Eric Kansa
Consultant To The Getty Conservation Institute
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Kansa is a data-focused technologist and program director with 14+ years building web-native systems for publishing and reusing structured scientific data, currently consulting to the Getty Conservation Institute and leading OpenContext.org. He specializes in linked data, semantic modeling, and RESTful web services to make archaeological, ecological, and medical research datasets interoperable with external vocabularies and resources like GeoNames, Pleiades, and Wikipedia. At Open Context he designed APIs and SKOS-based controlled vocabulary publication workflows that align with evolving NSF data-sharing expectations. Based in Berkeley, he blends academic experience from UC Berkeley’s D-Lab and I-School with practical open-source stewardship of data management tools such as Arches. Known for turning domain-specific research workflows into reusable web services, he brings a pragmatic emphasis on interoperability that often anticipates broader community standards.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHarvard University
Github Skills (102)
python10
django9
kpi9
remote-server9
server-side8
web-platform8
backbonejs8
graph-database8
collation8
kobotoolbox8
gis8
geospatial8
sphinx8
sphinx-doc7
metadata7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ekansa/cow
Jun 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 8 months
ekansa/open-context-code
Jun 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:423 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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