Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS) Specialization in Data Curation Data Curation for the Humanities Fellow

Robin Camille Davis

robincamilledavis@gmail.com • robdavis@jjay.cuny.edu robincamille.com • @robincamille • (212) 237-8261

Education

MA 2016 City University of New York Graduate Center

Computational Linguistics

MLIS 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS) Specialization in Data Curation

Data Curation for the Humanities Fellow 2010-11 BA 2010 Brown University, Providence, RI

English Language and Literature with focus in Medieval and Early Modern Period Spring 2009 Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), Paris, France

Course work in art history, French literature and cinema, culinary geography

Work

2012–present Emerging Technologies and Distance Services Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

• Identifying, assessing, and implementing emerging technologies in the library

• Researching and implementing effective distance librarianship strategies and policies

• Collaborating with faculty to support online courses

• Supporting and advocating research data management

• Coordinating creation of the Digital Collections: customizing CollectiveAccess software, metadata management, and content creation and migration

• Designing and maintaining new library website using Drupal CMS, including coordinating content migration and regular usability testing

• Reference and instruction duties

• Social media training and strategy

2010–2012 Research assistant, Data Curation Education Program in the Humanities (DCEP-H), GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Built the DH Curation Guide (guide.dhcuration.org), a collaborative online introduction to resources and best practices in digital humanities data curation, as part of IMLS-funded DCEP-H grant (PI: Allen Renear)

• Designed the user interface and XSLT-powered publishing system

• Collaborated with programmers to implement innovative granular commenting system

• Promoted the Guide in online venues and at international academic conferences, including iConference 2012 (Toronto) and DH2012 (Hamburg)

• Authored project sustainability plan

2012 Visual resources assistant, Visual Resources Center volunteership, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Color-corrected and touched up digitized slides using Adobe Photoshop

• Taught other assistants Photoshop skills and techniques

2011 Web preservation intern, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Digital Services Division, Washington, DC

• Facilitated the preservation of Smithsonian web content, adhering to archival and institutional standards

• Customized Heritrix and Wayback software to fit organizational needs

• Established web preservation workflow (in use for two years) and wrote extensive documentation, including walkthroughs, troubleshooting, and risk analysis

• Presented reports and recommendations to the director of the Digital Services Division

• Provided Photoshop expertise to digitization archivists and offered user interface and usability feedback on the archives’ new website, in addition to core projects

2010–11 Survey coordinator, Center for Multimedia Excellence (CME) practicum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Coordinated and implemented campus-wide survey assessing media holdings to aid development of the campus media preservation policy

• Conducted personal interviews across campus to gain further insight into departmental preservation policies

• Analyzed survey responses to identify patterns of department-specific issues and risks facing campus units in preserving digital and analog media

2008–10 UX and graphic designer, Scholarly Technology Group (STG) at Brown University (later absorbed into the Center for Digital Scholarship), Providence, RI

• Collaborated with professors to develop websites for digital humanities projects

• Designed user interfaces, posters, and brand identity for STG projects 2010 Local history intern, Mahomet Village Public Library, Mahomet, IL

• Inventoried, assessed, and reorganized the local history collection

• Submitted recommendations for collection preservation

2010 Volunteer researcher, Providence Public Library, Special Collections, Providence, RI

• Researched notable European and American printers for a scholarly database 2007–10 Freelance graphic designer, Providence, RI

• Designed flyers, posters, and websites for university offices and student organizations

Peer-reviewed publications

Davis, Robin. “Git and GitHub for Librarians.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 34.3 (forthcoming). Davis, Robin. “Teaching the Network: a Brief Demonstration of the Internet’s Structure for Information Literacy

Instruction.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 34.2 (2015): 88-94. Print and web.

Other selected publications

Magnussen, Lauren and Robin Davis. “Analyzing EZProxy Logs.” ACRL Tech Connect. Association of College & Research Libraries. 29 Oct. 2014.

Davis, Robin. “MLA 2014: A Quick Reflection.” dh+lib. Association of College & Research Libraries, Digital Humanities Interest Group. 5 Feb. 2014.

Davis, Robin. “Saving the Smithsonian’s Web.” The Bigger Picture. Smithsonian Institution Archives. 25 Aug. 2011.

Davis, Robin. “Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites.” The Bigger Picture. Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2 Aug. 2011.

Wikipedia editing under username Rcamilled. 500 edits and 36 articles created as of July 2015.

Blog posts at Emerging Tech in Libraries, my CUNY Commons blog. 56 posts and 750,000+ pageviews as of July 2015.

Code contributions on GitHub under username robincamille. 7 repositories created with 23 stars and 9 forks as of July 2015.

Presentations

Most presentations online at robincamille.com/presentations

“Who does the Internet think you are?” LACUNY Institute 2015. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2015. “Murder Mystery Challenge.” (With Marta Bladek.) CCNY Library Professional Development Day. City College

of New York. 2015.

“Your business card is the Internet.” Social Media: Finding a Platform workshop, OAR Public Scholarship Series. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2015.

“Taking Care of Digital Efforts: A Multiplanar View of Project Afterlives.” Hacking the Renaissance panel, MLA Convention. Vancouver, BC. 2015.

“Integrating information literacy in distance learning contexts.” LILAC Spring Workshop. Brooklyn College. 2014.

“Research Data Management Basics.” Faculty Development Day. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2014. “Careers in the Information Age.” Knowledge Alliance. Brooklyn Public Library. 2014.

