Sarah Melton
Head Of Digital Scholarship at Endangered Data Week
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Melton is Head of Digital Scholarship at Boston College Libraries with over a decade of experience designing sustainable digital research and pedagogy programs and leading cross-disciplinary librarian teams. She combines hands-on technical work—contributing Jekyll-based lessons on data cleaning, clustering with scikit-learn, and interactive text games—with strategic stewardship of open access, civic data literacy, and scholarly communication initiatives. A longtime organizer and mentor (Mozilla Open Leaders, Endangered Data Week), she builds training resources and coordinates large cohorts to amplify reuse and preservation of public data. Her background in public history and digital projects gives her a rare ability to translate archival and humanities needs into reproducible, pedagogical tooling and metadata-driven infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Classical Civilization, B.A., Classical Civilization at Emory UniversityM.A., American Studies, M.A., American Studies at The University of Alabama
Github Skills (9)
scikit-learn10
pandas10
python10
data-management10
scikit10
jupyter-notebook9
data-mining8
webscraping8
api5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
programminghistorian/jekyll
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 150 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sarah appears to be contributing to lessons and examples within the Jekyll-based static site. Their work includes creating and modifying lessons related to data cleaning, common similarity measures, and crowdsourced data normalization using Pandas. The user also published a lesson about clustering with Scikit-learn and interactive text games using Twine, indicating a focus on creating and publishing educational content. Their contributions also involve merging branches related to content and lesson updates.
pythonstatic-sitedata-miningscrapingopenscience
BCDigSchol/DSIncubator
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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