Description: Associate Librarian
Nick Ruest is an Associate Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Infrastructure Department at York University , co-Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded The Archives Unleashed Project , co-Principal Investigator of the SSHRC grant “ A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996-2014 ”, and co-Principal Investigator of the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge .
At York University, he oversees the libraries’ preservation initiatives, along with creating and implementing systems that support the capture, description, delivery, and preservation of digital objects having significant content of enduring value. He was previously active in the Islandora and Fedora communities, serving as Project Director for the Islandora CLAW project , member of the Islandora Foundation’s Roadmap Committee and Board of Directors , and contributed code to the project. He has also served
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