Sarah Ketchley
TEI XML Encoder Researcher - MBE Papers Project at University of Maryland Global Campus
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Ketchley is a Digital Humanities leader and TEI/XML specialist with 11+ years turning archival complexity into accessible, computationally analyzable scholarship. Currently encoding the Mary Baker Eddy Papers and directing major projects at the University of Washington, she blends deep Egyptology training (PhD) with hands-on technical work—TEI, eXist, Omeka, Linked Open Data—and platform development experience from launching the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. She has a track record of mentoring over 130 interns, building pedagogical pipelines, and running large-scale transcription and visualization projects that map historical networks and material culture. Known for bridging academic rigor with practical tooling, she often scrapes and integrates open-source data to enrich research databases and visualizations. Based in Washington, she teaches widely online and sustains collaborations across libraries, universities, and cultural institutions, bringing archival nuance to computational methods.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Egyptology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Egyptology at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (13)
xml10
tei-publisher10
jupyter-notebook10
historical10
xslt10
tagging10
markup9
transcription7
nlp3
sprint3
java2
mozilla2
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eba-diary/apps
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
XML files based on output from Historical Markup Tool, with additional manual tagging by Dr. Ketchley and interns
Contributions:3 reviews, 192 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
xml-filesinternsjupyter-notebookxmlsqlite3
eba-diary/eba_xml_volume_001
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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