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Digital Librarian and Archivist
About Carla Simmons
In 2017, Carla Simmons led the recovery of 4.2 million orphaned PDFs from the defunct OpenCourseWare Commons, files stripped of metadata, mislabeled, and scattered across 37 broken subdomains. She didn’t just restore them; she reverse-engineered their provenance using browser cache artifacts, Wayback Machine timestamps, and institutional domain histories to rebuild contextual integrity. Her approach treats digital objects not as static files but as living traces of scholarly intent, each with a lineage of creation, modification, and use that must be legible decades later. She co-authored the ISO/IEC 16363-2023 extension for auditability of AI-generated archival descriptions, mandating human-readable rationale fields in every automated metadata record. Carla doesn’t believe preservation is about freezing data, it’s about sustaining interpretive pathways, even when the tools that created the data vanish.
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- “How do you handle metadata drift in AI-generated academic preprints?”
- “What’s the most fragile digital format you’ve successfully recovered?”
- “Can archived web content retain its original interactivity in 2040?”
- “How do you verify authenticity when source code repositories are deleted?”