Thomas Padilla is Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive.

Thomas has over ten years of experience developing, consulting, publishing, presenting, and teaching on responsible computational use of cultural heritage collections, digital strategy, data literacy, digital scholarship, and data curation.

Thomas is Advisory Board Member, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media; Advisory Board Member, Digital Preservation Services Collaborative; Technical Advisory Board Member, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship; National Advisory Board Member, Opioid Industry Documents Archive; and Advisory Board Member, The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections.

Projects

Values Forward Praxis

Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries

Collections as Data: Part to Whole

Always Already Computational: Collections as Data

Engagement

AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations), July 2021 

Ireland’s National Research & Education Network, June 10, 2021

Ensuring Scholarly Access to Digital Records, Virginia Tech, April – May 2021

Collections as data as an organizational model, ACRL, April 6, 2021

Contact

Thomas can be reached at tpadilla at archive dot org or on Twitter.