Jim Salmons
Founder And Project Director at The Softalk Apple Project
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Salmons is an independent applied researcher and founder with 12+ years leading projects at the intersection of cognitive computing and digital humanities. As Founder and Project Director of FactMiners.org and Research Director of The Softalk Apple Project, he designs metamodel-driven microservice patterns and human-assisted text- and data-mining workflows grounded in standards like CIDOC-CRM, FRBRoo and PRESSoo. He is developing MAGAZINE, an XML ground-truth extension of PRImA's PAGE format, with a particular archival focus on Softalk magazine — a niche blend of cultural heritage scholarship and practical tooling. Jim’s career spans consulting, R&D and executive roles since the 1970s, giving him rare institutional perspective on both productization and scholarly metadata modeling. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he combines deep ontology work with hands-on engineering to make complex legacy content computable and interoperable.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate studies (pre-ABD - Timlynn and I left UCI before graduating), Post-graduate studies (pre-ABD - Timlynn and I left UCI before graduating) at University of California at IrvineB.A., B.A. at Washington and Lee UniversityM.A., M.A. at Antioch University
English
Github Skills (78)
python10
chatgpt10
ai10
document-layout-analysis9
layout-parser9
generative-ai9
gemini9
pydantic9
langchain9
llm9
openai9
anthropic9
typescript9
optical-character-recognition8
tesseract8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FactMiners/factminers
Mar 2014 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years
SoftalkAppleProject/datasets_top30
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 48 pushes in 11 days
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