Devin Becker
Associate Dean, Research And Instruction
Moscow, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Becker is an accomplished library and digital scholarship leader with 11 years of higher-education experience, currently serving as Associate Dean for Research and Instruction and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning at the University of Idaho. He builds and manages interdisciplinary digital infrastructure—overseeing GIS, data management, digital archives, OA/OER, and web development—while directing collaborative research and grant programs that bridge humanities and data-driven scholarship. As a former Head of Data and Digital Services and founding director of CDIL, he combines hands-on technical skills in metadata and digital libraries with strategic administration of teams and platforms. Trained in digital libraries and rare books (MLS) and with an MFA in poetry, he brings a rare mix of technical, managerial, and creative perspectives that inform user-centered digital scholarship.
11 years of coding experience
BA, Religion, English, BA, Religion, English at Williams CollegeMLS, Digital Libraries; Rare Books and Manuscripts, MLS, Digital Libraries; Rare Books and Manuscripts at Indiana University BloomingtonUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (35)
digital-humanities10
shift10
metadata10
csv10
ctrl10
get-started9
publish9
jekyll9
lti8
filemaker7
auto-generate7
python7
collections7
journalism6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thecdil/storying_combined
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 119 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
CollectionBuilder/collectionbuilder-sa
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
A stand-alone version of CollectionBuilder that iterates over user-provided media files and metadata to build a digital collection.
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 10 months
media-filesstand-alonemetadatastand
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