Tori McGillen-Choi

I have a lot of experience converting data from one format to another. Merging companies, software migrations, and changing leadership standards are just a few reasons why I’ve found data conversion so commonplace in my past career. When I read that MARC stood for “machine readable cataloging record,” I was immediately intrigued by the possibility of decoding MARC records with some form of automation. I decided to take on the challenge and realized quickly just how densely pa

When talking about geographic data, it is hard for me to separate the aspects of a place from the aspects of the time in which it exists and the context in which the information about it will be used. Am I attempting to navigate to this place? Am I describing where it is relative to other places? Am I describing the land itself or the nations or peoples that claim it? For this assignment, I attempted to describe each coordinate as you may find it on Google Maps or Wikipedia a