Leslie Johnston has over twenty years experience in digitization and digital conversion, setting and applying metadata and content standards, and overseeing the development of digital content management and delivery systems and services. She is the acting director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress. Previously, she served as chief of the Repository Development Center at the Library; the head of digital access services at the University of Virginia Library; Head of Instructional Technology and Library Information Systems at the Harvard Design School; the academic technology specialist for Art for the Stanford University Libraries; and as database specialist for the Getty Research Institute. She has also been active in the museum community, working for various museums, teaching courses on museum systems, editing the journal Spectra and serving on the board of the Museum Computer Network.
Most Recent Posts
- What are We Going to do About Hardware? May 24th, 2013
- Open Data and Preservation May 10th, 2013
- Before You Were Born: Image Digitization, a Personal Reminiscence April 25th, 2013
- Digital Humanities and Digital Preservation April 12th, 2013
- When Smart People Make Silly Decisions about their Files March 11th, 2013
- Community Building is What it’s All About February 21st, 2013
- It’s All About the Gear February 5th, 2013
- Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts December 19th, 2012
- When Data Loss is Personal November 28th, 2012
- Before You Were Born…Museums had Networks November 9th, 2012
