Mark A. Matienzo
New Haven, CT and Brooklyn, NY — http://matienzo.org/
Education
Master of Science in Information, Archives and Records Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 2001
Experience
ArchivesSpace Project, New York University, New York, NY
Technical lead on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to develop a new, best-of-breed open source archival management system merging functionality of Archivists' Toolkit and Archon. Responsible for leading review and revision process of functional specifications, development of data model, creation of technical documentation, and technical assessment of potential vendors for programming fulfillment.
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
Development and implementation of workflows for accessioning, appraisal, arrangement, description, and preservation of born-digital archival material. Lead digital archivist on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project, Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS), focusing on stewardship of electronic records in manuscript collections. Service on Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure Digital Preservation Policy Committee and Yale University Library Finding Aids Coordinating Committee. Support and development related to Archivists' Toolkit implementation and data migration.
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Philadelphia, PA
Development of a unified search portal for bibliographic records from the Center's member institutions, using Blacklight, Ruby, Python, and Solr.
ArchivesSpace Planning Grant, New York University, New York, NY
Provided recommendations on technical architecture and assisted with meeting facilitation for planning grant for merging Archon and Archivists' Toolkit.
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Technical project manager for implementation of Fedora digital repository software. Drupal development (modules, views, content types, data migration) for the Library's website. Implementation of a multiple instance Solr deployment for searching and indexing content within Drupal. Supervision of graduate interns on EAD maintenance and archival description database migration project. Developer for projects integrating library and archival metadata into Drupal, Omeka, and other web platforms.
American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
Appraisal and arrangement of archival collections. DACS-compliant archival description in MARC21 and EAD; authority control and service as NACO liaison. Led test implementation of Archivists' Toolkit. Database administration (Access, Oracle, Sybase) and programming (Python, SQL, XSLT, Perl). In person, telephone, and electronic reference.
Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD
Full-level cataloging using SirsiDynix Horizon of 19th century Plains Indian ledger art for submission to ARTstor Project. Developed cataloging manual for project, using standards including DACS, LC Graphic Materials Manual, and AAT. Extensive authority control. Responsible for keeping project within grant-related deadlines and meeting established milestones.
ProQuest Information & Learning, Ann Arbor, MI
Full-level cataloging in OCLC Connexion using DCRB of microfilmed 16th-18th century British monographs, broadsides, and manuscripts and 18th-20th century French drama. Required to deliver high-quality catalog records for distribution to customers consistently and under strict deadlines.
Teaching
Fall 2011: INFO 756: Digital Preservation (Drexel University iSchool)
Fall 2009: LIS 901-08: Building Digital Libraries: Infrastructural and Social Aspects (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University)
Skills
Languages: Spoken and written English; reading knowledge of French and Latin.
Technology Skills
Applications: Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Archivists' Toolkit.
Content Management Systems/Web Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, Drupal, Django, web.py, WordPress.
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Free/Net/OpenBSD, Solaris, VMS.
Programming: Ruby, Python, PHP, SQL, Unix shell scripts, Perl, Java.
Database Systems: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Access, Sybase, XQuery (basic knowledge).
Search, Harvesting, and Indexing: Lucene (Solr, Nutch), SRU/Z39.50 (Zebra, YAZ), OAI-PMH.
Web/Markup Languages: XML, JSON, XHTML, XSLT 1.0 and 2.0, XSL-FO, CSS, TEI.
Semantic Web Technologies: RDF, Web Ontology Language (OWL), SKOS, SPARQL.
System Administration: Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postfix.
Library Skills
Metadata Standards: EAD, MODS, METS, PREMIS, MARC21/MARCXML, DACS, EAD, Dublin Core, AACR2, LCRI, DCRM(B).
Classification Standards & Thesauri: LCSH, LCNAF/NACO, LC Classification, AAT, TGM, MeSH, DDC.
Bibliographic Utilities: OCLC, RLIN, Classweb, Cataloger's Desktop, NUC pre-1956, NUCMC.
Library Management Systems: Innovative Interfaces, SirsiDynix Horizon, Ex Libris Voyager.
