Speakers
Keynotes
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Howard University
Speaker Bio for Brandon Nightingale
Brandon Nightingale is the Senior Project Manager of the Black Press Archives Digitization Project at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University and a PhD student in the Department of History. He holds a BA in History from the University of Central Florida, an MA in Public History from UCF, and an MS in Information Science from Florida State University. At MSRC, he leads a multi-year effort to digitize, preserve, and expand access to one of the largest and most significant collections of Black newspapers in the world. His work focuses on Black print culture, archival preservation, digital access, and the role of technology in shaping historical memory. His dissertation examines the institutional history of the Black Press Archives, its connections to Pan-African thought, and its impact on public understanding of Black life.
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Cornell University
Speaker Bio for Dr. J. Nathan Matias
Dr. J. Nathan Matias (@natematias@social.coop, @natematias.bsky.social) is a computer scientist and social scientist who organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. A Guatemalan-American, Nathan is founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab and an assistant professor in the Cornell University Department of Communication. Matias has worked with online communities around the world to test effective ways for people to come together to create, maintain, and protect public goods online. He also studies the science of freedom of expression and diversity in knowledge-making endeavors. His work in design has received awards from FastCompany, and his research and advocacy has received awards from the Association for Computing Machinery and the Mozilla Foundation. Matias has published scholarship in journals including Nature, Science, and PNAS. His journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Adventure Cyclist Magazine, and many others.
Talks and Workshops
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Research Data Librarian
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Speaker Bio for Kaylee P. Alexander
Kaylee P. Alexander is a Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, where she was previously the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital Matters. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from Duke University and specializes in nineteenth-century visual culture, monuments, and funerary material culture. Her research is embedded in transdisciplinary practices at the intersection of visual studies, material culture, and data science. She is the author of A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924 (Routledge, 2024)
Talk: From Beta to RC: The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT)
Speaker Bio for Dr. Nima Asadi
Talk: Protecting Digital Library Resources through ML-Based Detection of Automated Access Patterns
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Metadata Strategist
Penn State University Libraries
Speaker Bio for Linda Ballinger
Linda Ballinger (probably better recognized as @metacat) coordinates metadata creation and management for the Penn State University Libraries' digital collections. She brings an emphasis on inclusive and reparative description to cataloging the Libraries' digital collections. With 30ish years of experience in cataloging print, audiovisual, and digitized resources, she has focused her work on finding practical, user-centered approaches to metadata creation and management, and adapting metadata to local needs.
Talk: AI in Moderation: Assessing AI-Generated Alt Text for Digital Collections
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Head of Digital Access
American Philosophical Society
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Speaker Bio for Sabrina Bocanegra
Sabrina Bocanegra is the Head of Digital Access at the American Philosophical Society as well as the Revolutionary City Project Manager. Before joining the APS she worked on two major collaborative digital projects, In Her Own Right and For the Health of the New Nation. Along with digital access expertise, Sabrina has dabbled in reference, outreach, and education using archival and museum materials and their digital surrogates, giving her a deep appreciation of the broad value of digital collections. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Temple University and her M.S.L.I.S. from Drexel University.
Talk: Integrating Open Repositories and Digital Humanities Technologies to Foster Civic Engagement
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Student Programmer
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Speaker Bio for Aiden de Boer
Aiden de Boer is a Data Science and Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations (QAMO) student at the University of Utah, expected to graduate in 2027. In his role as the Student Programmer for the Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT) at the J. Willard Marriott Library, he spearheads the technical implementation and maintenance of this open-source application. Utilizing Python-based workflows, he develops tools within MaRMAT to help libraries identify and remediate harmful terminology. Beyond his work with MaRMAT, his academic and professional focus lies at the intersection of data-driven decision-making and ethical software development.
