Matti Lassila

Experience

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  Porvoo City Library

  Jun 2006 - Dec 2006

  Designer

  Competitive analysis, requirements gathering and strategy development for a literature website targeting Finnish teens.

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  Kirjastot.fi / Helsinki City Library

  Mar 2007 - Dec 2007

  Sitebuilder

  Premilinary sitebuilding, templating and programming for Drupal-based literature site.

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  Sange Coop

  Jan 2008 - now

  Partner

  Some of my previous projects:* Statistics Finland (Graphics for EUROSTUDENT Finland 2010 National Report),* Informaatiotutkimuksen yhdistys Ry (XML transformation stylesheets for MARC21XML->Open Journal Systems Conversion).* Seinäjoki Regional Library (transformation workflow for importing data to Omeka from legacy in-house developed collection management system to Omeka CMS; Omeka plugin development & localization, user training)* Kuopio Regional Library (XML transformation stylesheets for MARC21XML to Omeka CSV-conversion). Omeka theme & plugin development.* Hämeenlinna Regional Library (transformation workflow for importing data from legacy database to Omeka, Omeka configuration & training, plugin and theme development)* Kuusamo City Library (transformation workflow for importing data from legacy database to Omeka, theme development, configuration)* Central Library for Public Libraries in Finland (Kirjastot.fi) Omeka configuration, administration and plugin development. Metadata management.* Oulu City Library (Omeka training, implementation support)* Helsinki City Library (libraries.fi). Omeka configuration and support for digi.kirjastot.fi; national site for publishing digital collections of Finnish public libraries. Migrations (ETL) from legacy systems to Omeka.* Keuruu City Library (Omeka implementation and configuration) Show less

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  Porvoo City Library / 23asiaa.net

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2008

  E-learning Facilitator, Sitebuilder

  Designed, implemented and facilitated a nationwide elearning course targeted at librarians, teaching Web 2.0- based collaboration & communication skills. In collaboration with Mace Ojala.

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  Helsinki University Library Digital Services

  May 2009 - Nov 2009

  Intern / Contractor

  As an intern, I created a set of XSLT & shell scripts which were used to migrate various DSpace-based publication repositories to a single institutional repository (helda.helsinki.fi)As a contractor, I developed a lightweight CakePHP-based tool for depositing thesis abstracs to Helda institutional repository.

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  Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries / 23asiaa.net

  Oct 2009 - Apr 2010

  E-learning Facilitator

  Together with Mace Ojala, we adapted originally nationwide course for librarians working at Helsinki Metropolitan Area.

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  University of Tampere

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2012

  Research Assistant

  User research on XML information retrieval.

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  Vaasa City Library - Regional Library

  Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

  Project designer

  Web strategy development for Finnish public libraries. Localization and plugin development work for Omeka digital collection managment system. Finished report available at http://bit.ly/avk-wiki (in Finnish)

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  Jyväskylä University Library

  Jun 2013 - Nov 2019

  Information Specialist

  My day-to-day work included metadata management (XQuery, SQL, Librecat, Omeka), data analysis (Google Analytics, R, CiteSpace, Jupyter/Python) and some front-line customer service too.

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  Tampere University

  Nov 2019 - now

  Senior Specialist

  Makin' data work harder. Some tools of my trade: RStudio/R, Jupyter/Python, Matomo, Power Automate, Postgres, BaseX/XQuery, Gephi.