Richard Higgins
Library Applications
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Higgins is a software engineer specializing in digital library applications and scholarly publishing with 11 years of experience building web applications for research libraries. Currently on the Library Applications team at the University of Michigan, he previously spent over a decade at Indiana University developing services that bridge digital humanities research and production systems. He pairs an MS in Information Science with a PhD in English, enabling him to translate complex scholarly workflows into maintainable, user-centered software. His background as a lecturer and digital humanities specialist gives him a rare combination of pedagogical empathy and technical rigor when designing library tools. Known for contributing to web and publishing stacks at research libraries, he focuses on sustainable, open approaches rather than one-off prototypes. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he brings a long-term commitment to academic infrastructure and the nuanced needs of researchers and librarians.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Science, Master of Information Science at Indiana University BloomingtonUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (18)
java10
open-access10
rest-api10
dspace9
open-source8
web-application8
security7
xml7
js6
parsing6
html5
css5
rivet5
statement4
feather-icons2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rshiggin/dh-abstracts
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
IUBLibTech/jatsParser-OJS-plugin
Mar 2021 - Jul 2025
jatsParser OJS plugin adapted from @Vitaliy-1 for parsing IUSW full text XML articles encoded with JATS schema
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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