Karen Majewicz is the Associate Director of Technology and Data Curation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network, based at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She holds a Master of Geographic Information Science from the University of Minnesota, a B.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, and a Digital Archives Specialist certification from the Society of American Archivists. Her work focuses on metadata standards and quality, open data, geodata archiving, national spatial data infrastructures, and open-source software. Karen is active in the Geo4Lib and OpenGeoMetadata communities, and she serves on the Archiving Committee for the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council.
