Lauren Ko is the supervisor for the Libraries’ Software Development Unit and a certified Software Carpentry instructor. Lauren leads the archiving of UNT websites and works with federal agencies to harvest and store web content. She has a master’s degree in information science and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, both of which she earned at UNT.

Mark Phillips is the Associate Dean for Digital Libraries at the UNT Libraries. He works in the area of digital libraries with an interest in digital preservation, Web archiving, and management of metadata. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from Oklahoma City University, and a Masters of Information Science from UNT. In addition to his job at the UNT Libraries Mark is a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Information Science PhD program in the UNT College of Information.

Manuel (Gio) Gottardi is a Programmer for the UNT Libraries’ Software Development Unit. Gio earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science here at UNT and now works at Willis Library on various sites the Library hosts, such as the Portal To Texas History and the Digital Library. On top of daily use of the tools being taught in the workshop, he also has tutoring experience from his work at NCTC.

Jason Ellis is a Programmer for the UNT Libraries’ Digital Libraries. Jason creates and maintains web sites associated with the UNT Libraries, including The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library. Jason has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Tech University and an Associate of Applied Science degree in software development from Brookhaven College.

Kristy Phillips is a graduate student at UNT in computational linguistics, and works as a research assistant in the Linguistics department. She is interested in using machine learning to study and preserve low-resource languages. Kristy has a BS in computer science from UNT, and will complete her MS in May 2019. She hopes to continue her education with a PhD in information science in 2020.