Faculty Profiles
David Fiora
Technical Services Librarian
Cushwa-Leighton Library
121 Cushwa-Leighton Library
dflora@saintmarys.edu
"Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them."
- Virgil
Education
- Master of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Cincinnati (History)
Areas of Expertise
- Technical Services
- Electronic Resource Management
- Metadata
- Collection Development
- Cataloging
Research Interests
- Linked Data & Wikidata
- Information Management
- Digital Libraries
- Information Technology
- Open Access Resources
Professional Experience
- Library of Congress
- US Copyright Office, Cincinnati
- Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Fiora, D. (2025, June) Wikidata and repositories: opening up the future, 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, IL. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758422
Professional Memberships
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging
- Entity Management Cooperative Linked Data for Libraries: Wikidata Affinity Group
- Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians
- Academic Libraries of Indiana
- Electronic Resources & Libraries