Ted Habermann
Co-Founder at Metadata Game Changers
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTed Habermann is a seasoned data management and metadata engineering leader with a Ph.D. in Geophysics and over three decades shaping how Earth science data are described, shared, and discovered. As Co-Founder of Metadata Game Changers and former Director of Earth Science at The HDF Group, he has driven adoption of interoperable formats and tools—from his early FreeForm language and GeoVu CD-ROM work to modern HDF-based data services. At NOAA he introduced integrated geospatial databases and internet mapping across the agency, and he has co-authored practical guidance on ISO metadata standards for major programs like GOES-R, NASA ESDIS, and WMO. He combines deep technical inventiveness with standards diplomacy, participating in ISO TC/211 to help evolve metadata practice internationally. An early web adopter who installed NOAA’s first web server, he pairs historical perspective with ongoing, applied leadership in metadata tooling and enterprise documentation. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Ted brings rare continuity across research, operations, education, and standards that few data architects can match.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics at University of Colorado at BoulderBS, BS at Beloit College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
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edifact10
schema-validation10
xslt10
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xml-schema10
schematron10
xml10
doi9
mdeditor9
datacite9
dialect8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Metadata-Game-Changers/DataCiteFacets
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Collecting data from DataCite facets
Contributions:58 commits, 21 PRs, 43 pushes in 8 months
pythondatacitecollectingdatacite-apimetadata
tedhabermann/MetadataPaths
Jan 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
dialectspathmetadata
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