Metadata & Knowledge Management
Building systems that make information findable.
Taxonomy design, digital asset management, metadata quality, and information architecture.
Portfolio pieces demonstrating cataloging, metadata transformation, and technical skills.
10-15 MARC records across formats (monograph, serial, AV, digital object, French-language item). Each record annotated with decision rationale: subject heading choices, content/media/carrier combinations, judgment vs. rule-following.
5 WorldCat records pulled, evaluated, edited to spec. Annotations showing what changed and why. Demonstrates production workflow and judgment.
LC bulk MARC records cleaned in MarcEdit. Before/after documentation with methodology. Demonstrates speed and QC instinct.
One object described in MARC, Dublin Core, and MODS with explicit field mapping and notes on semantic loss. Demonstrates interoperability thinking.
RDF triple statements for digital collection using LCNA/LCSH authorities. Subject heading inconsistencies across contributing institutions surfaced as metadata quality assessment.
Practical tool solving a specific library pain point. GitHub repo with README.
Metadata, taxonomy, DAM, knowledge management.
Available for remote contract work.
Dominican University · In Progress · Expected December 2027
Metadata, digital curation, and knowledge organization.
University of New Orleans · 2019
Formal logic, ontology, database systems. Senior thesis with oral defense.
Philosophy degree, which mostly means I'm trained to take things apart and figure out why they work (or why they don't). Ontology is ontology whether you're reading Aristotle or writing Dublin Core.
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