Eleni Castro
Technology Solutions Manager at Amigos Library Services
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEleni Castro is a technology solutions manager and librarian with 12 years of experience designing digital preservation workflows and expanding access to research outputs. She has led digital ventures at Boston University and coordinated large-scale digitization and metadata projects—most notably overseeing the preservation of 200+ Mandinka Ajami manuscripts and post-processing over 17,000 images for archival repositories. A pragmatic advocate for open source and open access, she has contributed technical documentation to the widely used Dataverse research data repository to improve installability and data citation practices. Eleni combines hands-on technical training, remote troubleshooting in field projects, and strategic program leadership to make complex digital collections interoperable and discoverable. Based in Beverly, Massachusetts, she brings a librarian’s attention to metadata detail together with project management skills that scale scholarly infrastructure. An often-overlooked strength is her ability to translate between archivists, developers, and researchers to remove barriers to reuse and preservation.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Librarianship, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Librarianship at McGill University
French, Greek
Github Skills (4)
sphinx10
documentation10
user-guide8
data-exploration7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 101 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eleni primarily contributed to the documentation of the `iqss/dataverse` repository. Their commits added comprehensive guides, including the Installers Guide, Data Citation Guide, and Data Exploration Guide. Furthermore, they updated existing documentation and refined the structure and content of the guides to enhance usability and clarity for users and developers.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
posixeleni/test-repo
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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