Ed Summers

Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

ehs@pobox.com
inkdroid.org
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github.com/edsu

I am a software developer with two decades of experience bridging the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. I have worked in academia, startups, corporations and the government. I work best in agile, highly collaborative teams, that want to help make the world a better place.

Skills

• web technology, APIs, REST, linked data, web archiving
• digital preservation, data management, knowledge management, search
• opensource, standards development, community building
• automated testing, agile software development, rapid prototyping
• Python, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Java, C, Scheme
• Ubuntu, Red Hat, Amazon Web Services

Work History

Lead Software Developer
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
08/2014 - Present

• digital humanities research and development
• linked data publishing
• automated testing
• requirements gathering / project management
• digital archives

Information Technology Specialist
Repository Development Center
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
03/2006 - 08/2014

• digital preservation and repository software design and development
• lead software developer on the National Digital Newspaper Project
• created a web based quality assurance tool for handling high volume image digitization projects
• social media archiving (Twitter)
• designed and implemented the Library of Congress Linked Data Service
• contributing member to the Semantic Web Deployment Group, Library Linked Data Incubator Group, and eGov Interest Group at the W3C

Consultant
George Washington University, Washington, DC
10/2013 - present

• Django Web Development
• Voyager ILS integration (Oracle)
• Serial Solutions Summon API integration

Consultant
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
09/2013 - present

• web harvesting
• data managment

Consultant
Hypothes.is
San Fransisco, CA
01/2013 - 10/2013

• CoffeeScript and Python development
• development of the opensource Annotator and Annotator Store projects
• design and implementation of cross format annotation support
• functional and unit testing support using Selenium, PyTest, Travis-CI and SauceLabs

Consultant
GlueJar
11/2011 - 04/2012

• Django software development UnglueIt
• Amazon AWS Deployment (EC2, RDS, Route 53) for dev, test and production
• Google Books integration
• Google, Facebook, Twitter social media integration
• automated testing and continuous integration (Jenkins)

Consultant
Canary Project
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
07/2005 - 12/2005

• Python object oriented design
• automated testing
• implemented a reporting framework
• Quixote, Pylucene, MySQL, Red Hat administration

Senior Software Engineer
Follett Corporation, McHenry IL
05/2005 - 03/2006

• building and supporting a distributed knowledge management application
• requirements gathering and project planning
• web service design and implementation
• ONIX metadata harvesting and ingest
• Java performance tuning
• automated testing
• database administration
• Linux/Windows systems administration

Consultant
Performix, Chicago IL
02/2004 - 04/2005

• object oriented design
• refactored large Perl codebase
• Perl, Apache, mod_perl, DB2

Consultant
Queens Borough Public Library, New York NY
06/2004 - 05/2005

• character encoding conversion
• controlled vocabulary mining
• Perl data processing training

Consultant
Notre Dame University, South Bend IN 06/2004 - 12/2004

• training in object oriented programming and unit testing
• high volume metadata harvesting
• guidance and implementation search technologies
• ported Java Commonn Query Language parser to Perl

Applications Developer
Follett Library Resources, McHenry IL
07/2002 - 05/2004

• PHP/Perl development in a Unix/Oracle environment
• determined project requirements, created task lists and schedules
• designed and developed library collection analysis application
• unit and application level automated testing
• Oracle/Apache stress testing and performance tuning
• XML processing
• distributed application design using SOAP/XMLRPC

Senior Software Engineer
CheetahMail, New York NY
02/2000 - 07/2002

• team lead in a group of 8 programmers
• developed data processing infrastructure for Fortune 500 clients
• designed/developed real time reporting system
• creation and maintainance of web service API
• in depth knowledge of SMTP and HTTP protocols
• web services development
• technical representative for partners and sales
• networking and systems administration as required

Electronic Resources Librarian
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
04/1998 - 02/2000

• SGML data processing for electronic texts for 39 universities in Virginia.
• created current awareness system to alert students/faculty to new items in their field of interest.
• created XML publishing system for archival finding aids.
• developed serials database for locating licensed fulltext.
• III/OCLC metadata management integration

Visiting Assistant Professor University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
08/1996 - 03/1998

• web/database development (ASP/SQLServer)
• collection development and cataloging in Sociology and Political Science
• preservation of 19th century criminology pamphlet collection
• managed reference services in the Social Science Library

Selected Projects

I like to learn and keep my skills sharp by working on or participating in opensource projects. This is a shortlist of projects that I am proud to have started or been involved with:

• wikistream: visualize realtime edits to all major language Wikipedias
• anon: post anonymous Wikipedia edits from particular IP ranges to Twitter e.g. congress-edits
• pymarc: a python library for liberating library data locked up in the MARC format
• shortimer: a jobs board that uses Google Freebase
• linkypedia: view how websites are used on Wikipedia
• fondz: generate an archival description for describing born digital content
• ici: view Wikipedia articles for your current location on a map
• microdata: a python library for parsing HTML 5 microdata
• twarc: a command line utility for archiving Twitter
• rdflib: a Python library for processing RDF

Selected Publications

• MJ no more: Using Concurrent Wikipedia Edit Spikes with Social Network Plausibility Checks for Breaking News Detection. 2013.
• Linking Things on the Web: A Pragmatic Examination of Linked Data, 2013.
• Key Choices in the Design of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), 2013.
• Library Linked Data Final Report, W3C Incubator Group Report, October 2011.
• SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer, W3C Working Group Note, August 18th, 2008. www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
• LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data, Proceedings of the International Conference on DublinCore and Metadata Applications, 2008.
• Following Your Nose to the Web of Data, Information Standards Quarterly, 2008
• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester, Ariadne, no. 38, Jan 2004.
• Cyril: Expanding the Horizons of MARC21, Library Hi Tech, v. 22, no. 1, 2004.
• A Consortial Approach to Cooperative Cataloging and Authority Control: The Virtual Library of Virginia Experience, Resource Sharing and Information Networks, v. 16, no. 1, 2003, p. 33-53.
• Paying Homage to Perl (PHP), The Perl Review, January, 2003.
• MARC it your way: MARC.pm, Information Technology and Libraries, March, 2002.
• Comprehensive Access to Periodicals: A Database Solution, Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services, v. 24, no. 2, 2000, p. 33-44.
• Show Me the Metadata, Against the Grain, v.11, no.1, 1998.
• Gateways to Social Work/Welfare on the Net, C&RL News, v.59, no. 3, 1998, p.163-167.

Education

• MLS, School of Communications, Information and Library Science, Rutgers University, 1995-1996
• BA English and American Literature, Rutgers University, 1987-1991.

Awards

• 2015 University of Maryland Scholarship and Research Award
• 2015 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
• 2015 Shorty Award

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