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Annual Election for three, three-year terms 2020-2023
Esmé Cowles
Awaiting information by June 14thAssistant Director for Information Technology, Princeton University Library
At Princeton, I lead the development teams responsible for our Samvera repository and discovery applications, as well as the broader range Library websites, our Voyager ILS, and hosted services. I began working as a repository developer in 2004, and have been working with Samvera since 2012 — first as a developer, and then as a manager starting in 2018. I've contributed to Library open source development in a variety of ways, including authoring ontologies and RDF schema, leading workshops, and being a Fedora committer and specification editor.
As long as I've been involved with the Samvera community, I have been impressed by how open and welcoming the community is. I would like to join Samvera Steering to continue and build on this aspect of the community. One of my particular areas of interest is supporting adopters who use Samvera as a toolkit to build their own applications. Solution bundles and hosted services have expanded the possibilities of who can adopt Samvera, but I think there is a key role for custom applications to explore different persistence options, integrations, and programming languages. This kind of experimentation and renewal is essential to the long-term sustainability of Samvera. It is my hope that continuing to embrace and value different approaches, different kinds of contributions, and different ways of using Samvera will help keep both our code and our community vibrant and sustainable.
Jeremy Friesen
Manager, Digital Library Technologies and Research & Development Technology Engineer
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