Joseph Koivisto
Head Of Consortial Digital Initiatives
Mount Rainier, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Koivisto is a digital scholarship and libraries leader with 11 years of experience bridging cultural heritage, semantic technologies, and instructional design. As Head of Consortial Digital Initiatives at the University of Maryland, he architects programs that connect linked-open-data and semantic encoding practices to real researcher workflows across consortia. Comfortable moving between content management systems and medieval manuscripts, he has led NEH-funded projects and collaborated with institutions including the Library of Congress and DC Public Libraries. His background in user-facing training and documentation—ranging from SAP recordings to public fabrication lab instruction—gives him a rare mix of technical, pedagogical, and curatorial strengths. Known for turning complex metadata problems into usable discovery tools, he brings pragmatic scholarship to digital collections and their communities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, Writing & Philosophy minors, B.A., English, Writing & Philosophy minors at University of ScrantonH.S. Diploma, H.S. Diploma at Carlisle High SchoolMaster of Science in Library & Information Science (MSLIS), Cultural Heritage Information Management, Master of Science in Library & Information Science (MSLIS), Cultural Heritage Information Management at The Catholic University of America
English, German
Github Skills (22)
statement7
data-science3
machine-learning3
spark2
python2
etl2
scraper1
data-warehouse1
warehouse1
linux1
bash1
crowd1
drupal1
bootstrap1
scrape1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
umd-coding-workshop/workshops
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 29 days
trainingmachine-learningdata-science
23koivisto/23koivisto.github.io
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
A github.io thing
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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