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Arizona State University

Speaker Bio for Nikko Stevens

Dr. Nikko Stevens is a critical technology researcher, software engineer, and community organizer. As an academic, Stevens studies the ways that data infrastructures--data models, databases, data structures--can reinforce existing social inequality, and, crucially, how we can use data infrastructures to guide us towards the worlds we wish to build. As a software engineer, led the architecture of web properties for billion-dollar corporations like Coca-Cola, Sony, and Instagram, and their work won numerous awards, including at SXSW. As a community organizer, Stevens's work in the Drupal community earned them the Aaron Winborn Award and recognitions by Red Hat and The Linux Foundation. They are currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT where they are writing *Abolitionist Engineering,* a book about data infrastructure, software engineering, and the contemporary prison abolition movement.

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Penn State University Libraries

Speaker Bio for Ruth Kitchin Tillman

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 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.

Talks and Workshops

Speaker Bio for Greg Albers

Workshop: Hands-On Digital Publishing Workshop with Quire

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Emory University

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California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

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University of Texas Libraries

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Harvard University - Library Technology Services

Speaker Bio for Sharon Clapp

Workshop: Shinobi Skills: Mastering the Art of Prompt Engineering

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Asst. Director, Library Software Engineering

Princeton University Library

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Speaker Bio for Esmé Cowles

I am a technologist with more than twenty years of experience building open software and standards.

Workshop: How To Host Code4Lib

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Princeton University Library

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Speaker Bio for Katherine "Kate" Deibel

Talk: Making the Development Process Inclusive of Disabilities

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University of Rochester

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UCLA

Speaker Bio for Erin Cecele Dunigan

Workshop: Hands-On Digital Publishing Workshop with Quire

University of Utah

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University of Calgary

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University of Rochester

Speaker Bio for Cary Gordon

Workshop: Discover the new Islandora and ISLE

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University of Texas Libraries

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GBH Media Library & Archives

Speaker Bio for Ryan "Harpo" Harbert

Talk: Whisper at High Volumes: How to transcribe an Archive

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Free Ebook Foundation

Speaker Bio for Eric Hellman

Talk: Making an accessible Winnie-the-Pooh

Indiana University Bloomington

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Johns Hopkins Sherdian Libraries

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Princeton University Library

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NC State University Libraries

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GBH Archives

Speaker Bio for Owen King

Talk: Cataloging Video via Computer Vision

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New York Public Library/Brooklyn Public Library

Speaker Bio for Charlotte Kostelic

Talk: MARC record validation with Python and Pydantic

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UCLA

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Pennsylvania State University

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Indiana University

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University of Notre Dame

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Speaker Bio for Eric Lease Morgan

Eric Lease Morgan is a librarian working in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame where he provides text mining and natural language processing services to the University community. He does data science with words.

Workshop: Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader

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University of Texas at Austin

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Lead Librarian for UX Strategy

NC State University Libraries

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Speaker Bio for Andreas Orphanides

Andreas Orphanides is the Lead Librarian for UX Strategy at the NC State University Libraries. His work focuses on developing high-quality, thoughtfully designed technology solutions to support teaching, learning, and information discovery. His professional interests include systems analysis, human factors, and information design. Outside of work, he has too many cats.

Workshop: Fail4Lib 2025

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NC State University Libraries

Speaker Bio for Jon Page

Talk: Bots Behaving Badly: How We Learned to Tolerate Crawlers Without Losing Our Minds

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University at Albany

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University of Utah

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Princeton University Library

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Northwestern University Libraries

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Brandeis University

Speaker Bio for Kyeongmin Rim

Talk: Cataloging Video via Computer Vision

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University of Michigan

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Senior Library Software Engineer

Princeton University Library

Speaker Bio for Bess Sadler

Bess has been building free and open source software for almost thirty years and believes in the liberation potential of open culture, open science, and open technology. Currently, they work building infrastructure to enable reproducible open science.

Talk: Infosec for a world at war

Workshop: Agile4Lib

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Northwestern University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University

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University of Texas Libraries

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Yale University Library

Brandeis University

Speaker Bio for Marc Verhagen

Talk: Cataloging Video via Computer Vision

University at Buffalo

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University of Nevada, Reno

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Lead Software Engineer

JSTOR Labs

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Speaker Bio for Andromeda Yelton

Andromeda Yelton is a librarian-flavored software engineer at JSTOR Labs. In the past she has written code for the Library of Congress, the Berkman Klein Center, the MIT Libraries, the Wikimedia Foundation, and bespoke knitting patterns, among other things. She's probably thinking about planes.

Talk: Why MARC is terrible but brilliant and you should be nice to yourself