Vitaly Zakuta

Experience

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  Harvard Library

  Sept 1999 - Dec 2016

  Digital preservation, digital curation and full digital project lifecycle management consulting for Harvard libraries and Harvard museums curators and collection managers.Harvard Digital Repository Service representative to library, museums and other university departments. Business analysis including functional requirements and Agile project planning, acceptance testing and software rollout planning for Harvard Library systems. Outward communications for software releases.Key projects:Harvard Library long-term preservation initiativeHarvard Library DRS metadata migration project Tibetan Buddhist Research Center Digital CollectionsJudaica Digital Collections Show less Technical expertise, planning and direction for all technology projects within the library. Project based and ongoing digitization of the library visual collections and faculty personal visual collections.Key projects:Asian Art Images - a project to catalog and digitizing of 3,600 Asian Art images.Digitization of the Slide Library - a retrospective conversion including data for 150,000 teaching slides and digitization of 100,000 of them.Architectural Views of the World, 1870-1920: Digitization of Lantern Slides from the Fine Arts Library Collection - cataloging and digitizing of 15,000 glass lantern slides.Faculty Personal Collections Digitization: Phase I. Show less

  • Digital Projects Librarian

    Jun 2006 - Dec 2016

  • Manager

    Apr 2001 - Jun 2006

  • Technical Information Analyst

    Sept 1999 - Apr 2001
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  Harvard University

  Dec 2016 - now

  Senior Information Technology Project Manager

  Agile project management and analysis for digital library systems projectsAnalysis of digital library workflows to implement appropriate system configurations and to develop “best practice” proceduresConsultation for library project managers and curators in digital library projects and workflows, including recommendations for digital preservation and reformatting best practices, metadata standards and vendor specificationsKey projects:Digital Repository Service (DRS) metadata migrationDRS new formats supportDigital library projects:ACT UP! Project InterviewsCharlie Hebdo ArchiveIsraeli Dance ArchiveOral Business History Interviews Buddhist Research Center Digital CollectionsAdditional Skills: MODS, METS, MARC, MIX, AES-60, AES-57, AES-31, EBUCORE, TextMD, DocumentMD metadata standards; Mac/PC/Unix, Unix scripting, XML, XSL. Show less