Keynotes
Dre is the Associate Head of User Experience at NCSU. He is also a long time participating Code4Lib community member. He is one of the co-founders of the beloved Code4Lib workshop, Fail4Lib, which created an inclusive and safe space to talk about project failures and generate constructive conversation around the failures. He's given brilliant and thoughtful talks on user experience and system design.
Christina works with metadata at Cornell University Library. She thinks her area of work could be called ‘data operations’, but maybe she just made that up. She likes collaborating with folks on library tech- and data-focused work and events.
Speakers
Sara works at Artefactual on both the AtoM and Archivematica projects, providing requirements analysis, user documentation, QA testing, project governance, and community support. Prior to Artefactual she worked in academic libraries as an archivist and/or a librarian, tackling wide-ranging subjects like data migration, Islandora implementation, digitization management, and library communications.
Talk: Archivematica
As lead of the software development team within the Digital Library Program at the UCLA Library, he is very interested in education, learning and training related technology. He is also addicted to coffee, sunshine and foolishly hoping the Buffalo Bills make the playoffs.
Workshop: Digital Projects Basic Technical Skills Bootcamp
Steven Carl Anderson is a Digital Repository Developer at the Boston Public Library working on Digital Commonwealth (the DPLA service hub for Massachusetts) and is an active member of the Hydra community. Additionally, he has done freelance development to help the College of the Holy Cross create the Digital Transgender Archive. He previously has worked for Emory University and for ETV (Educational TV). Outside of work, his interests include indie game programming, anime, tennis, and going on fun adventures.
Workshop: Modeling Concepts in Linked Data RDF
Hillel leads the Rockefeller Archive Center’s Digital Team, whose mission is to facilitate broad and equitable access to and responsible preservation of materials in the RAC’s custody by providing technical leadership and expertise to staff in all program areas. He likes to talk about folk music, maintenance and user-centered processes.
Talk: Maintaining a Kick A** Tech Team and Organization
Elvia is the Processing Archivist for Latin American Collections at Princeton University. She holds a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in Art History from UCLA. Her professional interests are digital archives, digital preservation, and inclusive community building.
Talk: Moving Beyond the Lone Digital Archivist Model Through Collaboration and Living Documentation
Kevin Beswick is a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at North Carolina State University where he works in the Digital Library Initiatives department on supporting search/discovery tools as well as projects around digital repositories & digital preservation. He is the technical lead for QuickSearch, an open-source federated search application with bento-box style results, as well as VirtualBrowse, a touchscreen-based collection browsing application. Previously he was an NCSU Libraries Fellow.
Talk: Fostering a Departmental Culture of Peer Mentorship in Software Development
Workshop: Data Analysis with Python: An introduction to Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks
Callan Bignoli is the assistant director and technology manager for the three busy public libraries in Brookline, Massachusetts. She explores the crossroads of digital and physical library user experience and works to provide library staff with the tools and training they need to stay nimble and well-equipped.
Talk: Womenintech Beyond Salary Negotiation Process How To Not Lose Your Head
Kelly Bolding has been processing archival collections for Princeton University Library’s Manuscripts Division for three years, prior to which she learned the ropes during a year-long stint at the New York Public Library. She increasingly works with born-digital materials in contemporary personal papers collections and has been involved in a team effort to establish a digital archives workstation at Princeton’s Firestone Library. She received a BA in English Literature from Reed College in 2011 and recently completed her MLIS at Rutgers in May 2016, where she focused her studies on the intersection of literary archives and born-digital collections.
Talk: Moving Beyond the Lone Digital Archivist Model Through Collaboration and Living Documentation
Craig Boman
Applications Support Specialist and Interim Digital Projects Coordinator
University of Dayton Libraries
Craig Boman is the Applications Support Specialist and Interim Digital Projects Coordinator at the University of Dayton Libraries. Craig is a guitarist, bagpiper, introvert and Ph.D student in Higher Ed leadership. He has helped build websites for UD's ILS, among other systems. https://craigboman.github.io
Workshop: Developing Library Applications in Google Sheets with Google Apps Script
Dominique Bortruex is the Metadata Librarian at the University of South Florida. She earned her MLIS at Kent State University where she also teaches as a virtual instructor. She also teaches a variety of online MLIS courses at Dominican University that prepare students for technical careers in libraries.
