Chris Powell

Coordinator, Encoded Text Services

Digital Content and Collections · Library Information Technology
Photo of Chris Powell, a middle-aged woman with glasses and chin-length light brown hair, wearing a white shirt, a blue necklace, and a blue and white cardigan.

Pronouns

she/her/hers

Email

sooty@umich.edu

Phone

734-763-9185

Mailing address

300F Hatcher North

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

ORCID ID

0000-0001-7786-1157

Chris Powell

Coordinator, Encoded Text Services

Digital Content and Collections · Library Information Technology

About me

I am the Coordinator of Encoded Text Services for Digital Content & Collections. I'm responsible for the full-text content that is delivered online through interfaces hosted by the library, like DLXS, HathiTrust, and fishrappr.  Working with colleagues who create digitized content throughout the university and at other institutions, I transform and make searchable SGML and XML documents in a variety of markup schemes, including EAD, METS, and TEI.

I have an undergraduate degree in Medieval Studies (with a minor in Astronomy) from the University of Virginia (1993) and a Master of Science in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan (1995).  Before becoming a librarian, I worked as a library assistant at the RAF Lakenheath base library in England, and in Acquisitions at Old Dominion University and the University of Virginia.

Languages

English