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Shawn Averkamp

Manager, Metadata Services Unit New York Public Library United States of America, US

Shawn Averkamp is Manager of Metadata Services for NYPL Digital at the New York Public Library. She directs metadata strategy and production for NYPL's digital collections and collaborates on the development of digital repository, asset management, and library discovery applications. As part of NYPL Labs, she has contributed to innovations in public participation and collections reuse through explorations in linked data, metadata enrichment, and quality control. Prior to joining NYPL, she supported metadata management, digital humanities, digital preservation, crowdsourcing application development, and data curation at the University of Iowa Libraries as Data Services Librarian and Interim Head of Digital Research & Publishing and as a Metadata Librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries. She holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa.
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