Henry Borchers
Digital Library Technical Coordinator
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Borchers is a Digital Library Technical Coordinator with 11 years of experience building digitization workflows and tooling that bridge archival practice and IT. Based in the Chicago area, he designs and automates pipelines for complex audiovisual, image, and text collections—frequently using Python, DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Docker), and C/C++ bindings to integrate open-source libraries like Tesseract and Exiv2. He maintains several archival-focused open-source projects that make metadata extraction and OCR more accessible to librarians and archivists. Henry’s background in hands-on digitization and preservation, from nitrate film to Betacam, informs pragmatic software solutions that reduce manual QC and accelerate transfers into content systems. He’s equally comfortable soldering tape machines as he is packaging Python extensions, bringing a rare blend of practical conservation skills and systems-level engineering to cultural heritage organizations.
11 years of coding experience
BA, Communication Arts, BA, Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-MadisonFilm production, Film production at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Universiteit UtrechtThe University of Maryland, College ParkMA, Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, MA, Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at Universiteit van Amsterdam / University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, Spanish
Github Skills (168)
virus10
jenkins-api-plugin10
python10
metadata10
resolver10
jenkins-plugin10
xmp10
exiv210
binding10
eagle10
unobtrusive10
iptc10
packaging10
jstree10
jenkins10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
UIUCLibrary/jenklint
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
henryborchers/VisVid
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:93 PRs, 696 pushes, 102 branches in 2 years 10 months
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