John Kunze
Research Fellow at Drexel University Metadata Research Center
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Kunze is a veteran computer scientist and research fellow based in Berkeley with 43 years building the backbone of digital libraries, from early BSD/Unix software to contemporary repository microservices. He helped establish foundational identifier, metadata, and archiving standards (ARK, URL, Dublin Core, BagIt, WARC, Z39.50) and architected identifier systems for the California Digital Library that underpin HathTrust and OCFL-based repositories. Combining academic rigor and public-sector pragmatism, he leads the ARK Alliance and develops crowdsourced vocabulary tools at Drexel, while continuing to ship tooling that remains embedded in macOS and Linux distributions. Known as a standards-first engineer, his RFC contributions and long tenure across UC and national libraries reflect a rare mix of historical perspective and ongoing hands-on work in cultural heritage technology.
43 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (48)
unix10
freebsd10
history10
linux10
dictionary10
evolution10
version-control10
shell10
nim-language10
philosophy10
ontologies9
ietf9
metadata9
ontology9
semantic-web9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nassibnassar/yamz
Jul 2013 - Jul 2017
YAMZ - a crowdsourced metadata dictionary
Contributions:284 commits, 5 pushes, 2 issues in 4 years 1 month
dictionarypythonmetadatacrowdsourced
jkunze/dotfiles
Aug 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:64 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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