Product Owner, Center for Open Science
June 2022 – Present
Responsible for supporting the Open Science Framework through effective and efficient management of product development activities and building and maintaining strong relationships with users and stakeholders. Works with developers and technicians to understand the use cases and workflows, manage product feedback on features, improvements, and bugs, works with new communities to build strong relationships, and launches new interfaces with stakeholders and customers.
Independent Library Consultant
Various, January 2019 – Present
Provide support and guidance for various digital library data and archival projects. Clients have included the University of Virginia, Princeton University, Penn State University, and Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) and involved database development and management, product development and support, metadata creation and remediation, digital project management, and data aggregation.
Adjunct Instructor
Clarion University, Department of Library Science, January 2015 – Present
Instructor of graduate level course on digital libraries. Developed syllabus, lectures, assignments, and delivered course content through the Desire2Learn online course software.
Interim Network Manager
Digital Public Library of America, August 2018 – November 2018
Managed member relationships for the Digital Public Library of America’s 29-member Hub Network, including communication and planning with two governing councils.
- Developed overall communication and outreach plan to increase membership engagement.
- Facilitated meetings, served as liaison to 5 nascent DPLA Hubs in the process of forming.
- Continued to perform duties as Data Services Coordinator.
Data Services Coordinator
Digital Public Library of America, August 2014 – November 2018
Planned and implemented data aggregation activities with more than 40 external partners, sharing more than 30 million records, while managing overall data structure and quality strategy.
- Worked closely with developers and technologists to design and build systems and software to harvest, transform, analyze, and enrich metadata from partners.
- Planned and managed initiatives to increase the quality of collection content, particularly data robusticity, standardization, and interoperability.
- Served as product owner in an agile development process.
- Developed guidelines, documentation, and training for external partners.
- Convened working groups to discuss and develop solutions for DPLA metadata strategy.
- Performed quality control and data analysis on the corpus of DPLA metadata and provided feedback to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Worked independently in a distributed team environment, utilizing multiple communication methods (chat, video, email, etc.) to work effectively with colleagues.
Digital Archivist
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, May 2011 – July 2013
Head of archival activities for an ever-growing corpus of born digital content within the holdings of the Small Special Collections Library.
- Worked with multiple staff groups including librarians, archivists, and technologists to create new standards and implement new tools.
- Developed workflow for the inventory, accessioning, and primary processing of born-digital materials from a variety of legacy media formats using both commercial and open-source tools.
- Led archival staff in planning for the integration of an archival data management system through analysis of EAD and MARC metadata and standards such as ISAD-G and CIDOC CRM.
Digital Initiatives Librarian
J.Y. Joyner Library Digital Collections at East Carolina University, January 2008 – April 2011
Planned, coordinated and established priorities for digital library initiatives at East Carolina University.
- Responsible for high-level digital collection infrastructure, metadata standards, interface usability and design, and operating procedures.
- Managed multiple projects while supervising staff, students and volunteers.
- Led development of the library’s digital collection repository, Joyner Library Digital Collections, a METS-based repository utilizing DC, MODS, MIX, and PREMIS.
- Directed the development efforts for the DSpace institutional repository for East Carolina University, The ScholarShip.
- Digital collection project Seeds of Change: the Evolution of Post-War Eastern North Carolina, 2010 recipient of the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services from the RUSA division of ALA.
Digital Collections Librarian
Digital Collections and Research (DCR) at University of Maryland, June 2005 – January 2008
Provided primary support and coordination for digital projects.
- Developed and implemented digitization standards and workflows.
- Provided primary project support for multiple, cross-institution digital repository projects.
- Designed user interface and interaction for multiple repository projects.
- Provided project management for The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, a TEI XML-based repository of texts.
Graduate Assistant
Digital Collections and Research (DCR) at University of Maryland, January 2005 – May 2005
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at University of Maryland, September 2004 – December 2005
Provided project management for The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, a TEI XML-based repository of texts. Duties included encoding and proofing TEI documents, creating HTML and CSS for project web sites, and working on new interface developments.
