Meredith Hale
Metadata Librarian
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeredith Hale is a Metadata Librarian with nine years of experience designing culturally aware descriptive metadata and managing digital collections at the University of Tennessee. She specializes in creating MODS records and publishing them through Islandora, DPLA, WorldCat, and Primo, while collaborating closely with special collections to build data dictionaries and authority practices. With dual graduate degrees in Art History and Information Science and hands-on experience transforming legacy photo-archive data into RDF at Yale, she bridges deep domain knowledge in the arts with technical metadata engineering. Meredith also brings practical tech skills from earlier roles—3D printing workflows, data visualization with Tableau, and bibliometrics—that inform pragmatic, user-centered access solutions. Based in Knoxville, she pairs rigorous cataloging standards with a commitment to culturally informed description that improves discoverability across local and national platforms.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Arts in Art History (MA) & Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS), Master of Arts in Art History (MA) & Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration and English & Textual Studies, 3.92, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration and English & Textual Studies, 3.92 at Syracuse UniversityMA, 1700-1900 Literature and Culture (English), MA, 1700-1900 Literature and Culture (English) at University of SussexNon-Degree Student, Art History, Urban Studies, Foreign Language, 4.0, Non-Degree Student, Art History, Urban Studies, Foreign Language, 4.0 at Cleveland State University
French, Spanish, German, Czech
Github Skills (48)
reconciliation9
data-science9
openrefine9
java9
metadata9
application-profile9
data-wrangling9
wikidata9
journalism8
xml8
data-analysis8
documentation-generator8
minimum8
islandora8
marc7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UTKcataloging/phoenix_remediation
Dec 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
UTKcataloging/galston
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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