Paul Pival
Academic Director at Prairie Regional Research Data Centre
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolPaul Pival is an academic librarian and research data leader with over two decades of experience spanning reference services, collection development, systems support, and research data management. As Academic Director at the Prairie Regional Research Data Centre and long-time Librarian at the University of Calgary, he combines hands-on support for distance education, GIS, and qualitative data analysis with applied work in AI and mis/disinformation. He specializes in NVivo-driven qualitative workflows, academic and research data curation, and integrating social networking and blogging into information literacy. Paul’s background in library systems and web maintenance enables him to bridge technical and scholarly needs, and his early career roles in health and university libraries give him a practical appreciation for interdisciplinary research contexts.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MLS, Library Science, MLS, Library Science at University at BuffaloBachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology at SUNY Geneseo
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Github Skills (117)
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Github contributions (5)
ppival/apd-core
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Awesome Public Datasets Core
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
datasetsecologydataset
awesomedata/apd-core
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Core meta for awesome-public-datasets. Contribute new data here!
Contributions:4 reviews, 92 commits, 183 PRs in 3 years 11 months
public-datadata-scienceopendataopen-datadatasets
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