Library Intern / Part-time Librarian
National Public Radio, January 2004 – January 2005
Provided reference services for writing and research staff in fast-paced environment both through an internship position and continuing on a part-time basis.sultah
Master’s in Library Science
The University of Maryland, May 2005
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Independent Study, May – August 2004
- National Public Radio Internship, January – May 2004
- National Geographic Archives Internship, September – December 2004
- University of Maryland, College of Information Studies’ Dean’s Award, May 2005.
Bachelor of Arts in English
The Pennsylvania State University, May 2001
- Minor in Anthropology
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Publications Office Internship, June – August 2000
- University of Leeds, Study Abroad Program, January – June 2000
Continuing Education
- 100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp for 2022 (Udemy, in progress).
- Become a WordPress Developer (Udemy, Fall 2020).
- Transforming and Querying XML with XSLT and XQuery (Library Juice Academy, March 2019)
- Introduction to R for Libraries (ALCTS Webinar Series, May 9, 16, 30, 2018)
- Printed Books after 1800 (Rare Book School, June 11-17, 2012).
- FRBR Workshop with Bob Maxwell (UVa Year of Metadata Workshop, November 15, 2011)
- Computer Forensics with FRED (Digital Intelligence, August 8-9, 2011).
- Born Digital Materials: Theory and Practice (Rare Book School, July 25-29, 2011)
- LITA Web Course: Creating Library Web Services, Mashups and APIs (November 12-19, 2010)
- Introduction to ASP.NET (Pitt County Community College, Winter 2008/2009)
- NC ECHO Grant Writing Workshop (NC ECHO, October 31, 2008)
- Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: PREMIS Tutorial (Library of Congress, June 21, 2007)
- Building the Human-Computer Interface (University of Maryland Graduate School, College of Information Studies, Fall 2006)
- Developing Best Project Management Practices for IT Projects (LITA National Forum, October 26-27, 2006)
- Doing Digital History Workshop (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, October 26-28, 2005)
- Scanning for Print or Web (Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, August 31, 2005)
- Experience with designing and implementing metadata schemas and bibliographic standards including, MARC, METS, MODS, MIX, PREMIS, TEI, EAD, Dublin Core, VRA Core
- Proficient in encoding and query languages and standards including XML, HTML and CSS. Demonstrated project experience with Ruby, Python, XSLT. Familiar with Java and C# programming languages
- Extensive experience with OpenRefine to develop data analysis workflows and techniques
- Experience with content management systems and ILS systems including Fedora, Dspace, Omeka, Hyku/Hyrax, ContentDM, SirsiDynix Horizon
- Extensive experience with OpenRefine to develop data analysis workflows and techniques
- Through knowledge of the software development process and different project management methodologies
- Experience using digital forensic software and hardware including FRED forensic workstation, Forensic Toolkit and Imager, Tableau Imager, Norton Ghost
- Skilled in the use of design and editing software including Adobe PhotoShop, Acrobat, and InDesign
- Experience using and training others to use scanning equipment and interfaces by Epson, Microtek, PhaseOne, Silverfast, and Nikon
Library and Professional Committees
- Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group, Metadata Working Group: January 2017 – Present
- Chair of the Metadata Application Clearinghouse Work Group: January – August 2018
- DACS Principles Revision Working Group: August 2016 – March 2017
- Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata Working Group: January – August 2016
- Europeana Data Quality Committee Member: January – December 2017
- Research Assistant to the International Council on Archives’ Experts Group on Archival Description: October 2012 – Present
- LITA JPEG 2000 Interest Group co-chair: June 2010 – October 2011.
