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Education

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
MLIS, Library & Information Science, December 2008

Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
BA, Music, May 1998

Professional Experience

DIGITAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES, Iowa City, IA
Data Services Librarian, January 2012 – present

CATALOGING & METADATA SERVICES, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LIBRARIES, Tuscaloosa, AL
Metadata Librarian, July 2009 – January 2012

DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES, Iowa City, IA
Digital Projects Librarian (half-time, temporary), January 2009 – June 2009
Graduate Fellow, August 2007 – December 2008

IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA
Processor (volunteer, part-time), April 2009 – June 2009

Proficiencies

Metadata standards:  Proficiency in creating and crosswalking metadata using a number of descriptive standards including MODS, Dublin Core, MARC, EAD, and others.  Experience applying content standards such as AACR2 and DACS and controlled vocabularies/thesauri, including LCSH, LCTGM, LCNAF, AAT, TGN, and others.  Familiarity with the FRBR principles and RDA. Experience developing preservation and technical metadata strategies using PREMIS, MIX, and other standards.  Familiarity with semantic web technologies, linked data principles, structural metadata standards, and exchange protocols, including RDF, OAI-ORE, METS, OAI-PMH and others.

XML and data exchange formats:  Experience creating, editing, parsing, and manipulating XML documents using a variety of tools including XML editors such as Oxygen and XMLSpy, scripting languages Python and Powershell, and XML languages XSLT, XPath, and XQuery.  Experience applying Schematron quality control mechanisms to XML creation workflows.  Substantial training in TEI text encoding.  Knowledge of MARC21 formats and experience crosswalking data between MARC21 and XML data formats using MarcEdit, XSLT, and other tools.  Familiarity with JSON.

Programming:  Experience scripting automation and data manipulation tasks with Powershell, VBA, and Python.  Basic familiarity with command line interfaces, SSH, and version control software.  Reading knowledge of Perl, PHP, and others.  Familiarity with query languages SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL.

Digital asset management systems:  Experience with CONTENTdm, Archivists’ Toolkit, bepress.  Familiarity with DSpace and Fedora architectures.  Experience installing and administering LAMP-based content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal.

Web: Experience creating, editing, and maintaining web pages and sites with HTML, CSS, and web publishing platforms WordPress, Drupal, and Omeka. Familiarity with HTML5 and Javascript.

Media:  Knowledge of image and audio digitization best practices. Experience editing digital assets in Photoshop, Audacity, and Adobe Acrobat.

Professional Development

Presenter and Attendee, Library and Information Technology Association Forum (LITA), September 30-October 2, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri
Participant, The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) Center for History and New Media, June 3-5, 2011, Fairfax, Virginia
Participant, The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) Southeast, March 4-6, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia
Attendee, International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, October 20-22, 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Participant, METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond, June 29 – July 2, 2010, Washington D.C.
Attendee, ALA Annual Conference, June 25-28, 2010, Washington D.C.
Presenter and Attendee, International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), June 16-18, 2010, Austin, Texas
Attendee, Code4Lib, February 22-25, 2010, Asheville, North Carolina
Attendee, International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres), October, 5-6, 2009, San Francisco, California
Attendee, International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB), June 25-27, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
Attendee, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), May 26-30, 2008, Victoria, British Columbia
DHSI Workshop participant, “Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML”
Participant, Introduction to TEI Workshop, February 22-24, 2008, Champaign, Illinois
Attendee, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, October 12-22, 2007, Chicago, Illinois

Publications

“Chronicling African American Women at the University of Iowa.” Microform and Imaging Review 38.4 (2009): 157-162.

“Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting into an Institutional Repository.” (with Joanna Lee) Code4Lib 7 (2009): n. pag. Web. 26 Jun. 2009.

Presentations

“Building a Habitat for the Digital Humanities: Adding Digital Project Support to Library Services.” (with Tom Wilson and Jason Battles) LITA National Forum, St. Louis, MO, October 2011.

“Three Wheels on My Wagon But I’m Still Rolling Along: Lessons Learned from the Recent Campus Deployment of ETDs at The University of Alabama.” (with John Chambers) ETD 2010, Austin, TX, June 2010.