NDSA:Jonathan Crabtree
Jonathan Crabtree, Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Biography:
Crabtree is Assistant Director of Computing and Archival Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC Chapel Hill. The institute’s social science data archive is one of the oldest and most extensive in the country. As assistant director, Crabtree completely revamped the institute’s technology infrastructure and has positioned the institute to assume a leading national role in information archiving. His current efforts include working with the University of Michigan, the Harvard-MIT Data Center and preservation partners across the country to create a national preservation strategy for social science data and developing policy based auditing systems for preservation systems.
Crabtree joined the institute nineteen years ago and is responsible for designing and maintaining the technology infrastructure that supports the institute’s wide array of services. Before moving to the social science side of campus he was an information systems technologist for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. His grounding in medical information technology adds to his education and training in electrical engineering, library and information science, digital preservation, computer science, economics, geographic information systems, hydrology and geomorphology.
Interest in serving on the Coordinating Committee:
It is my belief that the NDSA is an organization that should provide a foundational role in the digital preservation efforts across our country. I would be happy to represent the Odum Institute and the University of North Carolina by serving on the NDSA Coordinating Committee. If my insights into research data preservation, digital replication auditing and information systems would be helpful to the cause; it would be a delight to serve. Our community is rich in talents that can be brought to bear to help forge solutions to digital preservation problems that face our society. Helping to bring them together in a coordinated fashion would be a pleasure.
Community represented:
Academia
Date Curators
Social Scientist Researchers
Length of term:
3 years (ending December 31, 2015)