Scott Weingart
Chief Technology Officer at Library of Virginia
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolScott Weingart is a technologist and historian with a decade of experience leading data-driven initiatives in the cultural and academic sectors. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at the Library of Virginia and a Resident Scholar at Dartmouth, he blends strategic technology leadership with deep domain knowledge in the humanities. He has built and directed major digital scholarship programs and centers—including launching a $10M endowed center at Notre Dame—and served as Chief Data Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities to advance research on the impact of the humanities. His background spans research affiliations at the University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon, hands-on data science consulting for institutions like Stanford and NASA, and a formal MS in Data Science from Indiana University. Known for translating scholarly questions into scalable technical infrastructure, he brings a rare mix of archival sensitivity and modern data practice to institutional transformation. Based in Richmond, VA, he often operates at the intersection of policy, funding, and technical execution—helping organizations turn cultural data into actionable insight.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's degree History of Science, Bachelor's degree History of Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (39)
digital-humanities10
creative-commons10
edtech10
linked-open-data9
text-analysis9
api8
historian8
network-analysis8
data-management7
data-mining7
ckan7
python7
jekyll6
static-site6
wikimedia6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-lib/dhlg
May 2019 - Nov 2022
The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook
Contributions:3 reviews, 280 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 6 months
guidebookhumanitiesliteracydigital-humanitiescreative-commons
littlefires/littlefires.github.io
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
a thousand little fires is a space to see and share what we create while reconciling with self-isolation.
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 28 days
firesisolationsharewhile
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