Sarah Mason
Contributor Success Specialist at Artefactual Systems Inc.
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSarah Mason is a Contributor Success Specialist and digital preservation expert with nine years’ experience helping cultural institutions digitise, describe, and sustain heritage collections. She combines hands-on skills in metadata creation, imaging and workflow development with community-building for open-source projects like AtoM and Archivematica, running contributor gatherings, documentation and release coordination. A certified Library of Congress DPOE trainer and adjunct lecturer, she designs and delivers training and curricula in digital curation and research data management. Her background spans major institutions from the Bodleian to State Library Victoria and includes practical imaging and cataloguing work, giving her a rare blend of technical, outreach and client-facing expertise. Based in Greater Oxford, she is notable for translating preservation best practices into scalable workflows and active community governance for preservation tooling.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications: Visual Media, Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications: Visual Media, Literature at American UniversityOceanography, Maritime Studies and Nautical Science, Oceanography, Maritime Studies and Nautical Science at Sea Education AssociationMaster of Arts (M.A.), Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Master of Arts (M.A.), Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityMaster's degree, Information Studies, Master's degree, Information Studies at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (13)
sample-data9
web-application6
digital-preservation6
collections5
storage4
rest3
sphinx-doc2
crawler1
testing1
scrapy1
archives1
react1
documentation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sarah-mason/planets
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
EdithHalvarsson/planets
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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