Curriculum Vitae

Education and Professional Background

Degrees:

  • MHIS, University of Idaho
    • Moscow, Idaho
      • 2024-Present
  • MLIS, University of Washington
    • Seattle, Washington
      • 2022
  • BA, Evergreen State College
    • Olympia, Washington
      • 2019

Experience:

Teaching, Extension and Research Appointments

  • Digital Pedagogy Specialist Web and Instructional Materials Development, University of Oregon DREAM Lab, 2021-2022

  • Research Assistant, Web Development University of Washington Near Eastern Languages Department, 2022

  • Research Assistant, Network Visualization, University of Washington Near Eastern Languages Department, Summer 2021

Non-Academic Employment:

  • Digital Media Editor, HistoryLink, Sourcing historic material, surveying current collections and developing batch import and alt text functions. Seattle, WA, 2022-2023

  • Archivist, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room, Processing, descriptive and born digital work on various collections. Tacoma, WA, 2021-2023

Teaching Accomplishments

Areas of Specialization

Digital Scholarship, Web Development, Digital Preservation, Project Management, Exhibit Design, Data and Network Visualization, Python Software Development

Students Advised

Graduate Students

  • Gus Labayan,
    • Berry Fellowship, 2025
  • Megan Caves,
  • Nick Koenig,

Undergraduate Students

  • Melissa Beals
    • Text Mining Tool Development for Research Project, 2025.
  • Shelley Walker-Harmon,
    • CDIL Fellowship, 2025.
  • Jacob Kuenning
  • Dakota Steffen,
    • CDIL Fellowship, 2024.
  • Irene Koreski,

Staff Advised

  • Lex Van Horn,
    • Ongoing consultation to help develop Lex’s VERSOMetadataProject, 2025.

Materials Developed

Open Educational Resources

(teaching resources shared for access and re-use; created as part of librarian’s Teaching area of responsibility)

  • Adobe Premiere Transcript Workshop [Open educational resource for University of Idaho faculty, staff and students on using Adobe Premiere to generate transcripts. The workshop explains how to edit the transcript material, export or convert to captions.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/premiere_transcripts/

  • Adobe PDF Accessibility Remediation Workshop [Open educational resource for U of I staff, faculty and students for manually remediating PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/remediate_pdfs

  • Introduction to Zotero [Introductory guide to using the citation manager Zotero to organize scholarly materials, create bibliographies, summarize annotations, collaborate on group projects and preserve your research for future reference. Created for the Spring 2025 U of I Information Landscape series.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/zotero_intro

  • University of Idaho VERSO Guide [Introductory presentation for students, staff, and faculty engaging with the University of Idaho Library’s VERSO institutional repository platform. The guide walks through how VERSO functions, how to create a profile if data harvesting hasn’t done so already, how to add scholarly work, edit your author profile, and hide any work you don’t want to be public.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/verso_intro

  • Using Python Tools and Obsidian to Connect and Visualize Research [Presentation on using custom Python tools to correct optical character recognition layers, extract annotations from digitized text, and contextualize these notes using Obsidian’s detailed tagging methods to enrich scholarly research.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/python_obsidian

  • Using OpenRefine to Standardize Metadata Language [Practical guide to using OpenRefine for metadata language standardization, intended for faculty, staff, patrons, and students at the University of Idaho.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/or_standardize

  • College of Agricultural & Life Sciences Liaison Introduction [Reference site for introducing undergraduate students of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences to myself, how my work corresponds with their studies, and the various library resources available to help them produce scholarly work.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/cals_intro

  • Digital Geolocation Tools for Archival Research [Workshop teaching geolocation tools and methodologies to identify archival photographs lacking metadata to enrich resources. Created for the U of I Information Landscape series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/geolocation

  • Distant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections [Workshop on using Python and App Script to create subject tags across complete oral history collections and empower student workers to run, modify and expand these tags during the copy editing process. Created for the Datahub Tech Talk series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/distant_listening

  • Using Digital Scholarship to Conduct and Present Historical Research [Workshop for Ellen Kittell’s History 290 Course.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/ds_hr

  • How to Find Copyright Free Photos, Audio or Video of Almost Anything [Created for the Information Landscape series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/source_cr_free

Website and Database Development

(specific digital collection and web projects completed as part of librarian’s “Teaching” area of responsibility)

Non-Credit Classes, Workshops, Seminars, Invited Lectures, etc.

