Ruth Kitchin Tillman Keynote
Ruth Kitchin Tillman is the Cataloging Systems and Linked Data Strategist at Penn State University Libraries. Her current research focuses on library systems and the people who use and maintain them. She has also written and presented on metadata encoding standards, library discovery, linked data, institutional repositories, and labor issues in libraries. She previously worked with institutional repositories as the Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Notre Dame and as the Metadata Librarian in the library at NASA Goddard. Ruth holds an MLS from the University of Maryland. She maintains the EADiva.com resource which documents EAD2002 and EAD3 for a non-technical audience. She is a former editor of the Code4Lib Journal and maintained the journal’s website from 2015-2021.
More information about Ruth can be found at her website.