John Bell
Program Director, Magnuson Studios at Still Water Lab
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bell is a multidisciplinary software developer, educator, and program director with 11+ years building semantic-web APIs, XR experiences, and collaborative digital humanities platforms. He leads program and studio development at Dartmouth, having founded the Data Experiences and Visualizations Studio and now directing Magnuson Studios to scale emerging-technology research and teaching across campus. His work blends technical depth (JavaScript, LAMP, RDF/JSON APIs) with design-minded information architecture and accessibility—developing tools that enable distributed data sharing and folksonomic metadata exchange. A co-author of the well-regarded book 10 PRINT, he frames technical topics through cultural history, making complex networked systems comprehensible to diverse audiences. He has a track record of translating grant-funded research into production software (from Scalar integrations to XR fellowships) and of inventing cross-application registries that bridge institutional silos. Based in Hanover, NH, he pairs academic credentials (PhD, MFA) with hands-on engineering to shepherd interdisciplinary projects from concept to lasting infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Intermedial Collaborative Practices, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Intermedial Collaborative Practices at University of Maine
Github Skills (13)
integrate8
authority8
scalar7
javascript3
ecology3
hydra3
scala2
creative-commons2
frontend2
open-access1
dm1
multi-tenant1
annotations1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
novomancy/Statler
Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
A server app for storing and retrieving rich video annotations
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
annotationsserver-appstoringvideovideo-annotations
DartmouthDSC/LinkedNameAuthority
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:231 commits, 36 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 5 months
authoritydartmouth
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