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Aaron Collie

FRASER Digital Library Manager

Aaron Collie is the manager of FRASER, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and has over 10 years of experience working on free and open source software (FOSS) development projects. He is an active participant in the Digital Library Federation (DLF), Research Data Alliance (RDA), Citizen Science Association (CSA) and Code4lib communities and currently serves on the Leadership Group of the National Digital Stewardship Association (NDSA). Aaron teaches, writes, and consults on topics of data curation and agile workforce development in information-intensive professions.

Selected Publications

Barsness, S., Collie, A., Gallinger, M., Kussman, C., Schaefer, S., Truman, G. (2018) 2017 Fixity Survey Report: An NDSA Report. National Digital Stewardship Alliance. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/SNJBV Retrieved from: https://ndsa.org/documents/Report_2017NDSAFixitySurvery.pdf

Mooney, H., Collie, W. A., Nicholson, S., & Sosulski, M. R. (2014). Collaborative approaches to undergraduate research training: Information literacy and data management. Advances in Social Work, 15(2), 368-389. Retrieved from http://advancesinsocialwork.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/15089

Mak, L., Collie, A., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). Local Data, International Connections: Enabling and integrating ETD repositories through linked data models. Library Management 2014 35:4/5, 284-292 Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LM-08-2013-0075

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). “Accumulating metadata from tributary workflows for more robust archival records.” Archiving 2013 Conference Proceedings, Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Retrieved from http://ist.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ist/ac/2013/00002013/00000001/art00019

Collie, A., & Witt, M. (2011) “A Practice & Value Proposal for Doctoral Dissertation Data Curation.” 6th International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2).

Collie, A., Mak, L., Nicholson, S. (2011). “One Stone, Two Birds: Data Assessment Framework for Digital Collection Audit and Preservation” Archiving 2011 Conference Proceedings, Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Retrieved from http://ist.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ist/ac/2011/00002011/00000001/art00031

White, J., Tollini, C., Collie, A., Strueber, M., Strueber, L., Ward, J. (2009). Evolution and university-level anthropology text books: The “missing link”? Evolution: Education and Outreach. Volume 2(4): 722-737

Selected Presentations

Collie, A. (2018) “Characterizing maturity in core archival functions that impact sustainability.” Open Repositories 2018. Bozeman, MT. June 4-7

Margolis, D., Collie, A. (2016) “The Potential of the Past: Walking Through the Creation of an Open Access Collection of Faculty-Produced Holocaust Site Photographs.” HASTAC 2016. Tempe, Arizona. May 11-14

Creamer, A., Collie, A., Shreeves, S., Dietrich, D., & Van Tuyl, S. (2015) “Current Issues and Approaches to Curating Student Research Data.” Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2015. April 22-24, 2015.

Eckard, M., Collie, A., Witteveen-Lane, C. (2015) Implementing Sustainable Research Data Services at Three Diverse Institutions. Association of College and Research Libraries. Portland, OR. March 25-28, 2015.

Higgins, D., Collie, A., Mak,. L. (2014) International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, Taipei, Taiwan

Collie, A., Rodriguez, M. (2014) “Managing Risk and Growing Emergent Library Services: More People, Less Process” Michigan Library Association’s Annual Conference. Grand Rapids, MI. Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Collie, A., Mooney, H., Nicholson, S., (2014) “Transforming undergraduate research: Embedding information and data literacy.” CIC Center for Library Initiatives 2014. Ann Arbor, MI. May 22 & 23, 2014

Collie, A., Goldman, B., Joseph, B., Shallcross, M. (2013) “Digital Preservation at the Crossroads: Institutional Approaches.” Midwest Archives Conference 2013. Kansas City, Mo.