Talk: From Beta to RC: The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT)
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Educational and Scholarly Technology Assistant
Bryn Mawr College
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Speaker Bio for Cameron Boucher
I am a digital scholarship developer and educational technologist with an interest in critical web design and minimal computing. I'm currently pursuing an MSLIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign while working in Library and Information Technology Services at Bryn Mawr College. I have a A.B. in Russian and History from Bryn Mawr College and a background in communications and film studies. In my free time, I like to teach myself new crafts, play video games, and crochet sweaters for my dog.
Talk: Using Static IIIF for Digital Scholarship: the Paul Thomas Annotated Project
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Electronic Resources Librarian
SUNY Upstate Medical University
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Speaker Bio for Michelle Bowers
Michelle Bowers is the Electronic Resources Librarian at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her work is a mix of setting up and maintaining resources, troubleshooting access and authentication issues, and managing the library's web presence. Outside of work she can usually be found relaxing with her family, reading a Terry Pratchett book, and/or being held hostage by her clingy orange cat.
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Director of Archives and Special Collections
University of Connecticut
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Speaker Bio for Maureen Cresci Callahan
Maureen Cresci Callahan is the director of archives and special collections at the University of Connecticut. She previously worked as the curator of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History at Smith College and in archival technologies and technical services at Yale University, New York University, and Princeton University. She was co-chair of the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard during the process of revising the principles of archival description from 2014 to 2019 and a member of the leadership group of the National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group from 2021 to 2024. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Bryn Mawr College.
Talk: Spec before Tech: Delivering digital objects using archival principles with DadoCM
Sys admin
Lyrasis
Speaker Bio for Blake Carver
Blake Carver is Senior Systems Administrator at LYRASIS Hosting Services, where he manages the servers and infrastructure that support the hosted ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace and other systems. Blake holds an MLS from SUNY Buffalo, and has worked as an academic librarian, as a programmer at a dot.com startup, and as a records manager. He's also known as the guy behind LISNews, LISWire, and LISHost. Blake was one of the first librarian bloggers (he created LISNews in 1999) and has presented widely at professional conferences, talking about open source systems, Drupal, WordPress, and IT security & privacy for libraries.
Talk: Cybersecurity Preparedness for Libraries: A 2026 Action Plan
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Automation Librarian
Cornell University
Speaker Bio for Whitney Christopher
Whitney Christopher is an Assistant Librarian at Cornell University. Her areas of interest include data privacy and black digital humanities.
Talk: The Redirect: Researching Data Privacy and Vendor Practices in Library Systems
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Special Projects Cataloger
Boston Public Library
Speaker Bio for Jay L. Colbert
Jay L. Colbert is the Special Projects Cataloger at the Boston Public Library. His background spans from metadata and discovery to instruction and music librarianship. Currently, his work focuses on non-AI technological solutions for automation and batch cataloging, while protecting the labor of cataloging staff.
Talk: Unveiling Boston Public Library’s Hidden Collections Using the WorldCat Metadata API
Geospatial software developer
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Speaker Bio for Adam Cox
Adam has worked in the geospatial field since getting hooked in 2011 via archaeology and digital humanities, and primarily with open source software since 2016. He completed a dual MLIS and MS Geography in 2022 at LSU, during which he designed and built a crowdsourcing platform for georeferencing historical maps. He lives in New Orleans.
Talk: Old Maps for New Apps: Making and Using Georeferenced Sanborn Maps at Scale
Workshop: Running a Community Georeferencing Event
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Associate Head, User Experience
NC State University Libraries
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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. She earned her MA in Computational Linguistics from the Graduate Center at CUNY and her MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was a Data Curation for the Humanities Fellow.
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Systems Librarian
PCOM
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Speaker Bio for Katherine "Kate" Deibel
Dr. Kate Deibel (aka metageeky) 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 comics, chili peppers, her cat, platypuses, technology adoption, and changing the world. She briefly left libraries for industry but is happily back working as PCOM Library's systems librarian in Philadelphia.
Talk: New (and Old-Fangled) HTML Elements: What is Accessible Really?
