Cara Key
Digital Repository Librarian at Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCara Key is a digital repository and metadata librarian with a decade of experience across academic, federal, and public libraries, currently managing OSU's digital repository. She has built metadata programs and workflows from the ground up—from special collections and MARC conversions to enterprise-scale metadata policy and ontologies—bridging technical services, discovery, and user-facing instruction. Cara brings practical DoD research experience and a habit of documenting and teaching workflows, which helps translate complex archival practices into usable services for diverse communities. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, she combines meticulous cataloging skills with a user-centered focus on lifelong learning and discoverability, and has a track record of turning hidden or inconsistent collections into accessible, standards-compliant digital assets.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MLIS, Library and Information Studies, MLIS, Library and Information Studies at Florida State UniversityCertificate, Basic Archives Standards & Practices, Certificate, Basic Archives Standards & Practices at Western Archives InstituteBA, Anthropology, BA, Anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (27)
linked-data7
rdf6
blazegraph6
csv5
xml5
controlled5
iiif5
solr5
rails5
fedora5
mls4
hydra4
metadata4
ruby4
islandora4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osulp/bepress-ojs-xslt
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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