Katherine Skinner, PhD, is the executive director of the Educopia Institute. In this role, she has helped to found the MetaArchive Cooperative, the Library Publishing Coalition, the BitCurator Consortium, and the Software Preservation Network. Skinner received her PhD in American Studies from Emory University. She has co-edited four books and has authored and co-authored numerous reports and articles, including Community Cultivation – A Field Guide (2018) and Open Knowledge Institutions (2021). She has served as lead principal investigator on seventeen research projects, and she regularly teaches graduate courses on curation, preservation, and scholarly communications.

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"One of the things I think is a really significant opportunity in LIS today in the curation and preservation area has to do with the politics of preservation. The choices we make about what it is that we preserve are deeply political. For example, paying attention to how marginalized communities are not reflected in some of the cultural collections we are collecting and starting to make deliberate steps to repair that problem is both a really significant problem and a significant opportunity."

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