Speaker Bio for Thimios Dimopulos
Workshop: Hands-On with ArchivesSpace: Docker Installation, Customization, and API Integration
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Digital Archivist
The ArQuives
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Speaker Bio for Natasha Fisher
Natasha is the Digital Archivist at The ArQuives. She has a particular interest in digital preservation and web archives. She is also the archivist of the Montreal Roller Derby (MTLRD) Archives, and she advocates for the advancement and awareness of the archival field as a whole through her position as Communications Committee Chair for the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) and a member of the CARL Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG).
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Web Designer
Cleveland Public Library
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Speaker Bio for Tyrone J. Fontaine
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Software Engineer
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Speaker Bio for Corey Halpin
Corey Halpin is a software engineer at the Internet Scout Research Group in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Scout's flagship application, Metavus, is an open source (GPL), turn-key package for creating and managing digital libraries and archives. Prior to joining Scout, Corey earned a PhD in Forestry using simulation models to understand the patterns of biomass development in the forests of northern Wisconsin. He enjoys writing in a nice notebook with a good pen, reading excessive amounts of science fiction, pursuing minimalism in his computing environment, and generally embodying xkcd 1806.
Talk: Doing more with SSH
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Head of Digital Services
DePaul University
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Speaker Bio for Margaret Heller
Margaret is Head of Digital Services at DePaul University Library, in which position she leads a team of librarians and professional staff who administer and maintain library digital and physical technologies. Her role works to align digital services and technology with the needs of library users and staff through leadership, project management, and assessment and planning. Margaret received her MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, and her BA in Classical Languages from the College of Wooster. Margaret spent 2013-2023 as Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to that she worked as Web Services Librarian at Dominican University. She has taught undergraduate courses at Dominican University and in the MA in Digital Humanities program at Loyola University Chicago. Margaret is the author of the 2019 book Community Technology Projects: Making them Work (ALA Editions) as well as numerous library technology related articles and blog posts. She reviews regularly for Library Journal. Margaret served as President of Core, a division of the American Library Association from 2022-2023, and prior to that served on the LITA board. She is active in Ex Libris Group North America and other professional associations.
Talk: Times of Wintering in Library Technology: How Community Can Help Us Through
Speaker Bio for Aurelia Hudak
Talk: A workflow for automating content detection in dissertation PDFs
Speaker Bio for Lee Hunter
Talk: Getting Started in 3D. Sometimes It's OK to Have 200 Bugs in Your Code
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Scholarly Services Librarian
Oklahoma State University
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Speaker Bio for Clarke Iakovakis
I am an Associate Professor, the Scholarly Services Librarian, and head of the Scholarly Services & Research Engagement unit in the Oklahoma State University Libraries. I have a Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Texas State University. I have worked in public and academic libraries since 2008 in a variety of capacities. I serve as the library liaison to History, Political Science, American Indian Studies, and Africana Studies. I am interested in Research Information Management Systems, scholarly publishing, open/public access to scholarship, copyright, research data curation & access, programming pedagogy, library instruction, bibliometric analysis, and many other related topics. I routinely provide workshops on a number of technical tools, including data wrangling & visualization in R, LaTeX and Markdown, Git & GitHub, OpenRefine, REST APIs, SQL, tidy data, regex, and others.
Speaker Bio for Ilya Kreymer
Talk: Replacing Legacy Sites with Low Maintenance Statically Hosted Web Archive-powered Mirrors
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Interim Associate Dean, Library Technology
McGill University Libraries
Speaker Bio for Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange is the Interim Associate Dean for Library Technology at McGill University Libraries. She has also previously worked as a coordinator for Scholarly Communications, with research interests in scholarly publishing and library technology planning.
