Peter Chan
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPeter Chan is an award-winning digital archivist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 15 years of experience developing systems for email, web, and born-digital archives. He has led best-practice workflows in acquisition, capture, processing, and metadata management at Stanford University Libraries, translating archival theory into scalable, auditable processes. With an MLIS and an MBA focused on information technology, he bridges librarianship, metadata strategy, and practical tech adoption. Passionate about applying GenAI and modern tooling to accelerate archival research and data curation, he focuses on pragmatic innovations that improve access and preservation. Colleagues know him for turning complex digital preservation challenges into repeatable, documented solutions that support long-term discovery and reuse.
10 years of coding experience
MLIS, Library & Information Science, MLIS, Library & Information Science at San José State UniversityMBA, Information Technology, MBA, Information Technology at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (79)
generative10
neo4j10
data-import10
knowledge-graph9
vectordb9
pdf9
graph9
privategpt8
vectorstore8
graphdb8
ingest8
langchain8
collections8
unstructured-data8
discovery8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
peterchanws/ePADD
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 branch, 1 issue in 7 months
ePADD/epadd
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
Contributions:10 releases, 3 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
stanfordpythonappraisalstanford-universityemail
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