Karl Grossner
Technical Director at World Heritage Web, Inc.
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Grossner is a technical director and GIScience researcher with 12+ years building web tools and data models for digital historical atlases and place-based historical knowledge. He leads the NEH-funded World-Historical Gazetteer project and has run World Heritage Web since 2003, where he developed the Topotime framework and GeoJSON-T for representing temporal-spatial features. Combining academic rigor from a PhD in Geography with hands-on software development, he creates interfaces and APIs that make interlinking historical gazetteers practical for research and education. Based in Denver, he bridges humanities and engineering, applying open standards and linked-data practices to scale historical place data for analysis and discovery.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Instructional Design and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Instructional Design and Technology at California State University-ChicoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (164)
sql-client10
opensearch10
digital-humanities10
postgresql10
db210
historical10
period10
erd10
elasticsearch10
nosql10
dbeaver10
sql10
database10
search-engine10
sqlite10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedPasts/lp-network
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
sul-cidr/josquin-tree
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:138 commits, 104 pushes, 29 branches in 5 months
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