, Repository Fringe 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland
    • “Survivor: Interface!” Midwest Library Technology Conference 2008
    • “Five Weeks to a Social Library.” Poster session, ASIST Annual Conference 2007
    • Panel member, “The Future of Institutional Repositories: the Experts Debate.” ASIST 2007
    • Panel member, “Live Usability Lab: Open Access Archives and Institutional Repositories.” ASIST 2007
    • “What’s Driving Open Access?” Texas Library Association Annual Conference, April 2007 (invited)
    • “The Social Journal.” STM Innovations Seminar, 1 December 2006, London England (invited)
    • “Making DSpace Your Own” with Tim Donohue, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006; ASIST 2007
    • “Open Access for Teachers.” HigherEdBlogCon 2006
    • “Classification, Cataloguing, and Categorization Systems: Past, Present, and Future” Extreme Markup 2004, Montreal Canada
    • “Accessibility in Database Search Pages” presented for “Web Tools for Librarians” Continuing Education Seminar, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 13 May 2004
    • “Page and Screen: The Collision of Print and Electronic Publishing”
      • Computers in the Humanities Users Group (Brown University, 15 March 2001; invited)
      • Microsoft’s Research Center (9 May 2001; invited)
      • Association of Computing and Information Systems, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign (25 October 2001; invited)

    Professional affiliations, service, and awards

    Standards work

    Education

    • MLS, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    • MA, Spanish: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    • BA with Highest Distinction, Comparative Literature and Spanish: Indiana University-Bloomington.
    • High school diploma: W.G. Enloe High School, Raleigh NC
    • Selected honors and awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, National Merit Scholar, Valmai Fenster Award (for outstanding promise of exceptional scholarly contribution to the [library] profession), Outstanding Student Scholar Finalist, Beta Phi Mu, C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award.

    Additional training

    • Summer Institute on Humanities Data Curation, University of Illinois, 2009
    • Summer Institute on Data Curation, University of Illinois, 2008
    • Copyright Law and Integrated Access to Digital Course Materials, Georgia Harper, University of Maryland University College, 2008
    • Orphan Works, Gigi Sohn, University of Maryland University College, 2009
    • Campus Copyright Policy, Steven McDonald, University of Maryland University College, 2009


    References available upon request.