Gary McGath

Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University Libraries
Office for Information Systems

I have been a software engineer at OIS since May 2004, having been a contractor with OIS for almost a year before that.

There are some of the projects I have worked on:

• JHOVE, an open-source extensible framework for file format validation.
• Creation of an OAI/PMH data provider for HUL's Virtual Collections.
• Addressing security issues in OIS web applications.
• Bug fixes and enhancements in TED and VIA.
• Conversion and ingesting of data for the Iranian Oral History Project.
• Exporting of a large body of image data and aggregation of corresponding metadata for ARTstor, to make these images readily available to students.
• Ongoing maintenance and enhancement of IDS, the Image Delivery Service.
• Porting of SDS, the Streaming Delivery Service, to a Linux server.

My name has been on two papers produced from OIS, though the truth is I didn't have much to do with writing them:

• Stephen L. Abrams and Gary McGath, "Format Dependencies in Repository Operation", Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2004.
• Robin Wendler, Michael Vandermillen, Gary McGath, and Emerson Morgan, "Is the World Flat? Sharing Hierarchical Image Metadata with Flat Database Partners", Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2006.

My email address is [My first name]@hulmail.harvard.edu.

• File format resources
• Resources on RFID in libraries
• File Formats Blog (blogspot.com)

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