About me
I'm the cultural heritage data engineer on Yale's LUX platform, a native LOD cross-collections discovery service. I came to Yale in the summer of 2022, after eight years working at the Getty Provenance Index, a program of the Getty Research Institute. My background is art history, specifically provenance, and I graduated from Pratt Institute's dual-Master's in Art History and MLIS program in 2014.
My job at Yale is what it sounds like--about half cultural heritage knowledge, half data engineering, and where those things intersect. I work with the collecting units at Yale to get their data into the Linked.art format for ingestion into LUX. I'm also an engineer on the LUX ETL pipeline, and work in conjunction with other members of the LUX development team. My supervisor and I are in an unusual position at Yale in that we are in the office of the vice-provost for Collections, and are not in one of the units. We're a true cross-collections department, as Yale is focused on thinking about the cultural heritage we steward in a holistic fashion.
Talk to me about:
data cleaning, reconciliation, ETL pipelines, LOD, Linked.art, or non-work stuff: pizza, dogs, running, the San Francisco 49ers, punk/emo/indie rock.