Daniel Johnson
University of Iowa
Digital Preservation Librarian
Iowa City, IA
Daniel Johnson is the Digital Preservation Librarian at The University of Iowa. Previously Johnson worked as a digital archivist at The HistoryMakers African American Video Oral History Archive and as a project archivist for the Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Extremist and Dissenting Printed Propaganda at Brown University. Johnson has experience working in digital archives and digital preservation including: digitization, digital file management, digital preservation best practices and standards, reformatting and digital preservation workflows, web archiving, audio visual reformatting, metadata creation and management (relational databases and xml) and project management. Johnson earned his B.A. degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007 and his MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.