Tyler Thorsted
Digital Preservation Manager
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Thorsted is a Digital Preservation Manager with nine years of focused experience preserving cultural heritage and managing large-scale digitization programs. He leads digital preservation efforts at Brigham Young University after a decade managing petabytes of archival material for the Church History Department, combining expertise in imaging, file format documentation, and prepress workflows. Tyler brings practical production roots from print and PDF specialization into digital stewardship, bridging analog capture and sustainable digital curation. Based in Orem, Utah, he is particularly interested in documenting file formats to ensure long-term access—a detail reflected in his GitHub focus that underscores a methodical, standards-oriented approach to preservation.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Davis High SchoolAS, Communication, General, AS, Communication, General at Dixie State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Technology Management Art & Visual Communications emphasis, Bachelor of Science (BS), Technology Management Art & Visual Communications emphasis at Utah Valley University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (76)
file-validation10
audio-files10
media-library9
digital-preservation9
vorbis9
audio8
validation8
parser8
signature8
pdf-files8
java8
file-format7
magic-numbers7
mime-types7
transcoding7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thorsted/PRONOM_Research
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:132 pushes in 3 years 4 months
thorsted/Rosetta.MDExtractor-script-plugins
Jan 2020 - Nov 2024
Repository for Rosetta MDExtractor script plugins and related information
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 10 months
rosettaplugin
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