Ben Vershbow
Research Fellow, GLAM-E Lab at NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBen Vershbow is a cultural technologist and research fellow with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years working at the intersection of libraries, museums, and the open web. He has led major digital innovation programs—most notably NYPL Labs—and directed global community and partnership initiatives at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he combined program design, capacity building, and technical strategy to grow contribution pipelines into Commons and Wikidata. Currently incubating a venture to strengthen the software layer between open cultural collections and platforms like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive, he focuses on lowering technical barriers to sharing cultural heritage at scale. Based in Philadelphia, Ben brings a rare mix of curator-facing product development, legal-policy collaboration in GLAM contexts, and hands-on program leadership that has influenced other major institutions to adopt open-access practices.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Theater Studies, Bachelor's degree, Theater Studies at Yale University
English, French
Github Skills (9)
kill7
api6
scribe5
nodejs5
python4
catalog3
diagram1
geotagging1
architecture1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ScribeProject/scribeproject.github.io
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:26 pushes in 29 days
subsublibrary/architecture
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
diagramarchitecturearchitecture-diagramdirectory
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