- Faculty Information Technology Review Committee at East Carolina University: May 2010 – April 2011
- LITA 2009 National Forum Planning Committee Member: March 2008 – March 2010
- Library Faculty Research Fund Committee at the University of Maryland Libraries: July 2007 – January 2008
- Reviewer of conference paper proposals for the annual Digital Humanities Conference: 2007 – 2012
- Organizing Committee for the digital library symposium The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium: September 27 – 28, 2005
- Initiator of the Day of Digital Archives in both 2011 and 2012, an annual international collaborative project to document a single day in the life of those who work with, steward, create, or preserve digital archives
Training and Educational Activities
- Co-instructor of Fundamentals of Metadata, offered by ALCTS online, January-February 2019
- Developed and co-presented Metadata QA workshops for DPLAfest (April 19, 2017) and DLF Forum, October 26, 2017
- Co-presented day-long workshop on metadata for the Visual Resources Association’s Summer Educational Institute, June 10, 2015
- Presented Management of Incoming Born-Digital Special Collections for the Association of Southeastern Research Library’s (ASERL) digital preservation webinar series on April 16, 2013
- Organized Roadmap to JPEG2000 webinar for LITA with JPEG2000 IG co-chair and presented “Evaluating JPEG2000 for Cultural Heritage Organizations” on September 13, 2011
- Co-developed and facilitated half-day workshop as part of the AIMS grant project for SAA 2011 entitled “CREW: Collecting Repositories and E-records Workshop”
- Developed and facilitated full-day workshop for the November 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference on “Digital Imaging and Scanning Workflows”
- Developed half-day scanning workshops for UM Libraries special collections department in October 2006 and August 2007 covering properties of digital images, metrics for evaluation, and best practices for capture
- Managed training project to create a digital collection of transcribed, searchable Civil War era letters helping participants with metadata and description standards, encoding design and templates and interface design
- Instructed “Introduction to XML and the TEI” workshops with Susan Schreibman for the UM Libraries August 2005 and at The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium 27-28 September 2005
Professional Volunteer Experiences
- Library Consultant at the Erie Maritime Museum: October 2013 – August 2014
- Web and Social Media Coordinator, Charlottesville Derby Dames: January 2012 – April 2013
- Volunteer, National Geographic Society Archives: September 2004 – March 2005
- President, Special Library Association (SLA), Student Chapter at the University of Maryland: May 2004 – May2005; Marketing Coordinator: October 2003 – April 2004
Articles, Book Chapters, and Edited Proceedings
Allison-Bunnell, Jodi, Maureen Cresci Callahan, Gretchen Gueguen, John Kunze, Krystyna K. Matusiak, and Gregory Wiedeman, “Lost Without Context: Representing Relationships between Archival Materials in the Digital Environment,” in The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery, edited by Mark A. Matienzo and Dinah Handel, 55-72. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, October 2021. https://doi.org/10.25740/gg453cv6438.
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Metadata Quality at Scale: An exploration of metadata quality control at the Digital Public Library of America.” Journal of Digital Media Management. 7:2 (2019):115-126.
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Appraising and Acquiring Born-Digital Collections: An Introduction.” Journal of Digital Media Management. 2:4 (2014):337-348.
Pitti, Daniel, Vitor Mowlac, Claire Sibille-de Grimouard and Gretchen Gueguen. “Towards an International Conceptual Model for Archival Description.” The American Archivist. 76:2 (2013): 567-584. https://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.76.2.p071x02401282qx2
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Archive 360° Roudtable: The Practice of Data Curation.” Archive. 3 (2013): http://www.archivejournal.net/issue/3/three-sixty/.
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups.” Journal of Archival Organization. 8:2 (2010): 96-109. [Link to pre-print: http://thescholarship.ecu.edu//handle/10342/3011 ]
Gueguen, Gretchen and Ann Hanlon. “A Collaborative Workflow for Digitization of Unique Materials.” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 35:5 (2009): 468-474. [Link to pre-print: http://thescholarship.ecu.edu//handle/10342/3011]
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Featured Collection: Joyner Library Digital Collections.” D-Lib Magazine. 15:7/8 (2009). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july09/07featured-collection.html
Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen. “Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources.” A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2008. 577-96. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405148641/9781405148641.xml&chunk.id=ss1-6-13&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-6-13&brand=9781405148641_brand
Schreibman, Susan, Jennifer Roper and Gretchen Gueguen. “Cross-collection Searching: A Pandora’s Box or the Holy Grail?” Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23:1 (2008) 13-25.
Gueguen, Gretchen, and Ann Hanlon, eds. The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Publication. University of Maryland Libraries. March 2006.
Peer-reviewed and Invited Presentations and Posters
Gueguen, Gretchen. CC-PLUS: Consortia Collaboration on a Platform for Library Usage Statistics (poster). Code4Lib (Pittsburgh, PA, March 2020).
