Matthew Christy
Technical Services Librarian at Baylor Health Sciences Library
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Christy is a technical services librarian and software developer with 14+ years blending computer science, librarianship, and the humanities. He began as a telecom programmer, transitioned into library systems and electronic resources management, and now designs and develops digital humanities tools—working with XML/XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, and shell scripting. He has led cataloging, e-resources, proxy and link-resolver systems, and managed large OCR projects (e.g., eMOP) using Tesseract and Gamera, pairing hands-on engineering with project and grant stewardship. Comfortable both as a systems implementer and a grant-writing collaborator, he brings rare depth across legacy ILS platforms and modern web/XML toolchains. Based in Dallas, he thrives at the intersection of technology, scholarship, and service, often translating archival research needs into production software.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Library Science, Master of Science (MS), Library Science at University of North Texas
English
Github Skills (17)
text-alignment9
recursive8
examine7
noise6
tesseract6
ocr4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
hocr3
ocr-engine3
java3
visualization2
typescript1
solr1
page-layout1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Early-Modern-OCR/TCP-ECCO-texts
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
Early-Modern-OCR/TesseractTraining
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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