Jennifer is one of the co-Executive Directors for the XC Organization and her responsibilities include advising the XC Team on metadata issues, developing the XC metadata application profile, planning and participating in the governance model for the XC Community, and serving as a contact for XC partners and potential partners.
Jennifer holds masters degrees in library science and historical musicology from the University of Michigan. She has spent her career as a librarian working in the areas of cataloging and metadata, initially as a specialist in music cataloging. In recent years she has focused her research on metadata standards development (RDA), the FRBR data model, and the use of legacy library metadata in next-generation discovery systems.
When she is not working on XC, Jennifer can often be found driving her kids to music/dance lessons, refinishing old furniture, and working in her garden - often while listening to opera, much to her family’s dismay!