Devon Murphy
Metadata Professional

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Devon Murphy (they/them) is a metadata and digital collections professional, overseeing standards, policies, and data models for a variety of library and archive holdings. Current work projects include PANA (Pan-American Authorities project with the University of Florida) to create a Spanish language thesaurus and being a member of the PCC Task Group on Metadata Relating to Indigenous Peoples. Personal projects conducted outside of work hours include working on the follow-up to the Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources, focusing on queer metadata needs. Murphy has worked in various positions at the University of Texas at Austin and as a Getty Graduate Intern (2019-2020), creating Getty Vocabulary records and policies. They received dual masters degrees in Art History and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019), examining information systems in art museums, including cataloging of Cherokee baskets by Native and non-Native institutions.