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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

  • • Supports effective and responsible data stewardship across campus through campus-wide needs assessment initiatives and development of data management services.
  • • Participates in the development of user interfaces, mobile applications, and digital library infrastructure.
  • • Transforms descriptive metadata for online use and reuse.
  • • Consults with faculty and students on data management issues.

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

  • • Collaborated with stakeholders across the Libraries to support long-term digital access to UA’s cultural heritage materials and graduate research.
  • • Led development of data dictionaries and documented best practice guidelines for local MODS descriptive metadata profile.
  • • Designed and implemented efficient workflows for creating, validating, remediating, and migrating metadata for digital text, still image, and audio objects.
  • • Developed local specifications for metadata display, publishing through OAI-PMH, and indexing.
  • • Liaised with the Graduate School to coordinate electronic theses and dissertation processing and to manage embargoed content.
  • • Crosswalked metadata between schemas using XML/XSLT technologies.
  • • Researched and recommended strategies for capturing and storing technical, preservation, and rights metadata.
  • • Consulted with the Office of Library Technology on the development of metadata creation/editing software, digital repository interface design, and discovery interface interoperability.
  • • Offered guidance on faculty digital humanities projects through consultations and workshops.
  • • Served on the Libraries E-Science Team, an initiative to assess campus research data needs and plan development of data management services.

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

  • • Collaboratively developed policies, workflows, and faculty outreach strategies for the University’s new institutional repository (IR).
  • • Worked with faculty editors to migrate print and online journals to Iowa Research Online and trained them on the bepress EdiKit online journal management software.
  • • Communicated with the IR platform vendor (bepress) to customize repository structure and user interfaces.
  • • Crosswalked metadata from a variety of XML formats to the IR vendor schema using XML/XSLT technologies.

Graduate Fellow (half-time), August 2007 – December 2008

Presidential Campaign Videos Collection, June 2008 – November 2008
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/pcv

  • • Collaborated with Political Science faculty to create an audience-appropriate metadata schema and controlled vocabularies.
  • • Harvested, normalized, and enhanced video metadata from YouTube for inclusion in Iowa Digital Library (IDL).

Traveling Culture Collection Migration, January 2008 – August 2008
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/tc

  • • Migrated 7500 compound image objects from library server to IDL using CONTENTdm content management system.
  • • Crosswalked metadata from LC American Memory MARC-style format to IDL schema and Qualified Dublin Core.
  • • Remediated and enhanced metadata for 7500 digital objects in MS Excel.

African American Women Students at the University of Iowa Collection, August 2007-January 2008
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/aaws

  • • Researched and selected primary and secondary source materials for inclusion in thematic digital collection.
  • • Digitized, edited, and created metadata for ~100 heterogenous image, print, and audio resources for display in Iowa Digital Library.
  • • Designed a web interface to showcase the digital collection.

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

  • • Processed collection additions and updated finding aids.

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, Javascript, 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.

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

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.