Dorothea Salo

Experience and education

Experience

  • Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin, 2007–present
    • Redesigned and taught LIS 644, “Digital tools, trends, and debates”
    • Designed and taught topics course LIS 855, “Digital curation”
  • Instructor, University of Illinois, 2010
    • Designed and taught LIS 590CDO, “Topics in Collection Development”
  • Digital Repository Librarian, Research Services Librarian, University of Wisconsin, 2007–2011
    • Co-led multi-unit data-curation service, including NSF data-management plan consulting and training
    • Advised individuals on copyright-related reuse and permissions questions
    • Managed MINDS@UW institutional repository
    • Doubled MINDS@UW item count annually three years running
    • Promoted MINDS@UW to faculty, recruited content, and trained faculty and librarians in MINDS@UW use
    • Performed batch imports and document format conversions
    • Chaired local MINDS@UW technical committee, system-wide repository task force
    • Served on campus/library research-computing, scholarly-communication, and electronic thesis and dissertation committees
    • Redesigned MINDS@UW user interface for upgrade to DSpace 1.5.1
    • Developed conversion processes, XML schemas, and code for shift from DSpace to Fedora
  • Digital Repository Services Librarian, George Mason University, 2005–2007
    • Managed Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS), as well as local journal-hosting initiative
    • Promoted MARS to faculty, recruited content, and trained faculty in MARS use
    • Wrote MARS policy and usage guidelines
    • Checked copyright status on submissions; handled MARS content licensing
    • Redesigned MARS’s DSpace user interface for attractiveness and usability
    • Performed batch imports and data format conversions
    • Managed MARS server; performed testing and upgrades
  • Student worker, Digital Content Group, University of Wisconsin Libraries: Spring 2005
    • Updated and improved TEI markup for digitized print books
  • Proprietor, Text Artisan Guild: 2003–2007
    • Edited DRM specification for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
    • Performed technical review on books and specifications
    • Converted data from Quark to XML and PHP arrays
    • Consulted on workflow re-engineering projects
    • Spoke for various academic and technical groups
    • Architected, designed, and built internet and intranet sites
  • Project Assistant 2, IS Data Services Specialist: Puerto Rican Census Project, University of Wisconsin Survey Center, 2002–2004
    • Maintained custom Visual Basic programming and SQL queries for Microsoft Access data-entry and data-verification databases
    • Performed automated and manual checks on data integrity and compliance
    • Entered data from microfilm in accordance with complex compliance rules
    • Documented data format and data-management procedures
  • XML/OEB Developer: OverDrive Inc., 2001–2002
    • Converted books from Quark XPress to OEBPS-compliant XML/CSS
    • Trained staff on XML
    • Evaluated and prototyped new workflows and conversion systems
    • Represented company on Open eBook Publication Structure Working Group
  • Electronic Publishing Specialist, Typesetter, Training and Procedures Specialist: Impressions Book and Journal Services, 1999–2001
    • Designed and documented SGML and XML Document Type Definitions for dictionaries, primary and secondary historical works, and scholarly/scientific books and journals
    • Engineered front-end and back-end workflows for SGML/XML-based book production
    • Converted data from various formats to SGML/XML and electronic books
    • Typeset books and journals on Penta system
    • Trained staff and wrote internal documentation on various technical topics
    • Represented company to Open eBook Forum
  • Teaching Assistant, Spanish: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997–98
    • Taught first- and second-year college Spanish
    • Planned lessons, helped write exams, created in-class activities, met with individual students, graded student work
  • Administrative Assistant: Pharmaceutical Product Development, 1994
  • Computer-lab Consultant: University Computing Services, Indiana University, 1993
  • Education

    • MLS, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    • MA, Spanish: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    • BA with Highest Distinction, Comparative Literature and Spanish: Indiana University-Bloomington.
    • High school diploma: W.G. Enloe High School, Raleigh NC
    • Selected honors and awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, National Merit Scholar, Valmai Fenster Award (for outstanding promise of exceptional scholarly contribution to the [library] profession), Outstanding Student Scholar Finalist, Beta Phi Mu, C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award.

    Additional training

    • Summer Institute on Humanities Data Curation, University of Illinois, 2009
    • Summer Institute on Data Curation, University of Illinois, 2008
    • Copyright Law and Integrated Access to Digital Course Materials, Georgia Harper, University of Maryland University College, 2008
    • Orphan Works, Gigi Sohn, University of Maryland University College, 2009
    • Campus Copyright Policy, Steven McDonald, University of Maryland University College, 2009