Talk: Destroying Impostor Phenomenon in Code4Lib and Ourselves
Terry Brady is an Applications Programmer Analyst working for the Georgetown University Library from Seattle. Terry is a committer for the DSpace repository platform. Terry has built applications for higher education, government, non-profit, and corporate institutions including LexisNexis and the National Archives and Records Administration. https://github.com/terrywbrady/info
Workshop: Developing Library Applications in Google Sheets with Google Apps Script
Blake Carver is Systems Administrator at LYRASIS Digital Technology Services, where he manages the servers and infrastructure that support their hosted ArchivesSpace, Isandora and CollectionSpace. 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 is a member of Library Journal’s first “Movers & Shakers” cohort. Blake has presented widely at professional conferences, talking about open source systems, Drupal, WordPress, and IT security for libraries.
Talk: Making Your Library IT Defensible: 5 Easy Things To Prevent 85% of All Targeted Cyber Intrusions
Betsy has been at the Caltech Library for 20 years and has worked with Islandora for the last four years. She specializes in data- and metadata-wrangling and is passionate about open access to resources.
Workshop: Islandora in the Wild: Training and Resources from Pilot and Production Repository Projects
Workshop: Introduction to Text mining
Karen is a librarian and geek coder with an interest in mashups, web services, and Linked Data. She currently works as a Senior Product Analyst for the WorldShare Platform. Prior to joining OCLC, she worked in academic library information technology for 10 years. Karen writes, teaches and presents on a broad range of topics including web services & APIs, application development, Linked Data and open source software in libraries.
Talk: Changing the Conversation: How language influences the software creation process
Workshop: Five Tips for Developers Creating Applications using APIs
I am a software developer at the Brown University Library. I work primary on our Discovery product and our Researchers at Brown web site. When I am not writing code for work I am probably writing code as a hobby, reading about software, or thinking how to deliver better systems.
Talk: Build your own software, yes, build it
Esmé Cowles is a developer at Princeton University Library, and a committer for the Hydra and Fedora projects. He was previously at UC San Diego, working on the UCSD DAMS repository. He has focused on metadata interoperability in particular, including work on the Portland Common Data Model and VRA Core 4.
Alicia has more than a decade of experience in the software industry, including systems administration, testing, marketing, project management, documentation, and database administration. She holds a BA from Columbia College in New York and a PhD. in European History from the University of Chicago. In the short midwestern summers, Alicia enjoys competing in dressage with her Percheron/Quarter Horse cross, Shade. She has served as President of the Central States Dressage and Eventing Association and sits on the board of the Downtown Minneapolis Transportation Management Organization (TMO).
Workshop: Getting Started with Ansible and Serverspec (Breakout Session)
Kate is a geeky scholar of many things: disciplinarity, technology adoption, comics, and disability. As a web applications specialist at the UW Libraries, she works to ensure that technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff.
Talk: The Most Accessible Catalog Results Page Ever
Workshop: Web Accessibility: Becoming a Stronger Advocate
Jenn Dandle is the Web Manager at the UC San Diego Library. She has over eleven years higher education and government experience in web development and management, and has done extensive research and advising in web accessibility. Her other professional interests include information architecture, user experience, and teaching technology concepts to non-technical users. Jenn earned her B.S. in Information Studies at Florida State University and went on to earn a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from the University of West Florida and a M.M. of Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California.
Workshop: Web Accessibility: Becoming a Stronger Advocate
Eben English is a developer and librarian who has worked in a variety of settings, from independent publishing to libraries of all shapes and size. He holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His current work focuses on building online collections of digitized primary source materials using open-source software.
