Posters

Karen Coyle is a librarian specializing in metadata standards. She has served on standards efforts including the MARC standards group (MARBI), NISO committee AX for the OpenURL standard, W3C's SHACL specification, and was an ALA representative to the e-book standards development that led to the ePub standard. She is currently investigating the possibilities offered by the semantic web and linked data technology, working with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Karen's publications are available on her web site, https://kcoyle.net.

I graduated with a BA in History from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2022. I also graduated with an MS in Library and Information Science as well as an MA in History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2024.

I served as the Metadata Services Graduate Assistant for the University of Illinois Library for two years. I loved this role and it is what led me to pursue a career as a metadata librarian.

I am currently the Metadata Librarian at A.T. Still University and in my first semester as a PhD student at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Sang-oh Na is currently the Integrated Ph.D. student in the Department of Library and Information Science at Kyungpook National University. His research interests encompass various aspects of library cataloging, with a particular focus on metadata and linked data.

Jack O'Malley is the Metadata Lead at the Frick Art Reference Library, where his primary responsibility is to describe and enrich access to digital resources. Jack is a member of the ARK Alliance Outreach Committee, a global community for promoting and sustaining open-source persistent identifiers, and has previously served on committees at the Metropolitan Library Council, the Society of American Archivists, and the Pratt School of Information. Prior to his employment at the Frick, Jack was a fellow at the New York Public Library and the Pratt Institute Archives.

Marina Morgan is Head of Technical Services and Senior Metadata Librarian at Roux Library, Florida Southern College. In her role, she supervises the Technical Services operations, develops procedures for processing all library materials, serves as the ILS and ProQuest ETD administrator, manages the Institutional Repository, and co-manages the Digital Collections.

Before coming to Florida Southern College, Marina taught a wide range of metadata and cataloging courses in Canada at Seneca College - Library and Information Technician Program in Toronto, ON and at Mohawk College - Library and Information Technician Program in Hamilton, ON. As a librarian she worked in highly collaborative environments on various special collections and digital scholarship projects, while cataloging, promoting, and helping develop several digital collections.

Mark Offtermatt Joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center in early 2022 as a senior librarian and digitizing archivist. With over a decade of experience in both public and academic service, he currently serves as the AV Digitizing Archivist, and Lead Technical Librarian for the NSRC's Metadata Initiative. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and Eurasian Studies from The Evergreen State College, and a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.

Megan Rose Kilidjian is a motion picture film archivist at the National Security Research Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s classified library and archive. Previously, she’s held positions as an audiovisual preservation project manager at George Blood Audio/Video/Film, and as the public media digitization archivist at New Mexico PBS. She completed her master’s degree in library and information science with a concentration in archives management at Simmons University. She currently serves on the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Motion Picture Film Working Group, and Los Alamos National Laboratory's Metadata Initiative Committee.

I have worked in the library field for 14 years, starting off in public library acquisitions before moving to academic content delivery and subscription management. Just over a year ago, I moved to the Research Services team at Anglia Ruskin University, where I help to run and maintain the institutional repository and advise researchers on open access. All of my roles have been heavily involved in metadata creation and curation, plus I have worked on a number of large-scale system migrations, so I am strong proponent of metadata standardisation, data integrity and quality control.

Matyas Bohacek is a student researcher at Stanford University, advised by Professor Hany Farid from UC Berkeley. His research focuses on generative AI, deepfake detection, and other problems at the intersection of AI and media forensics.

Natalia Hernandez has a Master's degrees in History and in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has worked in a wide variety of librarianship roles in academic, public, and special libraries, from reference services to workshop instructor, as well as project and grant management. Her interests in the field include access to information, cataloging, metadata, and community oral histories. From 2020 to 2023, she worked as project manager for the Mellon Foundation’s digitization initiative at the General Archives of Puerto Rico. Recently, she joined the library team at the UPR in Mayaguez, as a metadata specialist, where she works organizing assets of the institution’s Oral History Lab.

José J. Morales Benítez is the Research Services Librarian in the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the General Library of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM). His role is to provide support services to graduate students and faculty in all stages of the research process. As part of his duties at GRIC, José designs and delivers workshops on topics such as data management, data sharing, scholarly communications, open access publishing, and discovery and evaluation of information sources. He also creates online guides and videos and offers individual consultations on these topics. Additionally, José helps manage Scholar@UPRM, which is UPRM’s institutional repository, providing support to graduate students and faculty in the self-deposit process and checking for metadata consistency. Besides working at GRIC, José collaborates with UPRM's Oral History Lab (OHL), having led the initial design for the creation and management of the OHL's digital collections. This collaboration has included establishing metadata systems, establishing workflows for the intake and processing of oral history interviews, and working to maximize dissemination and access to the oral histories. José has also helped organize numerous workshops presented by the OHL addressing topics such as digital preservation, metadata creation, and the development of oral history collections and community archives.

Jesse Johnston is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. Johnston has been active in the cultural heritage field as an administrator, librarian, archivist, and civil servant. As senior librarian for digital content at the Library of Congress, he managed policy development and training initiatives at the Library's Digital Collections Management division. Prior to that, he served as a senior program officer for preservation and access at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

As head of the Bentley's Curation team, I represent the team on the Bentley Leadership Team and lead the Bentley's holistic approach to curating archives of all genres and formats.