Gueguen, Gretchen. Consortial Hyku for Open Educational Resources. Samvera Connect (St. Louis, MO, October 24, 2019). https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MntUWa8hETCxu34IT6UXuYMEiRhDWW3Tse-2a2X_JqA/
Gueguen, Gretchen. Never-Ending Migration. ALCTS Interest Group Meeting, ALA Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, June 23, 2017). https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/151AoipCT8tkGplNwMGEQhwDUpBCw1xyloQjiICaFrqg
Gueguen, Gretchen. Linked Data: Uses and Users. Linked Pasts Symposium (Madrid, Spain, December 14. 2016). https://www.slideshare.net/guegueng/linked-data-uses-and-users
Gueguen, Gretchen. Open Transformation: A DPLA Story. Society of American Archivists 2015 Annual Meeting (Cleveland, OH, August 22, 2015). https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B9NDn9yUtiCSbTN5NU1LLUNsNWs
Gueguen, Gretchen. Collecting in the Moment. Rare Book and Manuscripts Section, ALA Pre-conference (Minneapolis, MN, June 24, 2013). http://www.slideshare.net/guegueng/rbms
Glendon, Ivey, and Gueguen, Gretchen. Evaluating PREMIS in an Academic Research Library. Association of College and Research Libraries conference. (Indianapolis, IN, April 13, 2013). http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2013/papers/GlendonGueguen_Evaluating.pdf
Gueguen, Gretchen. Do Digital Archivists Dream of Electronic Records? Scholar’s Lab Speaker Series. (Charlottesville, VA, February 13, 2013). http://www.slideshare.net/guegueng/do-digital-archivists-dream-of-electronic-records
Gueguen, Gretchen. The AIMS Framework Approach to Born-Digital Archives at UVa. Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) 2012 Spring Conference (Cape May, NJ, April 13, 2012). http://gretchengueguen.com/professional/GueguenMARACs12.ppt
Matienzo, Mark, Gueguen, Gretchen, Wilson, Simon and Chan, Peter. Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories: Turning Challenges into Byte-Size Opportunities. Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2011 Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, August 27, 2011). http://born-digital-archives.blogspot.com/2011/09/aimssaa-part-two-saa-session-502.html
Gueguen Gretchen. Digital Curation, Round One. ACRL’s Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) Pre-conference (Baton Rouge, LA, June 22, 2011). http://gretchengueguen.com/professional/DigitalCuration.ppt
Gueguen, Gretchen. Just Keep Clicking Till You Find It: Building a Library Digital Collection with Browsing in Mind. Library Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum (Salt Lake City, UT, October 2, 2009). http://gretchengueguen.com/professional/JustKeepClicking.ppt
Gueguen, Gretchen. The Sustainable Digital Library: An Ecosystem (poster session). Librarians’ Association at UNC Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) 2009 Research Forum (Chapel Hill, NC, May 20, 2009). http://gretchengueguen.com/professional/poster2.pdf
Gueguen, Gretchen and Ann Hanlon. Crowdsourcing Digitization: Harnessing Workflows to Increase Output. Library Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum (Cincinnati, OH, October 16-18 2008). http://www.slideshare.net/guegueng/crowdsourcing-digitization-harnessing-workflows-to-increase-output-presentation
Gueguen, Gretchen, and Jennifer Roper. Not so Different After All-Creating Access To Diverse Objects in Digital Repositories. Library Information & Technology Association (LITA) National Forum (Nashville, TN, October 27-29, 2006). http://gretchengueguen.com/professional/lita06.ppt
Schreibman, Susan, and Gretchen Gueguen. teiPublisher and The Thomas MacGreevy Archive (poster session). The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium (University of Maryland, September 29, 2005).