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). Local Data, International Connections: Enabling and integrating ETD repositories through linked data models. Electronic Theses and Dissertation Conference 2013. Hong Kong, China. September 23, 2013

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). ETD metadata and institutional assessment. Cyber- infrastructure Days. Lansing, MI October 24-25, 2013

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). Opportunities Abound: ETDs as harbingers of institutional change. United Stated Electronic Theses and Dissertation Conference 2013. Claremont, California. July 24, 2013

Collie, A., Mak, L. (2013) “Building a Robust Pipeline for ETD Ingestion with Rich Metadata.” American Library Association, Digital Preservation Interest Group. June 30, 2013

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). Furthering the Community: Integrating Archivematica and Fedora Commons. Library and Information Technology Association 2013. Novermber 8-10

Collie, A., Mak, L., Higgins, D., Nicholson, S. (2013). “Accumulating metadata from tributary workflows for more robust archival records.” Presented at Archiving 2013. Washington, D.C. April 2-4

Collie, A., Mak, L. (2013) “Incompatible or Interoperable? A METS bridge for a small gap between two digital preservation software packages.” American Library Association, ALCTS Metadata Interest Group. January 27, 2013

Collie, A., Mooney, H., & Nicholson, S. (2012) “Unlocking data management: A curriculum for undergraduate research assistants.” Poster session presented at International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology 38th Annual Conference Washington, D.C., USA, June 4 - June 8, 2012

Collie, A., Kloiber, D., & Wurl, J. (2012) “New Grantsmanship: Digital Sustainability, Open Access, and Consortia Arrangements” Midwest Archival Conference. Grand Rapids, MI. April 19- 21, 2012

Collie, A., Mooney, H. & Nicholson, S. (2012) “Undergraduates and Research Data Management.” Lightning talk presented at the IASSIST Research Data Preservation & Access Summit. New Orleans, LA. March 22 – 23, 2012

Collie, A., Schmidt, L. & Mooney, H. (2012) “Research Data Management Guidance at Michigan State.” Lightning talk presented at the ASIS&T Research Data Preservation & Access Summit. New Orleans, LA. March 22 – 23, 2012

Collie, A., Mak, L., Nicholson, S. (2011). “One Stone, Two Birds: Data Assessment

Framework for Digital Collection Audit and Preservation” Presented at Archiving 2011. Salt Lake City, Utah. 16-19

Collie, W.A. & Witt, M. (2011). A Practice and Value Proposal for Doctoral Dissertation Data Curation. Presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Cragin, M., Palmer, C., Varvel, V., Collie, A., Dolan, M., (2009). Analyzing data curation job descriptions. Presented during poster session at the 5th International Digital Curation Conference.

Professional Memberships, Awards, Service

Chair -- Digital Preservation 2018 Conference Planning Committee, National Digital Stewardship Alliance, 2018

Invited Reviewer – CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections, 2017

NDSA Innovative Organization Award – National Digital Stewardship Alliance 2016

Certified Scrum Product Owner – Scrum Alliance, 2016

Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance, 2016

Elected Member – Visioning Committee, Michigan State University Library, 2016

Co-Chair – NDSA Standards and Practices Interest Group, 2016 – present

Digital Project Leader – Sustaining Digital Resources, ITHAKA S+R, 2015

Member – Code4lib Midwest Conference Planning Committee, 2015

Co-Principle Investigator – “Women’s Overseas Service League Oral Histories” $18,719.00 grant by the National Historical Publications & Records Committee, 2015

Member – Research Data Alliance, 2015 - present

Member – Citizen Science Association, 2015 – present

Reviewer – Citizen Science 2015 pre-conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015

President – Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, 2015 – 2017

Reviewer – Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2014 & 2016

Invited Member -- Beta Phi Mu Alpha Chapter, 2013

Reviewer – Access, 2013

Member – National Digital Stewardship Alliance, 2013 – present

Vice President – Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, 2012 – 2014

Invited Reviewer -- Journal of Web Librarianship’s special issue on Data Curation, 2012

Founding member – Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, 2012

Board Member – Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, 2011 - 2017

Member – Digital Curation Centre Associates Network, 2010 - present