# Ed Summers Silver Spring, Maryland, USA ## Expertise * web technology, REST, linked data * digital preservation, metadata, search * opensource, standards development, community building * automated testing, agile software development, prototyping * python, javascript, ruby, perl, php, java, c, scheme ## Work History Information Technology Specialist Repository Development Center Library of Congress, Washington, DC 03/2006 - present * digital preservation and repository software design and development * lead software developer on the [National Digital Newspaper Project] [ndnp] * created a web based quality assurance tool for handling high volume image digitization projects * digital archiving of social media (Twitter) * designed and implemented the [Library of Congress Linked Data Service] [id] * contributing member to the Semantic Web Deployment Group, and Library Linked Data Incubator Group at the W3C Consultant GlueJar 11/2011 - 04/2012 * Django software development [UnglueIt] [unglueit] * Amazon AWS Deployment (EC2, RDS, Route 53) for dev, test and production * Google Books integration * Google, Facebook, Twitter social media integration * automated testing and continuous integration (Jenkins) Consultant Canary Project Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 07/2005 - 12/2005 * Python object oriented design * automated testing * implemented a reporting framework * quixote, pylucene, mysql, redhat administration Senior Software Engineer Follett Corporation, McHenry IL 05/2005 - 03/2006 * building and supporting a distributed knowledge management application * requirements gathering and project planning * web service design and implementation * ONIX metadata harvesting and ingest * Java performance tuning * automated testing * database administration * Linux/Windows systems administration Consultant Performix, Chicago IL 02/2004 - 04/2005 * object oriented design using CRC cards * refactored large Perl codebase * Perl, Apache, mod_perl, DB2 Consultant Queens Borough Public Library, New York NY 06/2004 - 05/2005 * character encoding conversion * controlled vocabulary mining * Perl data processing training Consultant Notre Dame University, South Bend IN 06/2004 - 12/2004 * training in object oriented programming and unit testing * high volume metadata harvesting * guidance and implementation search technologies * ported Java Commonn Query Language parser to Perl Applications Developer Follett Library Resources, McHenry IL 07/2002 - 05/2004 * PHP/Perl development in a Unix/Oracle environment * determined project requirements, created task lists and schedules * designed and developed library collection analysis application * unit and application level automated testing * Oracle/Apache stress testing and performance tuning * XML processing * distributed application design using SOAP/XMLRPC Senior Software Engineer CheetahMail, New York NY 02/2000 - 07/2002 * team lead in a group of 8 programmers * developed data processing infrastructure for Fortune 500 clients * designed/developed real time reporting system * creation and maintainance of web service API * in depth knowledge of SMTP and HTTP protocols * web services development * technical representative for partners and sales * networking and systems administration as required Electronic Resources Librarian Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 04/1998 - 02/2000 * SGML data processing for electronic texts for 39 universities in Virginia. * created current awareness system to alert students/faculty to new items in their field of interest. * created XML publishing system for archival finding aids. * developed serials database for locating licensed fulltext. * III/OCLC metadata management integration Visiting Assistant Professor University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL 08/1996 - 03/1998 * web/database development (ASP/SQLServer) * collection development and cataloging in Sociology and Political Science * preservation of 19th century criminology pamphlet collection * managed reference services in the Social Science Library ## Selected Publications * [MJ no more: Using Concurrent Wikipedia Edit Spikes with Social Network Plausibility Checks for Breaking News Detection] [mj]. 2013. * [Linking Things on the Web: A Pragmatic Examination of Linked Data] [linking-things], 2013. * Key Choices in the Design of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). * [Library Linked Data Final Report] [lld], W3C Incubator Group Report, October 2011. * [SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer] [skos], W3C Working Group Note, August 18th, 2008. http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/ * [LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data] [lcsh-skos-ld], Proceedings of the International Conference on DublinCore and Metadata Applications, 2008. * [Following Your Nose to the Web of Data] [nose], Information Standards Quarterly, 2008 * [Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester] [harvesters], Ariadne, no. 38, Jan 2004. * Cyril: Expanding the Horizons of MARC21, Library Hi Tech, v. 22, no. 1, 2004. * A Consortial Approach to Cooperative Cataloging and Authority Control: The Virtual Library of Virginia Experience, Resource Sharing and Information Networks, v. 16, no. 1, 2003, p. 33-53. * [Paying Homage to Perl (PHP)] [homage], The Perl Review, January, 2003. * MARC it your way: MARC.pm, Information Technology and Libraries, March, 2002. * Comprehensive Access to Periodicals: A Database Solution, Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services, v. 24, no. 2, 2000, p. 33-44. * Show Me the Metadata, Against the Grain, v.11, no.1, 1998. * Gateways to Social Work/Welfare on the Net, C&RL News, v.59, no. 3, 1998, p.163-167. ## Education * MLS, School of Communications, Information and Library Science, Rutgers University, 1995-1996 * BA English and American Literature, Rutgers University, 1987-1991. [ndnp]: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ "Chronicling America" [id]: http://id.loc.gov/ [lld]: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-20111025/ "Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report" [skos]: http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer "SKOS Simple Knowledge Oranization System Primer" [lcsh-skos-ld]: http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/view/916 [nose]: http://inkdroid.org/journal/2008/01/04/following-your-nose-to-the-web-of-data/ [harvesters]: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/summers [homage]: http://www.theperlreview.com/articles/php.html [unglueit]: http://unglueit.com [mj]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4702 [linking-things]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4591