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MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

2022 | Industry: Publishing

Full page screenshot of the fictionfilters.org home page showing several recent books with genre and trope tags as well as the dual include/exclude search interface

For my MLIS capstone team project, I built a crowdsourced tagging site for novels. Using a tag wrangling process and dual include/exclude search interface inspired by the Archive of Our Own, we demonstrated how curating user-submitted tags into a detailed controlled … [Read more...] about MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

Rutgers GradFund

2019 | Industry: Education

The School of Graduate Studies Peer Mentoring Fellowship Advising Service maintains a database of funding opportunities for graduate students: scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. The database is maintained in-house and needed to be synced with the public website—which … [Read more...] about Rutgers GradFund

University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network

2018 | Industry: Education, Publishing

The University of Georgia Online Learning team had a pilot project for their open educational resources: the Physical Education department had written an open textbook for their courses, and it was the ideal project to see whether Pressbooks would serve their needs. If it went … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network

Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search

2015 | Industry: Government

The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is a small state agency that provides diagnostic testing services to veterinarians. The website includes a database of available tests, shipping instructions for biological samples, a reference library, an archive of news … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search

Justine Larbalestier, 2013

2013 | Industry: Publishing

Justine still loved the 2008 version of her site, but wanted to refresh and update it a little. We decided to keep the background, which had become a signature look for her, and give the main content more contrast. We rethought the navigation entirely and replaced some of the … [Read more...] about Justine Larbalestier, 2013

Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network

2014 | Industry: Education

I had worked with Texas A&M University at Qatar before to set up last-minute sites for events. We agreed that this was not the ideal process, and they set aside some time for me to create a better solution. We set up a new multisite network and created a sample site with … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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