Training and Continuing Education
Archives Leadership Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 2011.
Designing Archival Description Systems, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, July 2009.
PREMIS Data Dictionary Workshop, Library of Congress, June 2007.
NACO Name Authority Institute, Library of Congress, November 2006.
Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Society of American Archivists, October 2006.
Introduction to Grant Writing, Smithsonian Institution, November 2005.
Service
International
Association of Canadian Archivists. Guest Editor, Archivaria 72 (Fall 2011), September 2010 - September 2011.
Society of American Archivists. Schema Development Team. Committee Member. March 2010 - Present.
National
BitCurator. Development Advisory Group Member. October 2011 - Present.
Institute for Museum and Library Services. Peer Reviewer. 2010 and 2011.
Museum Computer Network. Standards Special Interest Group. Chair. November 2008 - October 2009.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Peer Reviewer, 2009 and 2011.
OCLC Research. RLG Programs. Barriers to Using EAD Working Group. November 2008 - March 2010
OCLC Research. RLG Programs. Sharing and Aggregating Social Metadata Working Group, January 2009 - August 2009.
Society of American Archivists. Description Section. Vice Chair (2006-2007) and Chair (2007-2008).
Society of American Archivists. Electronic Records Section. Steering Committee. August 2010 - August 2011.
Society of American Archivists. Encoded Archival Description Roundtable. Co-Chair. August 2010 - Present.
Society of American Archivists. Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable. Web Liaison. August 2006 - August 2011.
Society of American Archivists. RLG Programs Roundtable. Co-Chair. August 2008 - August 2009.
Society of American Archivists. Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards. Committee Member. September 2007 - August 2009.
Society of American Archivists. Website Working Group. Member. September 2007 - August 2009.
Presentations
International Conference Presentations
Matienzo, Mark A. "Canonization, Archivalization, and the 'Archival Imaginary'." Archive Fervour/Archive Further: Literature, Archives, and Literary Archives, Aberystwyth, Wales, July 9-11, 2008. [refereed paper]
National Conference Presentations
Matienzo, Mark A. "Accessioning-Based Metadata Extraction and Iterative Processing: Notes from the Field." CurateGear, Chapel Hill, NC, January 6, 2012. [invited presentation]
Kott, Katherine, and Mark A. Matienzo. "ArchivesSpace: Building a Next-Generation Archives Management Tool." Digital Library Federation Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 31, 2011. [voted paper]
Gueguen, Gretchen, Mark A. Matienzo, Simon Wilson, and Peter Chan. "Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories: Turning Challenges into Byte-Size Opportunities." Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 27, 2011. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. and Katherine Kott. "ArchivesSpace Update." Society of American Archivists Archivists' Toolkit/Archon Roundtable, Chicago, IL, August 24, 2011. [invited presentation]
Glick, Kevin and Mark A. Matienzo. "Accessioning of Born-Digital Records." CREW: Collecting Repositories E-Records Workshop, Chicago, IL, August 23, 2011.