Workshop: Modeling Concepts in Linked Data RDF
Hannah has been involved in digital library work at Stanford for 15 years. She currently leads the team responsible for specifying, managing, and delivering digital library services including digitization, project management, media preservation, born-digital archiving, web archiving, and repository-based preservation and publishing services. And Hannah is the Product Manager for the Hydra-in-a-Box project.
Talk: Unwrapping Hydra-in-a-Box
Angela Fullington is Web Services Management Librarian at the NCSU Libraries. She leads the Libraries in web-based information architecture, content strategy and project management.
Talk: Information Architecture: what is it and where does it fit?
Patrick got his Master's in Science of Information from the University of Michigan in 2013, and began working at the Rockefeller Archive Center in September of the same year. He is the RAC's ArchivesSpace guru, data diver, and self-proclaimed gif archivist. Recently he's been excited about opportunities to contribute to open source communities and empowering RAC staff members to get the most out of their archival systems.
Talk: Maintaining a Kick A** Tech Team and Organization
Amy was born and raised in Binghamton, New York. She received her B.S. in English from SUNY Oneonta (2008), M.A.T. in English Language Arts (ELA) Education from SUNY Cortland (2012), and a M.S. in Library & Information Science from Syracuse University (2016). She is currently part of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) one-year fellowship program and is working on a pilot project at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration creating a science data catalog for the Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH). When Amy is not working, she spends her free time reading / writing dystopian fiction, binge watching shows with her dog, cooking, and learning something new every day.
Talk: How To Create A Micro-Volunteering Project
Talk: From crowdsourcing to standardization: bridging the gap to open data
Joshua leads the software development team at the GRI. His team is responsible for building user interfaces for searching and navigating the large collections housed within the GRI as well building systems to track and automate daily operations of the library, archives, and digital services.
Workshop: Natural Language Processing with Python: Getting Started
Bonnie is an Assistant Digital Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center, where she supports accessioning, processing, and collection development archivists in their work with born digital records and digital preservation. She received her Master’s in Archives and Public History from New York University.
Talk: Maintaining a Kick A** Tech Team and Organization
Cary Gordon is the President of the Cherry Hill Company, a Los Angeles based software development and systems integration shop specializing in employing web-based technologies to solve library problems. Cary holds a Masters Degree in Library Science and is an Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect. After 15 years of operating a data center in Los Angeles, Cherry Hill moved all of its online services to AWS in May, 2011.
Workshop: AWS Services Overview
Ekatarina Grguric is a Fellow at NCSU Libraries working in user experience on the web team and in digital library initiatives on an initiative to explore and support open science.
Talk: Information Architecture: what is it and where does it fit?
Workshop: Let's Paper Prototype! Low-Cost Structured Brainstorming Individually and in Teams
Thomas Guignard
Director of Services & Volunteer instructor
Ontario College Library Service (OCLS) & Software Carpentry and Library Carpentry
Thomas Guignard works at an academic library consortium, dabbles in code for work and fun, and teaches computer programming basics to researchers and librarians as a volunteer instructor for various non-profit initiatives. He foolishly believes technology should adapt to humans, and not the other way around.
Workshop: Getting your hands dirty with Web Scraping
Jim Hahn
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian and Associate Professor
University of Illinois Undergraduate Library
Jim Hahn is Orientation Services and Environments Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Undergraduate Library. His research into technology-enhanced learning investigates the development of mobile software applications (https://minrvaproject.org/) within library settings and provides unique insights into new students’ expectations and needs. He founded and writes technical grants in support of the Technology Prototyping Service ( https://sif.library.illinois.edu ) at the University of Illinois.
Workshop: Engineering Virtual Reality Experiences in Library Settings
Corey Harper spent nearly 15 years building digital libraries, administering library systems, and managing library metadata. He has since moved on to technology research in natural language processing, machine learning, predictive analytics, and data visualization with applications toward issues around research communications. He works in Elsevier Labs, the research and development arm of Elsevier.
Talk: An NLP Primer for Library Technologists
Robert Haschart started his career working in OCLC's Office of Research as a grad student many years ago. He moved on to other places and other fields, but returned to the library world at the University of Virginia, initially as a developer of Fedora, and subsequently working with Solr and Blacklight to create a replacement for the search interface of our University's ILS. As a major part of that work he developed the program SolrMarc which reads MARC records and extracts information to build a Solr Index.