Workshops

  • Creating Geographic Animation Using Google Earth Studio [Presentation for the 2025 University of Idaho Library Tech Talk Series.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/ges_geo_vis

  • Using Embodiment and Audio Narrative to Present Historical Research [Presentation created for Alyssa Kreikemeier’s HIST424 Environmental History course on using embodiment in field recording, interviewing and utilizing oral history recordings to restructure scholarly work to the audio narrative medium and enrich your research.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/embody_audio

  • Premiere Workshop [Informal presentation with members of Special Collections on using Adobe Premiere for audio transcription, how it works, privacy considerations, and how to format output for the Oral History as Data template.] 2024,

  • Analytics Workshop [Introductory workshop for U of I library faculty about how GA4 is set up across the library site, getting access to analytics, reading and refining the series of Looker Studio templates I created for the many library teams, and the limitations and misconceptions of what this data can tell us. Co-created with Digital Infrastructure Librarian Evan Williamson.] 2024,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaxfRajpcU

  • AVS 463 Library Resources Presentation [Updating workshop site originally created by Hanwen Dong for Amy Skibiel’s Animal and Veterinary Science 463 Growth and Lactation class.] 2024,
    https://hanwendong1.github.io/avs463

  • Digital Geolocation Tools for Archival Research [Workshop teaching geolocation tools and methodologies to identify archival photographs lacking metadata to enrich resources. Created for the U of I Information Landscape series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/geolocation

  • Distant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections [Workshop on using Python and App Script to create subject tags across complete oral history collections and empower student workers to run, modify and expand these tags during the copy editing process. Created for the Datahub Tech Talk series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/distant_listening

  • Collection Builder Workshop [Two hour workshop concluding my Research Assistant position with Selim Kuru at the University of Washington recapping how to maintain and expand the CB database for future use.] 2022,
    https://gnmedatabase.github.io/site

  • Omeka Workshop [Designed curriculum and taught a three part workshop with Elliot Stevens and the University of Washington’s Digital Humanities department.] 2021.

  • Bibliographic Mobile Platforms Workshop [Invited to host a workshop on utilizing bibliographic software Zotero, Papership, and Zoo for Zotero to make coursework more accessible for adult learners.] 2019.

Scholarship Accomplishments

(Including scholarship of teaching and learning, artistic creativity, discovery, and application/integration)

Publications, Exhibitions, Performances, Recitals

Peer Reviewed/Evaluated

  • Rebecca Hastings and Andrew Weymouth, “Transparent Practices: OCR and AI in the Archives,” [Accepted article examining Optical Character Recognition through the lens of archival ethics, drawing parallels between early National Archives and Records Administration assessments of OCR and current debates surrounding artificial intelligence. Forthcoming from Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals.]
    https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cjx

  • Andrew Weymouth, “A Sense of Place: Visualizing Oral History”, [Forthcoming chapter of edited volume from the University of Toronto Press, under the UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series.]
    https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/assembling-natures-histories

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Distant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections”, Code4Lib, April 14, 2025.
    https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18286

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Civilizing, Separating and Organizing: The Geographic Influence on Nineteenth Century Western Libraries”, [Opening chapter to] Land in Libraries, Litwin Publishing, 2023.
    https://litwinbooks.com/books/land-in-libraries

  • Mary McDonald, Alyssa Puddicombe, Andrew Weymouth, Aubrey Williams, “Methods for Collecting Oral Histories Amidst a Crisis”, The Serials Librarian, 2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2021.1985685

Software Development (generalized code developed and published for re-use)

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Opticolumn” [OCR tool developed over summer and fall of 2025. The tool implements the TrOCR text recognition model and the Kraken BLLA page segmentation model to improve the accuracy of handwritten and cursive archival documents and add digital preservation metadata to processed materials. The tool was developed for overhauling the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning’s digital PDF files, to make the collection more discoverable and accessible.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/opticolumn

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Timestamp Generator” [Site created so student workers can easily copy time codes to enrich oral history transcripts. Students can access the page, drop their audio or visual files in and every time the user pauses the media, that time stamp is generated in a box below, which can be copied to their clipboard by select a button to the right. Created for enhancing legacy transcripts from the Rural Women’s History Project, so they can be utilized in the CDIL’s Oral History as Data platform.] 2025,
    https://scholarly-projects.github.io/timestamp_generator_site

