Daniel J. Evans

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    • Daniel Evans is an information scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I'm part of the HathiTrust Research Center at UIUC and a Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. My research is focused on the impacts of data reuse on cultural heritage collections at scale.

    I have a multidisciplinary background in the humanities, book history, academic publishing, and computer science. To this end, I use mixed methods and apply a diverse theoretical research lens.

    Before returning to graduate school, I held various technical positions at EBSCO Information Services, Carnegie Mellon University, JSTOR Labs, and 3M.

    During this time, I worked on and produced a number of digital archive projects from the American Antiquarian Society, New York Historical, Arté Publico Press, the John Carter Brown Library, the H.W. Wilson Company, among others.

    I also helped produce a number of born digital projects such as the Viral Texts Cluster Search, Marxdown, the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Print and Probability, and Juncture.

    In my free time, I enjoy bicycle touring, woodworking, and tinkering on my C&P Pilot Press.

    If you are interested in collaborating on research, teaching, or digital projects, please email me at djevans4 __at__ illinois.edu