Daniel A. Santamaria

Daniel A. Santamaria is director of digital collections and archives at Tufts University. He previously served as head of technical services at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University from 2005 to 2014. At Princeton he led projects related to digitization, description, and discovery that have received national recognition, including the Society of American Archivists' 2013 Coker Award for innovative developments in archival description. He previously worked at the New York Public Library and both the Special Collections Library and the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. He holds an MSI from the University of Michigan's School of Information and a BA in History from Wesleyan University. He is the author of Designing Descriptive and Access Systems, a module within the Society of American Archivists' Trends in Archival Practice series. He also developed and teaches SAA's “Implementing More Product, Less Process” workshop and teaches advanced archival description in the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.