Timothy Thompson
Manager, Metadata Services Unit
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Thompson is an experienced metadata and information professional with 12 years building and leading linked-data and metadata initiatives in research libraries and enterprise settings. Currently Manager of Yale Library’s Metadata Services Unit, he has driven applied metadata research, entity resolution projects using AI (text embeddings and knowledge graphs), and strategic linked-data partnerships for discovery platforms like Yale’s LUX. Previously he led ontology and data modeling at Capital One, bringing enterprise-grade standards and stakeholder-aligned semantic models to financial-data environments. His background blends deep cataloging expertise (including Spanish/Portuguese collections and cooperative cataloging programs) with formal training in data science and library science. Timothy’s work often sits at the intersection of scholarship, software, and operational metadata workflows—an uncommon mix that helps translate scholarly needs into production-ready linked-data systems. Based in New Haven, he also brings international research experience from a Boren Fellowship in Brazil that informs his multilingual and cross-cultural approach to digital collections.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Arts (MA) English Language and Literature, Master of Arts (MA) English Language and Literature at Boston CollegeBachelor of Arts English (Honors) and Classics, Bachelor of Arts English (Honors) and Classics at Calvin University
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (146)
csv10
xquery10
nested10
bigchaindb10
xslt10
xml-schema10
wikipedia9
ontologies9
jar9
marc9
avro9
gwt9
json-data9
svm9
quantile9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
timathom/timathom.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:141 commits, 199 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
timathom/marc2linkedart
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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