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MacKenzie Smith
(former) Research Director, MIT Libraries
77 Mass. Ave., E25-131
Cambridge MA 02139
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personal URI http://web.mit.edu/kenzie/www/foaf.rdf/#MS
Until 2012, MacKenzie Smith was Research Director at the
MIT Libraries,
where she oversaw digital library research and development. Her research focused on the Semantic Web for scholarly communication, and digital data curation in support of e-research.
From 2002 until 2011 she was the Library's Associate Director for Technology, overseeing the library's use of technology and its technology strategy. During that time she was the MIT project director for DSpace,
MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. DSpace is now in use at thousands of research universities world-wide and managed by the DuraSpace non-profit company. She also served as the the Principal Investigator on a number of major digital library research projects including
SIMILE (Semantic Web for digital libraries and information management, FACADE (preserving digital architectural models) and PLEDGE (automated policy-enforcement for large-scale digital archives).
MacKenzie is now based in the Bay Area and is consulting on several cutting-edge digital library and related initiatives, including a Science Fellowship at Creative Commons, Special Consultant to the Association of Research Libraries' E-Science Institute, and the Digital Public Library of America.
Prior to joining MIT, MacKenzie was the founding Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library
where she managed the design and implementation of their Library Digital Initiative.
She has also held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and once upon a time worked for a medical informatics company to develop one of the first networked PC applications in the country.
Her research interests are in technology applications for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular. Recent research has been focused on research data curation, e-Science, e-Architecture, and Semantic Web tools for data integration and visualization.
Selected other recent activities
Prior life: 3 Swimmers music
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