I am currently a metadata librarian in the Cataloging & Metadata Services department of the University of Alabama Libraries. My work includes metadata planning, creation, maintenance, and migration, but my interests extend to all aspects of digital collection management. I’m particularly interested in digital object and metadata reuse, linked data and semantic web technologies, digital humanities, institutional repositories, and intellectual property issues.

The blog you see here is from my student days at the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science. As an IMLS graduate fellow in digital libraries, I worked on a number of digital projects with the University of Iowa Libraries Digital Library Services and tracked my progress here. I haven’t kept it up much since leaving school, but the archivist in me won’t take it down. I may have something to say there in the future, but lately the 140-character update suits me just fine. I’m saverkamp on Twitter, and if you want to contact me, I’m at shawnaverkamp (at) gmail (dot) com.