Talk: SolrMarc: the Next Generation
Margaret manages the institutional repository, develops the library website in Drupal, improves the Primo discovery layer, and is implementing a digital preservation program. In her spare time she researches social justice in repositories, community-based libraries and projects, and issues for working parents in technical positions. She is active in ALA and LITA, and has been kicking around Code4Lib since 2010. This is her 6th annual Code4Lib conference.
Talk: We All Live in a Community Submarine
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale
Data Services Coordinator and Research Transparency Librarian
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries
Cynthia R. Hudson-Vitale is the Data Services Coordinator and Research Transparency Librarian in Data & GIS Services at Washington University in St. Louis (WU) Libraries. In this position, Cynthia leads research data services and digital curation efforts for the Libraries. Since coming into this role in 2012, she has worked on faculty projects to facilitate digital asset sharing and interoperability while meeting faculty research needs throughout the research lifecycle. She has also worked across the University to improve research reproducibility, addressing both technical and cultural barriers. She currently serves as the Visiting Program Officer for SHARE with the Association of Research Libraries. Cynthia holds a MALIS from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a BA from St. Louis University.
I've been the DevOps engineer for DLTS since 2014. I have a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Visual Art and I'm interested in systems automation and questions of time and contemporaneity.
Workshop: AWS Services Overview
Jada Jones is an analyst at the United States Food and Drug Administration. In this role, Jada strives to ensure that all scientific research and data is disseminated and made available and easily accessible to the public. Although she works in a very nontraditional librarian role, she maintains the librarian principles of access and service throughout her work. A big believer in diversity and inclusion, Jada supports programs and initiatives that promote these core beliefs. She has published several articles focused on diversity in libraries. Jada is a qualified librarian and holds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In her spare time, she loves to read historical fiction, study languages, and visit small town museums.
Talk: How To Create A Micro-Volunteering Project
Talk: From crowdsourcing to standardization: bridging the gap to open data
Tommy Keswick is the Digital Technologies Development Librarian at Caltech. In this capacity he works on bringing open source solutions to the library’s challenges. Tommy is active in both the Drupal and Islandora communities and holds an MLIS from UCLA.
Workshop: Islandora in the Wild: Training and Resources from Pilot and Production Repository Projects
Nushrat is currently working in the Digital Library Initiatives department and on Linked Data initiative at the NCSU Libraries. She specialized in Socio-technical Data Analytics for her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of interest include data analytics, natural language processing and digital humanities. Python and R are her favorite languages when it comes to working with data.
Talk: Fostering a Departmental Culture of Peer Mentorship in Software Development
Workshop: Data Analysis with Python: An introduction to Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks
Andy works for UCLA Library Digital Initiatives and Information Technology (DIIT), supporting the Voyager ILS and various other systems built around it. He tries to solve more problems than he causes, and succeeds less often than he'd like.
Talk: Boxing the Hydra: Defending against Denial of Service attacks
Aaron Krebeck is the Digital Services Librarian for the Washington Research Library Consortium. He has a Masters of Library and Information Science from Drexel University with an emphasis in Digital Libraries. The Washington Research Library Consortium was established as a non-profit corporation in 1987 to support and enhance the library and information services of universities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Workshop: Islandora in the Wild: Training and Resources from Pilot and Production Repository Projects
Nathan is a member of the software development team at the GRI. He is responsible for building software systems that support the development and use of the library's collections.
Talk: Natural Language Processing: Parsing Through The Hype
Workshop: Natural Language Processing with Python: Getting Started
Katherine Lynch is a Senior Application Developer for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. She has worked as a developer in Libraries for nearly ten years, developing and supporting Open Source software applications for libraries and long term preservation. She earned an MLIS degree with a concentration in Digital Libraries from Drexel University in 2012. Drawing on her years of research and web accessibility-focused software development, she has taught extensively on accessibility, aiming to put the tools for building, validating, and sustaining accessible software in the hands of developers and advocates. Much of her research focuses on the human aspects of web accessibility, concentrating on crafting real-world user experiences that are accessible without reducing rich aspects of content and presentation that can be made accessible for all.