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Convert_Legacy_Transcript” [Python tool created to identify speaker names, transcript and dialogue of legacy printed transcripts and convert them into individual rows of within a CSV file format. Created to utilize work done during the 70s and 80s for the Rural Women’s History Project oral history initiative, to ultimately migrate them to U of I’s Oral History as Data platform.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/convert_legacy_transcript

  • Andrew Weymouth, “OCR_Scanner” [Python tool that scans specific folders and identifies all of the PDF files lacking a layer of optical character recognition. Identified PDF files are generated in a CSV file alongside their parent folder. Created to have U of I digital collections meet accessibility standards for patrons using screen readers.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/ocr_scanner

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Illustration_Extraction” [Python tool utilizing the rembg computer vision model to identify and extract musical notation from Huo Becker’s Mechanik und Aesthetik des Violoncellspiels (1922) for use in Miranda Wilson’s CDIL project, School of Cello Music.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/illustration_extraction

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Review_Miner” [Text mining and sentiment analysis tool created for an undergraduate senior research reference request, designed to analyze reviews of tourist destinations by year, rating, trip type and underlying sentiment of text and title.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/review_miner

  • Andrew Weymouth, “PDF_Compressor” [Open source Python tool to help U of I students compress PDF files and keep data volume low thereby keeping citation managers like Zotero free to use.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/pdf_compressor

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Abstract_Scraper” [Python tool for analyzing large JSON datasets, scraping missing scholarly information and generating complete JSON files to help enrich data for U of I’s VERSO institutional repository.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/abstract_scraper

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Edge_Detector” [Python tool implementing rembg[isnet] salient object detection models created for University of Idaho to facilitate web hosting special collections and archeological projects. Images are detected, extracted and batch processed into subsequent folders with transparent, white or black backgrounds.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/edge_detector

  • Andrew Weymouth, “PII_Scanner” [Python tool which vets batches of PDF file OCR for sensitive information such as social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers using regular expressions and outputting CSV files with corresponding filenames.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/pii_scanner

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Assess_Differences_CSV” [Developed for long-term static web projects with large datasets, this tool offers a more readable and targeted alternative to GitHub’s diff view by comparing changes between versions of metadata files and generating a minimal CSV of only pertinent lines and changes.] 2025,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/assess_differences_csv

  • Andrew Weymouth, “RSS Scraper” [Python tool developed to collect and format metadata into CSVs after filtering out programmatic language and import both audio and video files included in the feed. Media files are converted to MP4 and MP3 and formatted CSVs are generated with the scraped RSS metadata and corresponding sequential file names.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/rss_scraper

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Read_Image Optical Character Recognition Tool” [Iteration of an OCR tool developed by Luke Sheneman, Director of the IBEST Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) at the University of Idaho to help extract text from image files to enrich alt text metadata.] 2024,
    https://indd.adobe.com/view/db718d34-da0b-40fe-b21a-0d0d86d0b99e

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Trello_Export Tool” [Tool for exporting archived Trello cards, categorized by label to help track activity for liaison reports and annual reviews.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/book_splitter

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Book_Splitter Tool” [Python tool for quickly splitting two-page scans to increase OCR accuracy.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/trello_export

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Annotation_Extraction Tool” [Tool created to extract text from annotated PDFs and export it categorically and chronologically to markdown files for visualization and connection-building within Obsidian.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/annotation_extraction

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Transcript_Mining Tool” [Developed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the University of Idaho Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies department’s Oral History as Data tagging process. Users can iterate by dropping new transcription sets into the CSV folder and running the Python script.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/transcript_mining_base

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Web Scraper” [Python tool to extract contact information from the web to expedite liaison work.] 2024.
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/web_scraper

  • Andrew Weymouth, “Image Extraction Tool” [Python tool for extracting multiple images within single images and assigning archival naming conventions for overhead scans of scrapbook material.] 2024,
    https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/image_extraction

Presentations and Other Activities

  • The Tideflats: Distance and Environmental Psychology [Created for the Resist, Reclaim, Restore: Preserving an Inclusive Heritage, Society of Architectural Historians 2025 mini-conference. The paper examines the history of land use in the Tideflats, an industrial area in Tacoma, Washington.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/tideflats

