Trevor Owens

I’m an information technology specialist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. Before coming to the Library of Congress I was the community lead for the Zotero project  at the Center for History and New Media and before that I worked for the Games, Learning, and Society Conference.I’m interested in how learning and knowledge work in online communities, games and learning, software tools for humanities scholarship. I also have a background in the history of science and science communication. I wrote a book for Arcadia Press about the history of Fairfax County told through postcards. I’ve also published articles in the journals Simulation & Gaming, Science Communication, and Cultural Studies of Science Education. In 2009 I was chosen by Read Write Web as one of the 50+ Semantic Web Pros to Follow on Twitter, and won the CW Bright Pixel Prize in my masters program for building PlayingHistory, an open collaborative directory of digital historical games and interactives.I received my bachelors degree in the history of science form the University of Wisconsin, and my masters degree in American History with and emphasis on digital history at George Mason University. I’m also a violinist, I like to read graphic novels, and I am a big fan of my dogs Bowser and Zelda. I live in