“Murder Mystery Challenge!” (With Marta Bladek.) CUNY Games Festival. CUNY Graduate Center. 2014. “Integrating Information Literacy in Distance Learning Contexts.” LILAC Spring Workshop. Brooklyn

College. 2014.

“Mug Shots, Rap Sheets, & Oral Histories: Building the New Digital Collections at John Jay.” METROcon (annual conference of the Metropolitan New York Library Council). Baruch College. 2014.

“Life With Pi: Microcomputing in Academia.” CUNY IT Conference. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2013.

“Implementing a Reference Logger.” METRO Reference Special Interest Group. Metropolitan New York Library Council. 2013.

“Personal Information Management.” Faculty Development Day. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2013. “Reassignment Project: Early Modern Digital Agendas.” Grace-Ellen McCrann Memorial Lecture. LaGuardia

“Refining Our Library’s Web Presence.” LACUNY Reference Roundtable. CUNY Graduate Center. 2013. “Seeing: Final Report for EMDA.” Early Modern Digital Agendas. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2013. “HTML + CSS For Library Web Services.” (With Allie Verbovetskaya.) LACUNY Emerging Technologies

Committee workshop. CUNY Graduate Center. 2013.

Exhibits

John Jay at 50. (With John Jay at 50 Committee.) John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Web, wall, and exhibit cases. August 2014–August 2015.

Understanding the Torture Report. Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Web and exhibit case. December 2014–present.

From “Policewomen” to “Police Officers.” (With Tania Colmant-Donabedian.) Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Web and exhibit case. May 2014–December 2014.

Instruction

2015–present Online library sessions. As an “embedded librarian,” held online office hours by chat and created custom content for online-only courses, including Blackboard modules, embedded videos, and click-through tutorials.

2014–present Library class sessions. Library research skills taught in person for all levels of undergraduate and graduate classes in the departments of Communications, Criminal Justice, English, Law & Society, and Sociology.

Service

2015–present John Jay 2020: John Jay Online Committee (John Jay)—member, appointed 2013–present Social Media Committee (John Jay Library)—chair, appointed

2013–present Assessment Committee (John Jay Library)—member 2012–present Web Committee (John Jay Library)—chair, appointed

2012–present Faculty Senate Technology Committee (John Jay)—member, appointed 2013–2015 Emerging Technologies Committee (LACUNY)—chair, appointed 2013–2014 John Jay at 50: Exhibit Committee—appointed

2013–2014 Mobile Roundtable (LACUNY)—member 2013–2014 Space Committee (John Jay Library)—member

2012–2013 Online Education Advisory Committee (John Jay)—member, appointed 2011–2012 ALA Student Chapter Lecture Committee—chair, elected

Other activities

2014–present CollectiveAccess User Group—convener of NYC chapter (METRO) 2013–present Gamelan Kusuma Laras—ensemble musician

Professional organizations

2014–present Modern Language Association (MLA)

2013–present Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL/NY)—  NYC Metro Area Chapter 2012–present Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY)

2012–present Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)—includes membership in the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

2012–present Beta Phi Mu—Alpha chapter, appointed 2010–2011 American Library Association (ALA)

Selected honors

2014 Early Modern Digital Agendas Weekend Participant

Invited back to the Folger Shakespeare Library for a two-day gathering of EMDA scholars, funded by NEH

2013 Early Modern Digital Agendas (EMDA) Participant

Selected as participant and awarded $3,000 stipend for the three-week program at the Folger Shakespeare Library, funded by an Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from NEH

2012 Digital Humanities 2012 Travel Scholarship

Awarded $3,000 scholarship for the DH 2012 Conference in Hamburg, Germany, July 2012. Funds provided by the Data Curation Education Program for the Humanities at GSLIS 2012 THATCamp Iowa City Fellowship

Awarded travel funds by and for The Humanities And Technology “unconference” 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Scholarship

Awarded travel scholarship for JCDL 2012 in Washington, D.C. Funds provided by the Data Curation Education Program for the Humanities at GSLIS

2012 iConference 2012 Travel Scholarship

Awarded travel scholarship for iConference 2012 in Toronto. Funds provided by the Data Curation Education Program for the Humanities at GSLIS

2010–11 Data Curation in the Humanities Fellowship

Full tuition waiver and $17,500 stipend awarded to a limited number of students in the emerging field of humanities-focused data curation

2011 T.W. Baldwin Book Collecting Contest Prize

$500 prize for my collection, “An Assemblage of Abecedaries” 2010 Margaret B. Stillwell Book Collecting Contest Prize

$250 prize for my collection, “A Catalogue of Dictionaries”

Selected skills

Web Accessible, responsive, and standards-compliant user interface design using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

Drupal 7—theme customization, maintenance, modules

CollectiveAccess—planning and maintaining digital collections and metadata Wordpress—installation, theme customization, maintenance, plugins

Programming Python—focus in text processing and mining API-powered hackery with Raspberry Pi and Arduino NLP Classification, prediction, NLTK, Scikit-learn

Linguistics Semantics, syntax, morphology

Version control Git—see github.com/robincamille

Subversion

Text representation Document analysis, encoding, processing, and representation using Python, XML,

XSLT, RelaxNG, TEI

Creative Adobe CS Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Javanese gamelan

Databases Relational database design and maintenance using SQL, phpmyadmin

Logical modeling and conceptual data representation

UX research User experience research methods, including on-site and remote usability testing and

site traffic analytics

Standards Familiar with Dublin Core, TEI, and METS

Human languages French (strong reading and proficient conversation)

Spanish (basic reading and conversation)

Old and Middle English, Latin (academic interest)