Talk: Intentionally Horrible Markup: Strategies for Testing and Enhancing Web Accessibility on a Larger Scale
Monica Maceli is an assistant professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, focusing on emerging technologies in the information and library science domain. She earned her Ph.D. and MSIS from the College of Information Science and Technology (iSchool) at Drexel University. She has an industry background in web development and user experience, having held positions in e-commerce, online learning, and academic libraries.
Talk: Protecting Me How? Understanding the Function of Privacy-Protection Technology Tools
Mark A. Matienzo is the Collaboration & Interoperability Architect at the Stanford University Libraries, Prior to joining Stanford, Matienzo worked as an archivist and technologist specializing in born-digital materials and metadata management, at institutions including the Digital Public Library of America, Yale University Library, The New York Public Library, and the American Institute of Physics. Matienzo received a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster, and was the first awardee (2012) of the Emerging Leader Award of the Society of American Archivists.
Workshop: Data Modeling 201: Building Models and Profiles with PCDM
Workshop: Data Modeling 101: Getting Started
An information scientist, software developer, librarian, and data wrangler. I have been writing software for over 30 years and have worked in many different kinds of libraries - public, newspaper, academic, and cultural heritage institutions.
Talk: ArchivesSpace – its future direction and growth of the community
Kelley McGrath
Ostriches, minotaurs, ghosts and fossils in the brave new metadata world
University of Oregon
Kelley McGrath is Metadata Management Librarian at the University of Oregon. She is an experienced media cataloger and an active member of Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC). She was a member of the Code4Lib Journal editorial committee for six years. She is particularly interested in ways to make library metadata more useful for humans and machines and ways to design discovery interfaces to make better use of library metadata.
Talk: Ostriches, minotaurs, ghosts and fossils in the brave new metadata world
Peter's current activities include building relationships among libraries, organizations, and service providers participating in the FOLIO open source library service platform project.
Workshop: FOLIO for Developers: Getting your own FOLIO instance running
Workshop: FOLIO Hack-a-thon
Jeremy Nelson is Colorado College's Metadata and Systems Librarian and he is the CTO of Knowledgelinks.io. His open-source tools are used by Colorado College and other libraries. He is the author of two books: Becoming a Lean Library and Mastering Redis.
Workshop: Building Bibliographic RDF Applications and Micro-services
Megan Potterbusch is a National Digital Stewardship Resident working for one year with the George Washington University Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Center for Open Science. She will be working with researchers to incorporate the Open Science Framework (OSF) into their work and scientific collaborations. Previously, she worked on special projects at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Wolbach Library, which included an internship at CERN working for the Zenodo digital repository. Megan holds a MLIS from Simmons College and a BA from Earlham College.
Workshop: Curation, Collaboration, and Coding—The Secret Sauce for Scholarship Support
Hardy is a DSpace Commiter, since 2011, and works for UCLA Library as a Digital Library developer. He's currently working with his colleagues to deploy multiple instances of DSpace to support UCLA Library in various projects. He holds a BA in English, from Fontbonne in Saint Louis. He worked on the school paper, and leveraged that experience into a few jobs at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Chicago. During that period, he ended up doing quite a bit of developing/publishing work, mainly on web sites, and narrowly missed the tail end of the dot-com bubble. He then moved back to Missouri to be closer to family. He's been working in the Library space ever since, including 16 years as the technical lead for MOspace, the institutional repository of the University of Missouri.
