James D Myers

James D Myers

Developer, Dataverse Core Development Team
Senior Developer and Architect for the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC)
Jim Myers

Dr. Myers is an independent software architect, designer, and developer currently working in the Dataverse community through the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) and the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University (1985) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley (1993). He has more than three decades of experience in the development and deployment of Cyberinfrastructure for research, education, and industrial application and has participated in the planning and execution of multiple large community cyberinfrastructure projects for the US NSF, ONR, and DOE. Dr. Myers has been active in the development of provenance and content management standards and has led efforts to design and develop data-intensive hardware and software systems. As a co-PI on SEAD DataNet project, Dr. Myers helped develop a scalable mechanism for the long-term preservation of scientific research results based on semantic web and cloud technologies and leveraging active and social curation approaches to increase data re-use and lower lifecycle costs. He has development experience using multiple languages (Java, Scala, PHP, Javascript, C/C++) and technologies (including relational and document databases, semantic web, preservation formats, dev/Ops, Docker, AWS).

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