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
- A Research Guide to Fantasy Authors. With Jen Stevens. Greenwood Press (2008).
- “Libraries as E-Publishers.” In Rachel Singer Gordon ed. Information Tomorrow: reflections on technology and the future of public and academic libraries, 2007.
- “Electronic books and the OEBF Publication Structure.” With Allen Renear. In The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. Columbia University Press (2002) pp. 455–520.
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
- “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
- Library Journal Mover and Shaker, 2009
- Winner, 2008 Open Access Day Synchroblogging Competition, for “My Father the Anthropologist”
- Planning committee, “Five Weeks to a Social Library” online workshop, February–March 2007
- Member, Washington Research Library Consortium’s DSpace Working Group, 2005–2006
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
Standards work
- Technical editor, DAISY Protected Digital Talking Book specification (2007)
- Editor, Open eBook Publication Structure version 1.0.1
- Scribe, Open eBook Forum Publication Structure Working Group, 2000–2002
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.