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jairomelo/README.md

👋 Hi, I'm Jairo,

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Historian & digital humanist focused on building sustainable research infrastructure in the humanities.

My expertise lies in backend development, data modeling, and research data curation, particularly within collaborative and community-centered digital humanities initiatives.

I currently serve as Digital Humanities Research Facilitator at UCSB Library, helping researchers transition from spreadsheets to relational databases, metadata workflows, and open-source digital tools.

📌 Current Projects

  • TrayectoriasAfro.org
    Django + DRF + SvelteKit platform mapping lives and movements of enslaved individuals.

  • GeoResolver
    Python library resolving historical place names using Getty TGN, Wikidata, and GeoNames.

  • Sondondo Parish Records
    Probabilistic record linkage and data modeling of Peruvian parish registers (1760‑1921).

📁 Featured Projects

  • Imagining Futures
    UK-based repository supporting community-driven archival and memory practices (2022).

  • Neogranadina
    Collaboration with a Colombian NGO on digital preservation, historical memory, and archival justice.

🧰 Tech Stack

🤝 Let's Collaborate

Happy to connect on:

  • Digital history and archival platforms
  • Backend development for DH tools
  • Historical data pipelines & entity reconciliation
  • Community‑centered or multilingual DH collaborations

🌐 Find Me

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  1. paress2 paress2 Public

    Esta librería permite realizar descargas automatizadas de archivos del Portal de Archivos Españoles PARES2.0.

    Python 1

  2. GeoResolver GeoResolver Public

    Gazetteer-based resolver, combining TGN (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names), WHG, GeoNames, and Wikidata. It takes structured place names (like “Paris, France”) and attempts to resolve them again…

    Python

  3. mstdb_manager mstdb_manager Public

    Python 1

  4. mstdb_theme mstdb_theme Public

    Svelte 1

  5. ImaginingFutures/imagining ImaginingFutures/imagining Public

    PHP

  6. ImaginingFutures/collectors_app ImaginingFutures/collectors_app Public

    JavaScript