Esther Jackson
Head, Open Scholarship at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEsther Jackson is a library and scholarly communications leader based in New York with five years of professional experience advancing open scholarship and research infrastructure. Currently Head of Open Scholarship at Columbia University, she previously built scholarly communication technologies as a librarian at Columbia and led public services at the New York Botanical Garden, bringing practical archival and digital collections expertise to academic settings. Trained with an MLS from the University at Buffalo and interdisciplinary honours degrees from the University of Toronto, she combines deep metadata, preservation, and service design knowledge with a humanities-informed perspective. Colleagues value her ability to translate researcher needs into sustainable, user-centered open scholarship programs that bridge technical platforms and institutional policy.
5 years of coding experience
Masters of Library Science, Masters of Library Science at University at BuffaloHonours Bachelor of Arts & Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction, Celtic Studies (major), East Asian Studies (minor), & Art History (minor), Honours Bachelor of Arts & Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction, Celtic Studies (major), East Asian Studies (minor), & Art History (minor) at University of Toronto
Github Skills (32)
crossword10
openrefine10
data-science10
wikimedia10
reconciliation10
java10
data-wrangling10
journalism10
wikidata10
data-analysis10
python9
data-manipulation9
hugo8
digital-humanities7
openseadragon6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ej2432/epistolae-hugo
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ej2432/ac-academiccommons
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Columbia Academic Commons
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 months
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