Shawn Averkamp

Shawn Averkamp has specialized in data and digital asset management since 2007. Her work as a Senior Consultant at AVP has focused on exploring creative, user-focused solutions to both novel and common data challenges, from leading experimentation and assessment of machine learning tools for audiovisual metadata, to supporting supply chain analysis of cattle transactions and deforestation in Brazil, to mapping large-scale metadata migrations. Before joining AVP, Shawn served as Manager of Metadata Services, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library, where she oversaw metadata production, contributed to product development for local DAMS and library catalog platforms, and directed the development of metadata infrastructure for NYPL’s unique digital resources. Prior to joining NYPL, she supported metadata management, digital humanities, crowdsourcing platform development, digital preservation, and data curation at the University of Iowa Libraries as Data Services Librarian and Interim Head of Digital Research & Publishing and as a Metadata Librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries. She earned her MLIS from the University of Iowa and holds a BA in Music from Luther College.