Thomas Padilla
Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Collections as Data is an effort by librarians, archivists, and museums professionals to strategize best practices for developing, describing, providing access to, and encouraging reuse of collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching. Thomas Padilla, Principal Investigator for the IMLS-funded Collections as Data Initiative, will talk about the aims and interests of those engaged in these efforts and the kinds of research and communities that cultural heritage collections rendered as data can support.
Thomas Padilla is Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He publishes, presents, and teaches widely on digital scholarship, digital collections, Humanities data, data curation, and data information literacy. He is Principal Investigator of the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported, Collections as Data.
Thomas is a member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities Executive Council (2017-2021), the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Executive Council, the WhatEVery1Says Advisory Board, the Integrating digital humanities into the web of scholarship with SHARE Advisory Board, and the ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence Advisory Group. Thomas serves as an Editor for dh + lib Data Praxis. Thomas is a regular instructor at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT).