Sure, let's meet Dave Lester
I love rdio, Foursquare, Capital Bikeshare, coffee, and indie rock.
I'm a graduate student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, while working as Creative Lead at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Prior to moving to Berkeley, I was the Assistant Director at MITH, directing the design and development of digital projects and open source software for libraries, museums, and archives.
This semester I'm taking two courses on data mining, along with a class on distributed computing. You can follow my progress on GitHub.
I have an interest in web services and sharing humanities data, and last spring I directed an API Workshop, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities.
Prior to joining MITH, I was a developer at the Center for History and New Media. Omeka (web-publishing for digital archives) and ScholarPress (a WordPress-driven Course Management System) are two projects that I contributed to. I also co-founded THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp and WordCampEd.
The best want to get in contact is either by Twitter or email.
Upcoming / Recent Presentations
"A Web 2.0 Challenge to American Studies: Replacing a Roundtable Discussion With E-Pitches", American Studies Association, November
"Geospatial Discovery of Cultural Heritage Materials", Virginia Forum, April 17
"Interoperable Annotation: A Reference Implementation for the Open Annotation Collaboration", CNI Spring Membership Meeting, April 13
"Collaborative Approaches for Digital Humanities: Unconferences and Crowdsourcing." Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Dialogue, February 2010.
“Introducing Omeka.” Innovations in E-Learning Symposium, June 2009.
“Mobile Historical Landscapes: Crowdsourcing Historical Landscapes.” American Association for History and Computing (AAHC), April 2009.
"Edupunk: Open Source Education." South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, March 2009.
"Extending WordPress." WordCamp Higher-Ed North East, February 2009.
"Reclaiming Authenticity through Historical Roleplaying in Virtual Worlds." Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association, November 2008.
"Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and Collaborative Research." American Studies Association Conference, October 2008.
"Omeka: Easy Web Publishing for Scholarship and Cultural Heritage." Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Dialogue, September 2008. [ View Slides]
"Building History Websites." National History Day Conference, June 2008. [View Slides]
"Teaching History with Computer Simulations." Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association Conference, April 2008. [View Slides]
"Omeka: Web-based Exhibits Made Easy." Code4Lib Conference, February 2008. [View Slides]