Talk: Community Digitization as a Strategic Response to Political Change
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Senior Library Application Developer
Lehigh University
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Speaker Bio for Maccabee Levine
Maccabee Levine is a senior developer at Lehigh University Libraries, focusing on open source bibliographic systems. He's a frequent contributor to VuFind and serves on project governance groups for FOLIO, VuFind and ReShare. Maccabee has presented recently at WOLFcon, Charleston, FOLIO Mid-Atlantic, Code4Lib, and the VuFind Summit. His mother still reminds him about an OSS award for a Voyager enhancement he won back in 2010, so now you get to know about it too.
Talk: Supporting the Hidden Work: OSS Projects for Inventory and Weeding
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Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist
Bryn Mawr College
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Speaker Bio for Alice McGrath
Alice McGrath is a technologist and digital humanist who supports digital research and pedagogy at Bryn Mawr College. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include digital collections, humanities data, eighteenth-century women's writing, minimal computing, weird narrative forms, and the charming friendship between her cat and dog.
Talk: Using Static IIIF for Digital Scholarship: the Paul Thomas Annotated Project
Speaker Bio for Matt Miller
Talk: BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering
Speaker Bio for Zeff Morgan
Workshop: Hands-On with ArchivesSpace: Docker Installation, Customization, and API Integration
Librarian
University of Notre Dame
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Speaker Bio for Eric Lease Morgan
Eric Lease Morgan is a librarian working in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame where he provides text mining and natural language processing services to the University community. He does data science with words.
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Software Enginerring Manager
California Digital Library
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Speaker Bio for Chad Nelson
Software Engineer. Photographer. Computational Artist. Mediocre Bassist. Flaneur. Angeleno. Rapscallion.
Talk: Tales from the Online Archives of California Replatforming
Digital Scholarship Programmer
American Philosophical Society
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Speaker Bio for David Ragnar Nelson
David Ragnar Nelson serves as Digital Scholarship Programmer in the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society. His work focuses on integrating digital humanities methods into the library's research agendas and collaborating with external researchers on digital scholarship. A self-taught developer, he holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures. On the technical side, he mainly works on network analysis and visualization, machine learning methods for extracting text and metadata from archival materials (largely Automatic Text Recognition and Automatic Speech Recognition), and web applications using static sites (Jekyll/Hugo) and Django.
Talk: Integrating Open Repositories and Digital Humanities Technologies to Foster Civic Engagement
Business Applications Analyst
Getty Research Institute
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Speaker Bio for Lawrence Olliffe
Lawrence is from the Getty Research Institute, of the J. Paul Getty Trust. His focuses range from hands-on support to metadata standards, with a sprinkling of extensive institutional knowledge as a resource. Locally, he handles the Getty's contributions to the Internet Archive, and more broadly, he contributes to IA's processing of book metadata.
Talk: Do You Fix It, When No One Knows It's Broken? TL;DR: You'll be sorry if you don't!
CEO
Keenious
Speaker Bio for Frode Opdahl
Workshop: Using the OpenAlex API to Explore Metadata for 250M+ Research Publications
Lead Librarian for UX Strategy
NC State University Libraries
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Speaker Bio for Andreas Orphanides
Andreas Orphanides is the Lead Librarian for UX Strategy at the NC State University Libraries. His work focuses on developing high-quality, thoughtfully designed technology solutions to support teaching, learning, and information discovery. His professional interests include systems analysis, human factors, and information design. Outside of work, he has too many cats.
Workshop: Fail4Lib 2026
Speaker Bio for Aaron Pahl
Talk: Decoding the Past: Exploring AI-Based Handwritten Text Recognition in Digital Collections
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Systems Librarian
California College of the Arts
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Speaker Bio for Eric Phetteplace
Eric Phetteplace is a Systems Librarian with over a decade of experience developing, maintaining, and supporting web applications. His responsibilities include not only traditional library systems (ILS, discovery layer, electronic resources, instititutional repository), but teaching and learning technologies as well (LMS, video platform, digital whiteboard). Outside of work, he enjoys reading literary fiction and cuddling with his copious pets.
