Technology Development and Leadership

Wide range of experiences with backback-end and front-end technologies. Specialty in data processing.

Focus Area: Privacy

Leading library efforts to review and standardize privacy protections.

DUL Data Privacy and Retention Task Force (Chair)
DUL Data Privacy and Retention Audit (Project with Joyce Chapman)
Achieving Privacy in the Age of Analytics: A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics (Attendee)

Data processing script projects
- Top Textbook/Course Reserves data processing (restricted access)
  - JavaScript code to transform data from FOLIO APIs for searchable public UI
  - Python script to push reserves usage data from Splunk index API into a database
  - Jupyter notebook to help process course registration and textbook data
- FOLIO Schema parser (Designer and developer, 2020)
- Zoss, Angela M. (2018). Network Visualization Literacy: Task, Context, and Layout. (Data analysis code repository for doctoral dissertation.)
FOLIO Analytics Query Development
Faceted browsing for lightweight digital exhibits
- Visualizing the Future Examples Repository (prototype)
- Wax Facets (an additional theme for Wax that includes faceted browsing)

Chair, DiversifyIT Programming Sub-Committee. September 2023 to present.
Organizer, Duke Libraries Data and Reporting Learning Group. October 2022 to present.
Member, DiversifyIT Committee. September 2022 to present.
Co-organizer, Summit for DUL Scrum developers and Product Owners. March 2023.
Additional team members: Will Sexton.
Convener, FOLIO Reporting Special Interest Group (SIG). May 2021 to present.
Additional team members: Sharon Beltaine (Co-Convener, January 2023 to present).
Co-organizer, Retreat for Duke Digital Repositry developers and stakeholders. May 2022.
Additional team members: Will Sexton, Ayse Durmaz.
Chair, Data Privacy and Retention Task Force. February 2020 to August 2021.
Additional team members: Arnetta Girardeau, Jack Hill, Brooke Guthrie, Ciara Healy, Shadae Gatlin, Abby Wickes, Tim McGeary (ex officio).
Convener, Duke Libraries FOLIO Reporting Working Group. February 2020 to July 2020.
Additional team members: Heather Baker, Lauren Crowell, Dee McCullough, Jianying Shou, Matthew Harrington.

phenom: A Population Growth Modeling Web App for Microbiologists
May 2022 to August 2022
You, Me, and IT: a series on identity in IT work
August 2021 to May 2022
Wax Facets
January 2021 to September 2021
Reviewing Library Data Privacy and Retention Practices
September 2018 to August 2021
Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) Fellows Program - Cohort 1
December 2020 to June 2021
Mental Disorders Over Time
June 2014 to January 2016

Kouper, Inna, Zoss, Angela M., Edelblute, Trevor, Boyles, Michael and Ekbia, Hamid. (2016). Mental Disorders Over Time: A Dictionary-Based Approach to the Analysis of Knowledge Domains. Paper presented at iConference 2016 Proceedings, Philadelphia, PA. doi:10.9776/16303

Zoss, Angela, Gatlin, Shadae, Girardeau, Arnetta, Guthrie, Brooke, Healy, Ciara, Hill, Jack, Wickes, Abigail, and McGeary, Tim. (2021). Priorities and Guiding Principles for Protecting Patron Privacy. Public report on the work of the Duke University Libraries’ Data Privacy and Retention Task Force from spring 2020 to spring 2021.
Chapman, Joyce and Zoss, Angela M. (2020). Duke Libraries Data Privacy and Retention Audit Report. Public report on the results of a data privacy and retention audit conducted at Duke University Libraries in the fall of 2019.

Accepted participant, Achieving Privacy in the Age of Analytics: A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics (September 12-14, 2018). Organized by Scott W. H. Young, Sara Mannheimer, Jason A. Clark, Lisa Hinchliffe, and Jacqueline Frank at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Zoss, Angela. (March 17, 2023). Building a community of practice around library data. Presentation at Code4Lib 2023, Princeton, New Jersey and streaming online via YouTube.
Aghassibake, Negeen, Joque, Justin, Ozeran, Megan, & Zoss, Angela. (November 03, 2021). Positioning Ourselves for Critical Data Work. Presentation at Visualizing the Future 2021 Public Symposium, virtual.
Klein, Jo, Wilkinson Saldaña, Cass, and Zoss, Angela M. (November 9, 2020). Using Wax and Jekyll to build minimal digital projects. Tutorial at 2020 DLF Forum, virtual.
Forzetting, Sarah, Sidman, Angela and Zoss, Angela M. (March 11, 2020). Protecting patron privacy - what are the issues and what can we do?. Panel presentation at 2020 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference (ER&L2020), Austin, TX.
Zoss, Angela M. (March 9, 2020). Building an Open Source Reporting Platform for FOLIO. Poster presentation at 2020 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference (ER&L2020), Austin, TX.