Schreibman, Susan, Gretchen Gueguen, Amit Kumar, and Ann Saddlemyer. Letters and Lacunae: Editing an Electronic Scholarly Edition of Correspondence. Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH)/Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Conference (Victoria, British Columbia, June 15-18, 2005). http://mustard.tapor.uvic.ca:8080/cocoon/ach_abstracts/proof/paper_203_schreibman.pdf
Whitepapers and Technical Reports
DPLA MAP Working Group. Introduction to the DPLA Metadata Application Profile, version 5.0. Digital Public Library of America, 2017. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kMxXgFrGwu3i7LBLFOj6VZRQFuQzqkHk/view
DPLA Metadata Quality Working Group. DPLA Metadata Quality Guidelines. Digital Public Library of America, 2017. http://bit.ly/dpla-metadata-qual
DPLA Archival Description Working Group. Aggregating and Representing Collections in the Digital Public Library of America. Digital Public Library of America, 2016. http://bit.ly/dplaCollections
AIMS Working Group. AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship. University of Virginia, 2012. http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/whitepaper/AIMS_final.pdf
Book Reviews
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Review of Evaluating and Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections.” Literary and Linguistic Computing. 28:3 (2013): 482-4. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/10/26/llc.fqs043.full
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Review of Digital Curation: A How-to-Do-It Manual.” Journal of Web Librarianship. 5:2 (2011): 161. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19322909.2011.567867
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Review of Special Collections 2.0: New Technologies for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archival Collections.” Journal of Web Librarianship. 5: 1 (2011): 72-73.https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2011.544560
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Review of Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web.” Journal of Web Librarianship. 4: 2 (2010): 292. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2010.488174
Gueguen, Gretchen. “Review of: Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation.” Journal of Web Librarianship. 3:2 (2009): 159-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322900902821000
- Project Lead for PALCI on the IMLS-funded Scaling Up a Collaborative Consortial Institutional Repository, partnering with PALNI (the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana), to explore, develop, and pilot an open source, multi-tenant, consortial institutional repository (IR). Using the Samvera-based Hyku repository, the partners will develop a working model for cross-consortial collaboration to deliver ultra-low cost scholarly repository services.
- Member of User Experience design team for Hydra-in-a-Box, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences. Participants from the Digital Public Library of America, Stanford University, and Duraspace partnered to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain. The UX team performed user research and developed requirements, personas, and wireframs for the resulting Hyku repository.
- Digital Archivist for the University of Virginia for the final 6 months of Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The University of Virginia Library has joined with Stanford University, the University of Hull, and Yale University process and preserve thirteen born-digital collections of noteworthy individuals and/or organizations in order to develop best practices, workflows, and technical guidance for stewardship in this new frontier for collecting institutions. Awarded the 2012 National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group Award.
- Primary investigator of $200,000 2009-2012 NC ECHO funded grant for Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access, a collaborative project with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the State Library of North Carolina to digitize some 380,000 pages of state government documents using the Internet Archive’s Scribe technology.
- Oversee implementation of production and website design for 2008-2010 NC ECHO funded grant: Seeds of Change: the Evolution of Post-War Eastern North Carolina, 2010 recipient of the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services from the RUSA division of ALA.
- Library Faculty Research Fund. Developing and Evaluating a Matrix for Searching on a Collection with Multiple Parts and Delivering that Content in a Meaningful Way. Susan Schreibman, Jennifer Roper, and Gretchen Gueguen. December 2005. University of Maryland, College of Information Studies’ Dean’s Award for Designing Search Parameters and Interface for the Letters of George Yeats and Thomas MacGreevy (A Collection of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive). May 2005.
- Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing Travel Bursary Award for the 2006 Joint Conference of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. June 2005.
Project Controls Administrator
Erie Insurance, August 2013 – Present
Provided project support for Information Technology projects for a Fortune 500 insurance company. Duties included project scheduling, cost plan and budget management, work planning, and project documentation. Experience with both waterfall and agile project methodologies and project planning and financial analysis in a business setting. Managed as many as ten projects simultaneously ranging in budget from $100,000 to $3.6 million.
Owner/Designer
Dear Reader Press, October 2011 – 2013
Owner and designer of a small online business designing wedding invitations and other stationery products.
Publications Specialist
Horne Engineering Services, Inc., September 2001 – May 2003
Member of the publication team for a small engineering company that created publications for both print and web, using both in-house and off-set printing. Responsibilities for editing and layout were shared within the department for client projects, official company publications, advertising and marketing materials, the company web site, and a small database of photos for company promotional use.