  • Image Extraction for Overhead Scans and Archaeological Photographs [Presentation for the Visual Resources Association Conference on using computer vision Python tools to extract individual photographs from overhead scans of scrapbooks and using edge detections tools to isolate archaeological items from context photographs.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/vra_2025

  • Using Geographic Visualizations to Enrich Oral History Recordings [Presentation for the 2025 Western Association of Map Libraries Conference on previous experience working with the Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive and future work exploring the concept with open-source, non-proprietary platforms.] 2025,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/geo_viz_oh/

  • Preserving and Enriching Podcast Projects: A Workflow for Small Teams [Poster presentation for the 2025 Northwest Archivist Conference outlining process developed over the course of creating the Context Podcast Digital Collection.] 2025,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um2QX9Y2zj8

  • Aerial Time Lapse Tools Survey [Survey of five platforms that researchers can use to generate aerial time-lapse visualizations, highlighting their unique strengths, weaknesses, and the technical skills required for each. Created for the 25th annual University of Idaho GIS Day Short Talk series.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/aerial_timelapse

  • Text Mining Strategies for Transcribing and Tagging Oral History Collections [Part of the Seven Minute Scholarship Presentations for the Loyola Marymount University Digital Commons Conference.] 2024,
    https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/irdlconference/2024

  • Humanizing Nature Research History with Static Web Technology [Presentation for UCLA Library’s Captivity: Assembling Nature’s Histories detailing my experience creating interpretive materials for the Taylor Wilderness Research Station digital collection.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/humanizing

  • Collaborating with Community Archives to Increase Access to Collections [Created for the 2024 Northwest Archivist conference, this presentation details my experience collaborating with the Filipino American National Historical Society to create an article on the Alaskero migratory laborers, and explores being mindful of bias when engaging with community heritage spaces that don’t look or function like institutional archives.] 2024,
    https://aweymo-ui.github.io/community

  • Mapping Language [Community Archives Panel, City of Tacoma Historic Preservation Month.] 2022.

Grants and Contracts Awarded:

Other

  • CLASS-AFS Travel Grant [Research trip to Spokane’s Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture to digitize materials for history thesis on the progression of early commercial imagery in the Inland Empire.] Spring 2025.

  • PI: Devin Becker, Traci Craig, Evan Williamson, Heather Taff, Sarah Campbell, Chelsea Franklin, Mindy Flick, Erica Frazier, Kate Powers-Kusio, “Digital Dramaturgy” National Endowment for the Humanities - Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Awarded and postponed indefinitely. Spring, 2025 [named co-investigator].

Other Writing

Awards and Internships

  • Storytelling Fellows, University of Washington (2022), resulting work

  • VRAF Internship Award (2021-2022), award, impact

  • Vollstedt Internship, University of Oregon (2021)

  • iStamp Mentorship, University of Washington (2020-2021)

Service

Major Committee Assignments

University

  • Safety and Loss Prevention Committee
    • Member, 2024
    • Chair, 2025

Search Committees

  • Archives Coordinator, 2024
  • Instruction and User Services Librarian, 2024
  • Digital Projects Manager, 2024
  • Research Impact Librarian Search Committee, 2023

Library Organizations

  • Digital Collections Team Lead, 2024
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2024
  • Bylaw Review Board, 2024
  • College of Agricultural & Life Sciences Liaison, 2024

Professional and Scholarly Organizations

  • Northwest Archivists, Inc., 2021-Present
  • Society of American Archivists, Committee on Public Awareness Board Member, 2021-2023

Outreach Service

Articles and Posts

Interview articles and press

Community Service

  • Crafts Program Volunteer, St. John Public Library, Portland, Oregon, 2019

Professional Development

Scholarship

  • “Loyola Marymount University Digital Commons,” 2024
  • “DLF Conference,” [virtual] 2024
  • “Northwest Archivist Conference,” 2024
  • “Colonial Legacies and the History and Present of the Mexican Migrants in Idaho with Dr. Eulalia Gallegos Buitron,” 2024
  • “Sustainable Outreach,” Northwest Archivist Conference, 2024
  • “AI Workshop Series,” [Four part U of I workshop] 2024
  • “Proposal Development Academy,” [10 part U of I course] 2024
  • “DLF Conference,” 2023

Administration/Management

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