Katherine Polley
Web Services Librarian at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Polley is a Web Services Librarian with eight years of experience at the intersection of libraries and information technology, currently leading web services at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She combines practical metadata and archives work—from a Metadata Lab graduate research role and a NASA archives internship—to build accessible, well-documented web systems for academic patrons. Her background includes hands-on internships at Akamai and research experience in computer science during undergrad, giving her a rare blend of web engineering awareness and librarian-centered design. Based in Greater Boston, she brings a user-focused approach to metadata, web delivery, and digital preservation, with a track record of translating archival workflows into web-first services.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Ithaca College
Github Skills (8)
digital-humanities8
skos8
linked-open-data8
wikibase7
collections6
metadata6
database5
data-management5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
klpolley/chef_share
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Software Engineering Group Project - recipe + grocery sharing and management
Contributions:38 PRs, 80 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
groceryrecipesharingrubyengineering
Metadata-Lab/Linked_Archives_Wikibase
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Code and Documentation for importing the Metadata Lab's Linked Archives ontology for three special collections to a Wikibase instance.
Contributions:130 commits, 4 PRs, 140 pushes in 4 months
linked-open-datadata-managementimportingwikibaseskos
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