Ben Norton
Cultural Heritage Data Scientist
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Norton is a Cultural Heritage Data Scientist with nine years of multidisciplinary experience making scientific and museum data interoperable, discoverable, and preserved for the long term. He blends informatics, full-stack development, and geoscience expertise to design data publication pipelines, extend collection management systems, and build bespoke web and GIS tools for museums and research institutions. Ben has led cross-institutional projects—from extending Specify for geology collections with Swiss natural history museums to stewarding Smithsonian collections data—and often acts as the bridge between curators, developers, and researchers. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs hands-on technical work (MySQL, metadata modeling, APIs, and visualization) with strategic data curation, and his career is notable for treating manuscripts, marmots, metadata, and malachite with equal rigor.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMaster of Science - MS, Geosciences, Master of Science - MS, Geosciences at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
Github Skills (52)
biodiversity-informatics9
nomenclature8
biodiversity8
evolution8
describe8
ecology8
bioinformatics8
taxonomy7
traits7
semantics7
jekyll7
darwin7
trap7
collections6
pelican6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ben-norton/stadocgen
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Documentation Generator for TDWG Data Standards
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
ben-norton/ben-norton
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Ben Norton
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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