Marijane White
Data Librarian, Assistant Professor
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMarijane White is a Data Librarian and Assistant Professor in Portland with 11 years of experience blending librarianship, engineering, and knowledge science to make complex data discoverable and reusable. She designs ontologies and Semantic Web representations, leads open science and data management initiatives at OHSU, and helps translate domain needs into interoperable technical solutions and curricula. Her background spans data science, semantic modeling, QA, and technical communication, giving her a rare mix of rigorous engineering practice and user-centered information stewardship. Known for fighting entropy, she systematically reduces friction in data workflows—turning messy schemas into testable, shareable knowledge assets. Colleagues rely on her for clear documentation, ontology-driven integration, and pragmatic strategies that advance reproducible research.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at South Dakota MinesMaster of Science, Library and Information Science, Master of Science, Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (113)
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
owl10
ontologies10
foundry10
open-science10
rdf10
scopus10
robot10
geneontology10
structured-data10
bioinformatics10
triplestore9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openrif/contribution-ontology
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pytorchrepresentationpersondeep-learningoutputs
data2health/credit-ontology
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
An OWL implementation of CRediT; a high-level classification of the diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output in the sciences. Its purpose to provide transparency in contributions to scholarly published work, to enable improved systems of attribution, credit, and accountability.
Contributions:6 releases, 32 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
diverseimprovedclassificationcredithigh-level
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