About

I am Raymond Yee, the primary author of Data Unbound.

I am a data architect, consultant, trainer, and author of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Services (Apress, 2008).   I work for CHHM, George Mason University, as the  Zotero Integration Advisor.   I am currently a visiting scholar at the School of Information, UC Berkeley, where I have taught the course “Mixing and Remixing Information”.  While earning a Ph.D. in biophysics, I taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus.  I am the primary architect of the Scholar’s Box, software that enables users to gather digital content from multiple sources to create personal collections that can be shared with others. As a software architect and developer, I focus on developing software to support learning, teaching, scholarship, and research.

I am an erstwhile tubaist, admirer of J. S. Bach, Presbyterian elder, aspiring essayist, son of industrious Chinese-Canadian restaurateurs, and devoted husband of the incomparable Laura.

In this weblog, I will write about issues related to the work I have done as a data architect, primarily in the context of research universities and libraries. I anticipate writing about such topic as:

  • data architecture–what it is and how one does it
  • the relationship between data architecture and other forms of information technology architecture
  • research, teaching, and administrative data in higher education
  • cyberinfrastructure
  • service-oriented enterprise architectures
  • what we are doing specifically at the Zotero Project and UC Berkeley
  • IT organizations
  • IT staff development
  • scholarly data
  • scholarly workflow automation
  • digital libraries
  • educational technology
  • collaboration, presentation, and analysis tools

Note:

The opinions or statements expressed on this weblog are those of the author, Raymond Yee. They are not necessarily those of my bosses, colleagues, or clients.