Hi! My name is Robin Camille Davis. I am a MLIS student at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, set to graduate in May 2012. My academic focus is in data curation in the humanities, the preservation of digital objects, and user experience design and research.
I grew up in northern San Diego, CA, and have also sampled life in Rhode Island, Paris, and D.C. Right now I’m on a 24-hour Champaign diet, and loving it! At any given hour you will find me in a coffeeshop, at an aquarium, on a bicycle, or dreaming about dictionaries.
Quick résumé:
Education
MLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
BA, English Literature with focus in early modern and medieval, Brown University, 2010
Courses in art history and culinary geography, Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), spring 2009
BA, English Literature with focus in early modern and medieval, Brown University, 2010
Courses in art history and culinary geography, Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), spring 2009
Selected work
Data Curation Education Program in the Humanities: Champaign, IL, 2010-12. UX design & research. Research assistantship.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Digital Services Division: Washington, DC, 2011. Web preservation. Internship.
Center for Multimedia Excellence: Champaign, IL, 2010. Survey coordinator.
Scholarly Technology Group at Brown: Providence, RI, 2008-10. UI and graphic designer.
Carlsbad City Library: Carlsbad, CA, 2010. City documents collection assessment. Internship.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Digital Services Division: Washington, DC, 2011. Web preservation. Internship.
Center for Multimedia Excellence: Champaign, IL, 2010. Survey coordinator.
Scholarly Technology Group at Brown: Providence, RI, 2008-10. UI and graphic designer.
Carlsbad City Library: Carlsbad, CA, 2010. City documents collection assessment. Internship.
Selected skills
Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery; usability testing methods
Technical: XML, XSLT, RelaxNG, Python
Creative: Adobe CS 5 Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Data: relational database design; SQL; logical modeling; Microsoft Access, Visio
Standards: familiar with Dublin Core, TEI, METS, MODS, MIX, CDWA, PREMIS, OAI-PMH, MARC
Languages: French (proficient); Spanish (basic); Old, Middle English, Latin (academic interest)
Technical: XML, XSLT, RelaxNG, Python
Creative: Adobe CS 5 Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Data: relational database design; SQL; logical modeling; Microsoft Access, Visio
Standards: familiar with Dublin Core, TEI, METS, MODS, MIX, CDWA, PREMIS, OAI-PMH, MARC
Languages: French (proficient); Spanish (basic); Old, Middle English, Latin (academic interest)
Other things written by me
Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites on The Bigger Picture blog (mentioned on Library of Congress’ The Signal blog, 1, 2)
Saving the Smithsonian’s Web on The Bigger Picture blog (mentioned on RAINbyte and the SAA listserv)
Saving the Smithsonian’s Web on The Bigger Picture blog (mentioned on RAINbyte and the SAA listserv)
Your Digital Memorial on Core77 blog (contribution)
Thing written about me
Davis awarded second place in book collecting contest on the GSLIS news blog
You can download my full résumé or CV as PDFs.
