Résumé

Mark A. Matienzo

Brooklyn, NY — http://matienzo.org/

Summary

US citizen. Experienced in a wide range of archival practice, including appraisal, arrangement, description, and reference. Proficient with many metadata standards in archives and libraries, including DACS, EAD, MARC, Dublin Core, and AACR2. Experienced with systems administration and support in library environments. Highly research-oriented, with areas of interest including archival theory, taxonomies, information visualization, and descriptive practice. Capable of working well both in teams and individually, under strict deadlines and with changing priorities.

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

Digital Archivist (January 2010 - Present)
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

  • Development and analysis of workflows for appraisal, arrangement, description, and preservation of born-digital components of manuscript collections.
  • Service on campus-wide digital preservation planning committee.
  • Support and development related to Archivists' Toolkit implementation and data migration.

Consultant (August 2009 - Present)
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, Philadelphia, PA

  • Development of a unified search portal for bibliographic records from the Center's member institutions.

Applications Developer, Digital Experience Group (June 2008 - January 2010)
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 reimplementation of the Library's website.
  • Implementation and maintenance of a multiple instance Solr deployment for searching and index content within Drupal.
  • Supervision of graduate archival studies 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.

Adjunct Professor, Palmer School of Library & Information Science (September 2009 - December 2009)
Long Island University, New York, NY

  • Instructor for "Building Digital Libraries: Infrastructural and Social Aspects."

Assistant Archivist, Niels Bohr Library and Archives (March 2006 - May 2008)
American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD

  • Appraisal and arrangement of archival collections.
  • DACS-compliant archival description in MARC21 and EAD; authority control and serving as NACO liaison.
  • Leader for implementation of Archivists' Toolkit.
  • Database administration (Access, Oracle, Sybase) and programming (Python, SQL, XSLT, Perl) to support the Library.
  • In person, telephone, and electronic reference.

Project Archivist (Contractor), National Anthropological Archives (September 2005 - February 2006)
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.

Catalog Librarian (Contractor), Research Collections (June 2004 - August 2005)
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.

Further qualifications, including positions held in graduate school, are available on request.

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: Drupal, Django, web.py, Rails, Sinatra, WordPress, Zend.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Free/Net/OpenBSD, Solaris, VMS.
  • Programming: Python, PHP, Ruby, 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: MARC21/MARCXML, DACS, EAD, Dublin Core, MODS, METS, 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.
  • Reference Products: OCLC, ProQuest, LexisNexis, SilverPlatter, Web of Knowledge.

Training

  • 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.

Memberships and Professional Service

American Association for History and Computing

  • Member, October 2008 - Present.

Museum Computer Network

  • Chair, Standards Special Interest Group, November 2008 - October 2009.
  • Member, September 2008 - Present.

RLG Programs, OCLC

  • Member, Barriers to Using EAD Working Group, November 2008 - March 2010.
  • Member, Sharing and Aggregating Social Metadata Working Group, January 2009 - August 2009.

Society of American Archivists

  • Steering Committee Member, Electronic Records Section, August 2010 - Present.
  • Member, Schema Development Team, March 2010 - Present.
  • Web Liaison, Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, August 2006 - Present.
  • Member, Website Working Group, September 2007 - August 2009.
  • Member, Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards, September 2007 - August 2009.
  • Co-Chair, RLG Programs Roundtable, August 2008 - August 2009.
  • Vice-Chair (2006-2007)/Chair (2007-2008), Description Section.
  • Member, September 2001 - Present.

Conference Sessions

  • "Not on Google? It Doesn’t Exist: Findability and Search Engine Optimization for Archives," (speaker), Society of American Archivists, Washington, DC, August 2010.
  • "Accessioning, Transfer, and Ingest Workflow for Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories," (poster), Society of American Archivists Research Forum, Washington, DC, August 2010.
  • "Learning to Take, Learning to Give: Linking as Repurposing Metadata," (speaker), New England Archivists, Amherst, MA, March 2010.
  • "Linked Data and Archival Description: Confluences, Contingencies, and Conflicts," (invited speaker), Cornell University Library Metadata Working Group, Ithaca, NY, February 2010.
  • "Perspectives of EAD at the Institutional, Research, and National Level," (chair), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Jersey City, NJ, October 2009.
  • "Online Presence and Participation" (speaker), Society of American Archivists, Austin, TX, August 2009.
  • "Linked Data and Archival Description: Confluences, Contingencies, and Conflicts" (invited speaker), Encoded Archival Description Roundtable, Society of American Archivists, Austin, TX, August 2009.
  • "Archives & The Semantic Web (for Archivists)" (invited speaker), Archivists' Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, New York, NY, June 2009.
  • "Archives & The Semantic Web (for Semantic Technologists)" (speaker), New York Semantic Web Meetup, New York, NY, May 2009.
  • "Distributed Version Control Systems, Archival Metadata, and Workflow Integration" (speaker), code4lib, Providence, RI, February 2009.
  • "Old Stuff, New Tricks: How Archivists Are Making Special Collections Even More Special Using Web 2.0 Technologies" (speaker), American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 2009.
  • "Cheeseburgers With Everything: Context, Content, and Connections in Archival Description" (invited speaker), EAD@10: A Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Encoded Archival Description, San Francisco, CA, August 2008.
  • "Canonization, Archivalization, and the Archival Imaginary" (speaker), Archive Fervour/Archive Further, Aberystwyth University (Wales), July 2008.
  • "Archivists' Toolkit" (speaker), code4lib, Portland, OR, February 2008.
  • "Rethinking Access And Descriptive Practice" (chair/commentator), Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL, August 2007.
  • "Solr and Lucene for Libraries" (co-moderator), Library Camp NYC, New York, NY, August 2007.
  • "How To Create Unmaintainable Indexing Workflow" (speaker), code4lib, Athens, GA, February 2007.
  • "Bridging the Gap: Techie to Non-Techie" (moderator), Library Camp East, Darien, CT, September 2006.

Publications

  • Matienzo, Mark A. "Linked Data and the Future of Archival Description." ARC Magazine, June 2010, p. 18-19.
  • 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
  • Matienzo, Mark A. "Mapping Library Holdings Using the OCLC WorldCat APIs," Python Magazine 3(6), June 2009.
  • Matienzo, Mark A. Review of Memory Practices in the Sciences, Journal of the Association of History & Computing X(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.