Ruth Tillman

Cataloging Systems and Linked Data Strategist
Associate Librarian
Cataloging and Metadata Services
E006 Paterno
814-865-1858 (department)
814-863-7293 (fax)
rkt6@psu.edu
Head shot of Ruth Kitchin Tillman with yellow, brown, and green foliage in the outdoor background

Publications

Crossing Silos: Assessing the Utility of Identity Attributes in Name Reconciliation, portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025

Indispensable, Interdependent, and Invisible: A Qualitative Inquiry into Library Systems Maintenance, College and Research Libraries, 2023

Pragmatic Principles for Archival Linked Data, American Archivist, 2022

Opportunities for Encoding EAD for Linked Data Extraction and Publication, Journal of Archival Organization, 2018

Where Are We Now? Survey on Rates of Faculty Self-Deposit in Institutional Repositories., Journal of librarianship and scholarly communication, 2017

Extracting, Augmenting, and Updating Metadata in Fedora 3 and 4 Using a Local OpenRefine Reconciliation Service, Code4Lib Journal, 2016

Other Publications

Blogs

Responses & Retrospectives: Toward Collective Change, A Response to Precarious Labor Practices and a Roadmap to Creating Ethical Grant-Funded Positions, 2020

Chapters

The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure, Library Juice Press, 2023

Barriers to Ethical Linked Data Name Authority Modeling, Library Juice Press, 2019

Magazine/Trade Publications

Digital Labor Forum Tackles Temp Jobs on Grant, Digitization Projects | Peer to Peer Review, Library Journal, 2019

Others

Serving Disabled Members of Your Community, 2022

The Power of Parallel Description: Wikidata and Archival Discovery, Stanford University Libraries, 2021

Collective Equity: A Handbook for Designing and Evaluating Grant-Funded Positions, 2020

"Do Better"-Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums, 2020

Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, 2019

Editorial: Beyond Posters: On Hospitality in Libtech, Code4Lib Journal, 2018

Roundtable: Should library workers learn to code?, Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2018

Editorial: Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order, Code4Lib Journal, 2017

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