Clifford Anderson
Director Of The Divinity Library at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolClifford Anderson is a librarian, digital humanist, and theologian with 12 years of experience leading digital strategy and scholarly infrastructure at major institutions, now serving as Director of the Divinity Library at Yale. He combines academic librarianship and theological scholarship with software engineering skills—specializing in metadata, Databricks/Spark, NoSQL, XQuery, and digital humanities tooling—to modernize collections and research workflows. Clifford has built and led cross-disciplinary teams at Vanderbilt and the Center of Theological Inquiry, translating complex scholarly requirements into agile, data-driven library services. His background includes teaching computer science, curating special collections, and a PhD in theology, enabling him to bridge technical, legal (intellectual property), and humanistic perspectives. Based in New Haven, he is known for pragmatic digital scholarship solutions that surface hidden archival value through markup, standards, and scalable data platforms.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Philosophy at Kenyon CollegePhilosophy, Philosophy at KU LeuvenCertificate in Intellectual Property Law, Certificate in Intellectual Property Law at New York UniversityM.Div., M.Div. at Harvard Divinity SchoolM.S. Library and Information Science, M.S. Library and Information Science at Pratt InstitutePh.D. Theology, Ph.D. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary
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Github Skills (72)
nested10
jar9
avro9
snap9
csv9
networked9
svm9
jsoniq9
xquery9
visual-programming-language9
scale8
visual8
yaml8
json-data8
data-format8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CliffordAnderson/Personal-IVR
Feb 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
CliffordAnderson/XQuery4Humanists
Mar 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 95 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 2 months
xquery
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