Michelle Urberg

About Michelle Urberg

I am open to new professional opportunities that will help you work better with the metadata you produce for publication, product enhancement, supply chain. You want my expertise if you need to enhance existing client relationships, make achievable changes in metadata management, or change how you create, convert, and disseminate your metadata for B2B customers and end users. One of my specialities is using metadata for SEO enhancement.My background is unique. I have academic publication experience as a creator and end user, but also industry experiences as both a metadata librarian who enhances and disseminates metadata for libraries and as a representative of the library industry with publishers of academic content. I know how to bridge gaps between what end users want and how industry pipelines create metadata.My objective is to reinvent the scholarly communications life cycle and better manage digital content discovery through better metadata. I am expanding my skills with end-to-end research about and solutions for metadata workflows at scale. My on-going research interests include: digital humanities projects, open access publication, metadata associated with the publications life cycle, understanding algorithmic bias in research platforms, and music literacy in the medieval monasterySoftware skills: Microsoft 365, SharePoint, G Suite, Python, JSON, Oxygen XML Editor, XQuery, XML, Trello, Asana, Slack, SalesForce, JIRA, Confluence, Adobe Creative Cloud, WordPressMetadata creation and manipulation: EIDR, PBCore, EBUCore, IPTC Video Metadata Hub, EAD, Dublin Core, MODs, XML, XSLT, SPARQL, SKOS, Excel, PoolPartyData Analysis and Visualization Skills: Tableau, Power Bi, Excel, NVivo, Survey Monkey, Qualtrics, Survey GizmoFind me also at Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/murberg/Finde me at ORCID:

Experience

1. Head of Data

   Liblynx - Identity, Access & Analytics For Online Resources

   Jan 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managing all things data related at LibLynx

Education

• Concordia College

  B.A., Music, Religion, Norwegian

  2001 — 2005

• University of Chicago

  M.A., PhD, Music History

  2006 — 2016

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Science in Library and Information Science

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Event Planning
• Music
• Research
• Public Speaking
• Editing
• History
• Teaching
• Higher Education
• Books
• Grant Writing
• Cataloging
• Academic Writing