Abreu, Amelia, and Mark A. Matienzo. "Archival Sense-making: Personal Digital Archiving as an Iteration." Personal Digital Archiving 2011, San Francisco, CA, February 24-25, 2011. [refereed paper]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Fiwalk With Me: Building Emergent Pre-Ingest Workflows for Digital Archival Records using Open Source Forensic Software." Code4lib, Bloomington, IN, February 9, 2011. [voted paper]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Findability in the Flow: Discovery through Linking." Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Session 701: "Not on Google? It Doesn’t Exist: Findability and Search Engine Optimization for Archives," Washington, DC, August 14, 2010. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Accessioning, Transfer, and Ingest Workflow for Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories." Society of American Archivists Research Forum, Washington, DC, August 10, 2010. [refereed poster]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Online Presence and Participation." Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Session 101: "Building, Managing, and Participating in Online Communities: Avoiding Culture Shock Online," Austin, TX, August 13, 2009. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Linked Data and Archival Description: Confluences, Contingencies, and Conflicts." Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Description Roundtable, Austin, TX, August 12, 2009. [invited paper]
Matienzo, Mark A. "How I Failed With Distributed Version Control Systems, Archival Metadata, and Workflow Integration." Code4lib, Providence, RI, February 24, 2009. [voted paper]
Green, Jean, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Mark A. Matienzo, and Amy C. Schindler. "Old Stuff, New Tricks: How Archivists Are Making Special Collections Even More Special Using Web 2.0 Technologies." American Historical Association (session sponsored by the American Association for History and Computing), New York, NY, January 3, 2009. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Cheeseburgers With Everything: Context, Content, and Connections in Archival Description." EAD@10: A Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Encoded Archival Description. Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 31, 2008. [invited speaker]
Matienzo, Mark A., Amelia Abreu, Meredith Ferguson, and Merrilee Proffitt. "Rethinking Access And Descriptive Practice." Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 31, 2007. [refereed session]
Regional Conference Presentations
Matienzo, Mark A. "ArchivesSpace: Building a Next-Generation Archives Management Tool." Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Bethlehem, PA, October 22, 2011.
Matienzo, Mark A. Chair for "New Directions for Archival Data." New England Archivists, Providence, RI, April 2, 2011. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Learning to Take, Learning to Give: Linking as Repurposing Metadata." New England Archivists Spring Meeting, March 20, 2010. [refereed session]
Matienzo, Mark A. Chair for "Perspectives of Encoded Archival Description at the Institutional, Research, and National Level," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Jersey City, NJ, October 2009. [refereed session]
"WikiLeaks & the Archives and Records Profession: A Panel Discussion." Archivists' Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, New York, NY, January 25, 2011. [invited panelist]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Linked Data and Archival Description: Confluences, Contingencies, and Conflicts." Cornell University Library Metadata Working Group, Ithaca, NY, February 23, 2010. [invited speaker]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Archives & The Semantic Web (for Archivists)." Archivists' Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, New York, NY, June 23, 2009. [invited speaker]
Matienzo, Mark A. "Archives & The Semantic Web (for Semantic Technologists)." New York Semantic Web Meetup, New York, NY, May 13, 2009. [invited speaker]
Publications
Articles
Matienzo, Mark A. "'New Contexts of Permanent Change' in Digital Archivy." Archivaria 72, Fall 2011.
Matienzo, Mark A. "Linked Data and the Future of Archival Description." ARC Magazine, June 2010.
Matienzo, Mark A. "Using the OCLC WorldCat APIs." Python Magazine 3(6), June 2009.
Research Reports, White Papers, and Technical Reports
AIMS Work Group. AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship. Published online at: www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/whitepaper/, January 2012.
ArchivesSpace Technical Design Meeting: Summary Report on Technical Architecture. Prepared by Mark A. Matienzo for ArchivesSpace. Published online at: www.archivesspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ArchivesSpace_Technical_Architecture_Report-FINAL-07302010.pdf, July 2010.
Combs, Michele, Mark A. Matienzo, Merrilee Proffitt, and Lisa Spiro. Over, Under, Around, and Through: Getting Around Barriers to EAD Implementation. Report produced by OCLC Research in support of the RLG Partnership. Published online at: www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-04.pdf, February 2010.
Book Reviews
Matienzo, Mark A. Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual by Ross Harvey, New York: Neal Schuman, 2010. Archivaria 73, Spring 2012 (forthcoming).
Matienzo, Mark A. Memory Practices in the Sciences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Journal of the Association of History & Computing 10(1), February 2007.
Awards and Honors
Movers and Shakers in Archives Award, ArchivesNext, July 2009.
School of Information Opportunity Scholarship, University of Michigan, September 2001 - December 2003.
Registration Scholarship, 10th Annual National Conference on the Management of Electronic Records, September 2002.
Honors, Senior Independent Study Thesis, College of Wooster, April 2001.
Phi Sigma Tau (Philosophy Honors Society), College of Wooster, April 2000.
Arthur Holly Compton Scholarship, College of Wooster, September 1997 - May 2001.