Andrew Ashton is the Director of Digital Technologies at Brown University Library.  He leads a group of librarians, developers, and technologists devoted to supporting and exploring the intersection of digital library technologies with teaching and research at the university.  He oversees the development of the Brown Digital Repository and advocates for its role as a locus for digital objects that impact the university’s mission.  He has presented and published on numerous topics relating to text encoding, the Semantic Web, and the development of tools for enabling rich data resources to integrate with emerging web technologies.  He holds a MA in American History, a MLS, and a BA in Music from Cornell University.

Andy’s research interests include exploring the intersection of emerging resource-oriented web standards and digital scholarly collections, particularly XML-based formats such as TEI. In addition to ongoing collaborations with Brown faculty, he is currently involved with several CDS research projects, including the creation of a suite of modular analysis tools for textual collections, the development of a Fedora-based framework for scholarly annotations using AtomPub, and an exploration of the use of OWL ontologies with TEI collections.