Meet the People Behind eCommons
We provided a short history of eCommons in a previous post. Now we’d like to introduce you to the staff who keep things running! I should note that we also get occasional help on special projects from other folks in Metadata Services, CUL-IT, and the UX group, but this is the core “all the time” team.
Mira Basara: eCommons administrator and user support, batch upload support
- Years with eCommons: 11
- Other projects I work on: packaging books for HathiTrust ingest, metadata and image correction in HathiTrust, HathiTrust User Support, LOCKSS box administration, Optical character recognition (OCR) creation, part of team for Archivematica implementation.
- Favorite eCommons collection or item: New York State Integrated Pest Management Program.
George Kozak: eCommons administrator and developer, technical support
- Years with eCommons: 15
- Other projects I work on: many library digital collections as well as Samvera, ArchivesSpace, Scholars@Cornell and server administration.
- Favorite eCommons collection or item: Internet-First University Press: Multimedia and Videos.
Wendy Kozlowski: eCommons data curator and metadata specialist
- Years with eCommons: 3
- Other projects I work on: Cornell’s Research Data Management Service Group, Repository Executive Group, CUL Metadata Services and the Data Curation Network.
- Favorite eCommons collection or item: Seemingly simple but informative datasets on honeybees such as Data from: “Larger but not louder: bigger honey bee colonies have quieter combs” or Data from: How Honey Bee Colonies Survive in the Wild: Testing the Importance of Small Nests and Frequent Swarming.
Chloe McLaren: eCommons administrator and user support
- Years with eCommons: 1.5
- Other projects I work on: arXiv (as the membership coordinator), Copyright information Center (as a first responder).
- Favorite eCommons collection or item: Cane Seats for Chairs by Ruth B. Comstock and Clark E. Garner.
Gail Steinhart: eCommons service manager, liaison to Graduate School for ETD processing, backup for user support and administration
- Years with eCommons: 2
- Other projects I work on: arXiv, scholarly communication initiatives (primarily via the Scholarly Communication Working Group).
- Favorite eCommons collection or item: I’m a big fan of the lecture tapes – there are some gems there.
And you can reach ALL of us anytime at ecommons-admin@cornell.edu.
~ Gail Steinhart, Scholarly Communication Librarian