I am a librarian and the Director of Media & Access at Internet Archive, a nonprofit library dedicated to collecting all the world’s knowledge and making it available to everyone for free. I spend my time expanding the amount and quality of knowledge that is openly accessible on the Internet, building partnerships with other organizations who want to share information with the world, and advocating for more people to do the same.

Currently I manage the collections of the Internet Archive, which contains 80+ million items consuming 99 Petabytes of unique storage and serving 1.6 million patrons per day. My team acquires and preserves movies, television, radio, music, books, and software. We maintain the command-line interface and python tools for bulk uploading, the public metadata schema, provide a help center and community support, and work with external volunteers and partners to add media to the library.

Previously I managed a complete revamp of the archive.org web site design, I ran the Wayback Machine for 4 years, founded our web wide crawling project, and brought OpenLibrary.org from initial conception through launch. You can read more about previous positions on linkedin.

I also like to make stuff. All opinions expressed on this site are my own.

Volunteer activities

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team, Internet Archive
• Code of Conduct Lead, Decentralized Web Summit and Dweb Camp
• Advisory Board, Open GLAM
• Advisory Board, The Commons Initiative

Writing

• Internet Archive blog posts
• Book chapter (PDF):  Cultural Heritage in the Digital World (Kulturelles Erbe in der digitalen Welt) translated to German, September 2016

Presentations, Interviews, Articles, etc.

• Keynote: Linked Open Data in a Curious World (BDRC-Columbia University Conference on Linked Open Data, November 2019)
• Radio Archive (video of presentation, World Night Market, October 2019)
• Webby Podcast S2 EP 5: Internet Archive (audio interview, November 2017)
• The Great 78 Project (video of presentation, 20th Century Time Machine, October 2017)
• Sammeln, bewahren, zugänglich machen: So arbeitet das „Internet Archive“ (Collect, preserve, make available: How the Internet Archive Works) (article [translated to German], iRights Info, September 2016)
• Wayback Machine: How the Internet Archive Continues to Inform, Serve, and Inspire (interview, The Content Wrangler, May 2016)
• The Internet Archive–Bricks and Mortar Version (interview, Scientific American, April 2016)
• Keynote: Building Libraries Together (presentation, Terminology and knowledge organization in preserving digital memories, Rende, Italy, April 2016)
• Innovation in Libraries (panel, SXSW Education, Austin, March 2016)
• The Internet Archivists (video interview, From Clay to the Cloud exhibit, January 2016)
• How the Internet Archive maintains an information super highway (interview, Opensource.com, November 2015)
• Community Curated Collections (presentation, Internet Librarian, Monterey, October 2015)
• Studying the media landscape (presentation, International Federation of Television Archives, Vienna, October 2015)
• From recording to listening: why & how opening up access to audio heritage? (video of panel, Europeana Sounds, Paris, October 2015)
• Building Shared Collections (presentation, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Paris, September 2015)
• Internet archive: Universal access. Open APIs (presentation, LinuxCon, Seattle, August 2015)
• Internet archive: Universal access. Open APIs (presentation, OSCON, Portland, July 2015)
• Internet Archive: Universal Access to All Knowledge (presentation, Quito, Ecuador, July 2015)
• Digital Archiving for Humans (panel at ALA, June 2015)
• Defeating the Information Black Hole (presentation, Nerd Nite SF, June 2015)
• In the Making: Craft, Collaboration, Credit (panel, Art of the Archive, UC Davis, 2015)
• Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (meeting, 2015)
• The Networked World: “The Archive” (panel discussion, 2015)
• Crowdsourcing and the Futures of Libraries (workshop, 2015)
• The Internet Archive hopes to boost its collections through funding from the Knight News Challenge (interview, 2015)
• Knight News Challenge Media Innovation Awards: Building Libraries Together (presentation video, 2015)
• Internet Archive: More than the Wayback Machine (Open Source Bridge, 2014)
• Das FBI wollte auch schon mal Daten von uns (interview, 2014)
• Who archives the Internet? (video, re:publica 2014)
• Arhiva Internetului, noua Bibliotecă din Alexandria, nu lasă site-urile să dispară (news, 2013)
• When Will the Internet Defeat Link Rot? (interview, 2013)
• Game of Clones (interview, 2013)
• Biblioteca digital garante acesso sem infringir copyright (news, 2013)
• Universal Access: 12 Petabytes of Free Data (presentation video, Forum Internacional Software Livre 2013)
• Saying Goodbye to Your Digital Self (South by Southwest, 2012)