Tim Buckingham
Assistant Archivist at City of Somerville
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Buckingham is an Assistant Archivist with a decade of experience building and stewarding digital collections, metadata schemas, and user-facing archival services for public and scholarly audiences. He blends archival practice and technical tooling—authoring scripts and platforms to process, preserve, and distribute cultural heritage content—for organizations ranging from municipal archives to international digital humanities projects. Tim’s background in classical philology and an MLIS informs a strong focus on interoperability (including EAC-CPF taxonomy work) and researcher-centered access, while his history supporting global users of Tibetan Buddhist materials highlights an ability to translate niche scholarly needs into scalable digital workflows. Based in Somerville, MA, he is committed to collaborations that surface new humanities insights through robust data practices and thoughtful preservation.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Arts, Classical Philology, Master of Arts, Classical Philology at Tufts UniversityBachelor of Arts, Classics and Classical Languages, Bachelor of Arts, Classics and Classical Languages at Colby CollegeMaster of Library & Information Science, Library and Information Science, 4.0, Master of Library & Information Science, Library and Information Science, 4.0 at Simmons University
Latin, Greek
Github Skills (12)
xml10
latin10
linguistics10
tuple10
pdl6
science3
plug1
conversions1
jquery1
browser1
tei1
image-annotation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TDBuck/GardenerPrototype
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
perseids-project/GardenerPrototype
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:51 pushes, 2 branches, 8 comments in 1 month
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