Adrian Turner
Program/Service
Digital Special Collections
Title
Data Consultant
Responsibilities
As Data Consultant for the Digital Special Collections (DSC) program, one of Adrian's primary focuses is to develop and provide tools, customer support services, and specifications to help UC and non-UC California-based institutions with utilizing DSC services. DSC programs support the aggregation of digital cultural heritage and visual resource collections for UC instructional needs, K-12 teaching, and public use. Are you an academic, public, or private library, archive, historical society, or museum -- and do you have unique primary source collections that you'd like to expand access to? If you're not currently contributing to the OAC or Calisphere, then let DSC help you -- feel free to contact Adrian for more information.
Education:
M.L.I.S, UC Los Angeles
M.A, UC Santa Cruz
Background
Adrian joined the CDL in 2002 serving as an operations manager for the OAC, and has over six years of experience working with DSC contributing member institutions. His general interests lie in standards and tools that support the creation, description, management, and dissemination of digital resources. His core motivations are to enable broad public access to DSC contributor collections in OAC and Calisphere, and to enable the use of collections within the UC and K-12 learning environments. Prior to joining the CDL, he worked as an archivist and manuscripts processor at UC Irvine Special Collections and Archives and the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center, and as a antiquarian book cataloger.
Committees/ Affiliations:
- Society of American Archivists
- Society of California Archivists
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (Kernel Metadata Task Group)
