The Open Library Team

The guts of Open Library are operated upon by a small, dedicated team. Here's everyone (in alphabetical order):

Core Dev Team

[[/user/glassdog|Lance Arthur]]  HTML & Pixel Wrangler
Lance has been running around virtually naked on the web since 1996. His personal site was instrumental in influencing the first generation of web designers to explore the limits of web design while he honed his writing skills by exposing way too much information about himself. He is happy his last name begins with A.

[[/user/edward|Edward Betts]]  Chief Data Munger
Edward has a long and storied career importing data for everything from travel agencies to television networks. And, when he comes home at night, he has a side project: importing data from recipe sites. So we're lucky to have him on our team, managing our monumental collection of data importing tasks.

[[/user/Winnie|Winnie Chen]]  QA Master
Winnie's bio is coming.

[[/user/anand|Anand Chitipothu]]  Chief Web Programmer
Anand received his Masters in Computational Science from the Indian Institute of Science before becoming technical leader at Strand Life Sciences. Working full-time for Open Library from India, he is in charge of development for Infobase, our database system, and Infogami, our wiki software, and takes part in building many of the other pieces.

[[/user/george08|George Oates]]  Project Lead, Designer
George has worked on the web since 1996. Before she joined the Open Library team, she was responsible for creating the Flickr Commons (flickr.com/commons) and was the award-winning lead designer of Flickr itself. Before that, she designed all sorts of web applications, from a booking system for a ballooning company to the public face of a bank in Australia.

Advisors

[[/user/kcoyle|Karen Coyle]]  Metadata Czar
When we asked around for librarians we could trust on this project, everyone said the same thing: Karen Coyle. Coyle spent twenty years at the California Digital Library at the University of California before becoming a consultant. She's written papers on everything from catalog cards to RDF and her encyclopedic knowledge of the field is invaluable in designing our system.

Brewster Kahle  Overseer
Kahle is the founder of WAIS, Alexa Internet, and Internet Archive, which he currently runs. He oversees the project, flies around the country promoting it, and cuts (some of) the checks.

Alumni

Daniel Giffin  Programmer
After a career moving between computer science academia and computer science startups, Giffin was in charge of importing catalog data, as he worked for Open Library from New York. He designed our basic schema and wrote the initial importers for Library of Congress and other publisher data. He is now doing computer science research at Stanford University.

[[/user/webchick|Rebecca Malamud]]  Designer
Malamud is the design genius behind media.org, invisible.net, mappa.mundi.net, betterdogfood.com, resource.org, and dozens of other brilliantly named and designed sites. She works from Sixes, Oregon.

[[/user/alexis|Alexis Rossi]]  Manager
Rossi has worked as a news content manager at ClariNet, the first online news aggregator, as editorial director at Alexa Internet, and in the collections group at Internet Archive. She squeezed data from publishers, code from programmers, and made sure all the servers ran on time.

[[/user/aaronsw|Aaron Swartz]]  Former Project Leader
The Open Library wouldn't exist without Aaron. He wrote the backbone of the system you see today. He has also worked on specs like RSS, startups like Reddit.com, and software projects like web.py. He worked from San Francisco to architect the site, put together the team, and attempt to keep things organized, and we couldn't have come this far without his crucial expertise.

solrize  Search Programmer
One day, some other Archive people were trying to write a program using rm, the Unix utility to delete things, when they checked its main page. They quickly spun around. "Hey Paul," they asked. "Did you write rm?" "Oh yeah," Paul replied, with a dismissive wave of his hand. "But that was a long time ago." Paul worked from Internet Archive's offices in San Francisco to build our search engine and help with importing.

Contributors

A.S.L. Devi contributed the AJAX autocomplete and other fun features.

Werner Popken contributed to the German translations and testing our i18n user interface.

[[/user/tommi|Tommi Raivio]] contributed our review system.