Lora Woodford
Developer at ArchivesSpace
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLora Woodford is a seasoned developer with a decade of experience building maintainable, accessible, and conventions-compliant web applications, particularly for open source and cultural heritage organizations. She has deep Ruby/Rails expertise—demonstrated by her contributions to the widely used ArchivesSpace project, where she implemented MARCXML import mappings and accompanying tests—and has supported large federal search infrastructure on GSA’s Search.gov. Her background uniquely spans software engineering, DevOps, and digital archives work, enabling her to translate archival standards (MARC, EAD) into robust software and APIs. Lora has led accessibility remediation efforts, coached teams through Agile practices, and provided on-call and infrastructure support, blending hands-on coding with operational ownership. Based in Baltimore, she pairs domain knowledge in archival workflows with practical engineering to deliver sustainable, well-tested solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS, Archival Studies, MLIS, Archival Studies at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMA, History of Industrialization, MA, History of Industrialization at University of DelawareBA, History, BA, History at Susquehanna University
German
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
xslt9
lib8
testing8
develop7
backend7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
archivesspace/archivesspace
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
ArchivesSpace, the archives management tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 157 reviews, 29 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lora contributed to the ArchivesSpace repository by implementing MARCXML import functionalities. Their work involved adding support for various MARC fields, including 852, 264, 555, 561, 583, and 584. They primarily modified Ruby files to map MARCXML data to the ArchivesSpace data model, adding new features to the MARCXML converter. The commits also included unit tests to ensure the correctness of the newly implemented MARC mappings.
marc21cultural-heritagejavascriptrubymhealth
lorawoodford/i14y
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024
Search engine for agencies' published content
Contributions:168 pushes, 62 branches in 2 years 5 months
search-enginesfulltext-searchagenciessynonymssearch-engine
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