William Cowan
Senior Consultant at Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Cowan is a senior consultant and seasoned library technology leader with over 12 years of experience building and managing digital library, archive, and cultural heritage software. He specializes in Omeka (Classic, S, and Spotlight) and Fedora-based digital repositories, combining hands-on PHP, web, and database engineering with strategic architecture and team leadership. At Indiana University he led development of complex digital asset services and specialized research tools—work that spans video segmentation and annotation to large-scale repository ingestion. Now at Green Darner Consulting he designs custom online exhibits and integrations for libraries and museums, translating archival requirements into polished public-facing experiences. Known for bridging scholarly workflows and enterprise-grade systems, he brings both academic sensitivity (ABD in English) and decades of enterprise systems architecture to public humanities projects. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he blends pragmatic engineering with deep domain expertise in digital scholarship.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ABD, English, ABD, English at Indiana University BloomingtonBA, History, BA, History at Yale University
Github Skills (21)
omeka10
shortcode9
connected9
thumbnails9
plugin8
insert5
streaming4
iipimage4
video-streaming3
act2
branding2
pdf1
viewer1
mirador1
iiif1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IUBLibTech/KalturaVideoOmekaPlugin
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 19 pushes in 12 days
wgcowan/ConnectedCarousel
Oct 2014 - Sep 2018
Repository for Omeka shortcode plugin that creates a connected carousel of file images, with thumbnails above that can be used to navigate to the full sized images below.
Contributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
shortcodethumbnailsomekanavigatecarousel
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