Workshop: Getting Started with Ansible and Serverspec (Breakout Session)
Jack works on increasing access to geospatial data at Stanford University Libraries. A contributor to open-source software, Jack is active in the GIS, library, and open-data communities. He also serves on the executive committee of The International Association for Geoscience Diversity
Workshop: Getting started with IIIF
Workshop: Customizing Blacklight: Approaches and Best Practices
Benjamin Ryckman
Lead Developer for the Technology Prototyping Service Group
University of Illinois Undergraduate Library
Benjamin Ryckman is Lead Developer for the Technology Prototyping Service group at the University of Illinois Undergraduate Library. He graduated with a BBA from Eastern Illinois University, and is self-taught in the Java programming language. Ben continues development and upkeep of the Minrva App, regularly programs new APIs to provide data for upcoming Minrva modules or other U of I applications, and helps coordinate and manage software developers.
Workshop: Engineering Virtual Reality Experiences in Library Settings
Bess Sadler has been developing software for libraries and digital repositories for almost fifteen years. She was one of the co-founders of the Blacklight and Hydra projects, and believes that open source can change the world, but only if it is inclusive and participatory.
Workshop: Resisting Impostor Syndrome
Workshop: Ally Skills Workshop
Stephen Schor is a Software Developer for NYPL. He automates creating digital surrogates of its materials. He's also helped organize the Gotham Ruby Conference for 7 years. His favorite palindrome is "Go Hang A Salami I'm a Lasagna Hog."
Talk: Automating Audio & Moving Image Access Copy Creation with Elastic Transcoder, in Seussian Rhyme
Workshop: Fedora Import/Export
A former Technology Director and Library Director now working as an independent consultant in. Trained as an archivist and special collections librarian. Likes to see data used in interesting ways.
Talk: You’ll probably like this one, too: Using circulation data to automate recommendations in a special collections library
Angela Fullington is Web Services Management Librarian at the NCSU Libraries. She leads the Libraries in web-based information architecture, content strategy and project management.
Workshop: FOLIO for Developers: Getting your own FOLIO instance running
Workshop: FOLIO Hack-a-thon
Todd Stoffer is a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at NCSU Libraries working to provide technical leadership and hands on programming for a portfolio of digital library projects in the Digital Library Initiatives department. Prior to this he was an NCSU Libraries Fellow with an initiative focused on web archiving in the Special Collections Research Center. Todd received his Master of Library Science at University of Maryland.
Talk: Going off the Rails on a Jekyll Train - Creative Uses of Static Site Generators
Steve is a Digital Repository Librarian at Oregon State University and is responsible for shepherding repository projects, thinking about what to do with research data, and having opinions about things.
Workshop: Data Modeling 201: Building Models and Profiles with PCDM
Workshop: Data Modeling 101: Getting Started
Claire is a technical project manager at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration where she develops creative solutions to complex business and IT challenges. By focusing on user-centered design, Claire applies her library science background on a regular basis to develop usable products that promote the public good. Currently, she manages an interagency software pilot for a federal expert network and provides product management services for a range of digital initiatives. When not at work, Claire loves to hike and camp around the Maryland area.
Talk: How To Create A Micro-Volunteering Project
Talk: From crowdsourcing to standardization: bridging the gap to open data
Zach Vowell
Digital Archivist
Kennedy Library Special Collections & Archives, California Polytechnic State University
Anthony is a Systems Administrator at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in managing large research compute clusters and implementing high-availability environments. He is particularly interested in finding ways to save time and is diving deep into the world of AWS.
Workshop: Getting Started with Ansible and Serverspec (Breakout Session)
Web Systems Engineer & Librarian. Pianist. Colored jeans enthusiast. Lefty. Evertonian. Drives a MINI named Sebastian. My friends think I'm rad.
Talk: Womenintech Beyond Salary Negotiation Process How To Not Lose Your Head
Workshop: Getting started with IIIF
Scott Ziegler is a librarian/archivist/technology manager who spends his time thinking up new ways to promote the collections at his library. He does tolerably well, and has a good time.
Talk: You’ll probably like this one, too: Using circulation data to automate recommendations in a special collections library
Matt has been leading open source projects for libraries and archives since 2007. He was the tech lead on the Hydra Project for its first three years and continues as an advisor in that community. He now works for Protocol Labs and the IPFS project, coordinating efforts to decentralize the web. This is his seventh time attending Code4Lib.