Ashley Hamblin
Information and Data Analyst
Idaho National Laboratory
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-hamblin-988b86104/
Ashley Hamblin is the Data and Information Analyst for the Documents and Records team at the Idaho National Laboratory. Her job responsibilities include working on creating a universal data structure for all records and documents, managing data integrations between systems, improving search and creating data catalogs. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University in 2007 and had a career in nursing for several years. While working in public health she discovered an interest in digital health information and decided to pursue a master’s degree in information science. She graduated with a Master of Information Sciences and Master of Library Sciences with an emphasis in digital libraries from Indiana University in 2016. Previous experiences have included working as the metadata and taxonomy analyst for a publishing department, a circulation supervisor in an academic library, helping with a mass digitization effort of media at Indiana University, participating in a working group to create an ontology to describe archaeological artifacts, and creating and managing a relational database. While attending Indiana University, she discovered a passion for metadata, ontologies, and linked data and their future uses in discoverability.
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