Talk: On Searching for Library Standards that Align with Library Values
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Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems
Georgia Southern University Libraries
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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. Georgia Southern University Libraries is the largest student printing lab on campus, providing approximately 1,500,000 prints to students each year. The libraries provide in-building desktop computers with specialized software for academic projects, a fleet of approximately 190 checkout laptops for students, and 3D printing and scanning services.
Talk: Artificial Intelligence Ethics Regulation in the United States
Speaker Bio for Bethann Rea
Talk: AI in Moderation: Assessing AI-Generated Alt Text for Digital Collections
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Lead Software Developer/Analyst
The University of Texas at Austin Libraries
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Speaker Bio for Kyle Reiley
Based in San Francisco, Kyle Reiley works remotely for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries and outside of work spends a lot of his time playing volleyball. He is a lead software developer and analyst and works across the stack, untangling complex legacy systems, and turning them into modular, maintainable platforms. He believes systems should be easy to expand and improve, and that software design should focus foremost on the user experience of the product.
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Librarian
Queens College, City University of New York
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Speaker Bio for Eric Silberberg
As the Instructional Design and Education Librarian, I lead the Queens College Library in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of our library instruction program. Additionally, as the subject librarian for education, I support students and faculty in the Queens College School of Education through collection development, research support, and external partnerships designed to advance scholarship for the public good. My current research explores open access publishing in educational research and library services for teacher training programs in Mexico and the United States. Committed to promoting equitable access to information, I also serve on the LACLI executive team. My previous academic work at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla focused on regional music and the educational profiles of US-born young people in Puebla, Mexico. I started my career as a Special Education teacher in Brooklyn, NY.
Talk: Spreadsheet to Service: Building a Zero-Cost Search Interface (The LACLI Story)
Speaker Bio for Nailisa Tanner
Talk: Community Digitization as a Strategic Response to Political Change
(she/her)
Cataloging Systems & Linked Data Strategist
Penn State
Speaker Bio for Ruth Tillman
just trying to make things work
Talk: AI in Moderation: Assessing AI-Generated Alt Text for Digital Collections
Speaker Bio for Melanie Walsh
Talk: BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering
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University Archivist
University at Albany, SUNY
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Speaker Bio for Gregory Wiedeman
Gregory Wiedeman is the university archivist at the University at Albany, SUNY where he oversees collecting, processing, and reference for the University Archives and supports born-digital collecting, and systems implementation for the department’s outside collecting areas. He is the PI of the IMLS-funded ArcLight Integration Project which fostered Delivering Archives and Digital Objects: a Conceptual Model (DadoCM) and aims to integrate digital materials into archives access systems.
Talk: Spec before Tech: Delivering digital objects using archival principles with DadoCM
Speaker Bio for Mike Williams
Talk: Unveiling Boston Public Library’s Hidden Collections Using the WorldCat Metadata API
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Interim Head of Digital Library Services, Metadata Strategies Librarian
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Speaker Bio for Rachel Jane Wittmann
Rachel Jane Wittmann is the Metadata Strategies Librarian at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. In her role at the University of Utah, she oversees the metadata creation and remediation for the Marriott Digital Library and the digital exhibits program. Rachel is a co-creator of the Marriott Reparative Metadata Tool (MaRMAT) https://www.marmatproject.org/. MaRMAT is an open-source application designed to assess metadata for potentially harmful terms and phrases, changed and problematic Library of Congress Subject Headings, and identify sensitive content by using various pre-curated or custom lexicons. In the last decade, Rachel has been involved in multiple Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Groups, including the Metadata Assessment Interest Group and most recently the Cultural Assessment Interest Group, co-chairing the publication of the Inclusive Metadata Toolkit in 2024. Rachel received her MLIS from Pratt Institute’s School of Information in New York City.
Talk: From Beta to RC: The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT)
Speaker Bio for Rachel Woodbrook
Talk: A workflow for automating content detection in dissertation PDFs
Speaker Bio for Brian Zelip
Workshop: Hands-On with ArchivesSpace: Docker Installation, Customization, and API Integration