Dominic Byrd-mcdevitt
Director Of Community Engagement at Digital Public Library of America
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDominic Byrd-mcdevitt is a director-level open knowledge advocate with 13 years of experience driving access to government and cultural heritage data through technical programs, community engagement, and policy-savvy partnerships. Currently leading Community Engagement and the Hub Network at the Digital Public Library of America, he blends technical coordination—APIs, metadata pipelines, and occasional coding—with large-scale outreach and member services. He has led landmark Wikimedia initiatives, including producing the largest single upload to Wikimedia Commons (700,000 images) and helping a public library system grow to millions of page views in months. Dominic’s background at NARA, Smithsonian, and other institutions shows a consistent pattern of building sustainable workflows that embed open licensing and Wikimedia publishing into institutional practice. He is equally comfortable advising on API design and running trainings or governance processes, and he brings a pragmatic knack for turning archival description and crowdsourcing into measurable public impact. Based in Indianapolis, he pairs archival expertise (Simmons, Reed) with hands-on program delivery that scales cultural heritage into the open web.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
History and Archives Management, History and Archives Management at Simmons CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA), History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History at Reed College
Github Skills (23)
aggregator10
metadata10
ckan9
mediawiki8
crossword8
data-wrangling7
java7
reconciliation7
wikidata7
data-analysis5
journalism5
wikimedia5
python5
data-science5
creative-commons4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
usnationalarchives/sandbox
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:158 commits, 155 pushes, 8 comments in 2 years 4 months
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