Ph.D., Information Science & Learning Technology (expected 2028), University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Graduate Certificate in AI & Machine Learning (2025), University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Masters in Interactive Telecommunications (2018), New York University, New York
M.A. (2011) Library and Information Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
B.A. (2008) History, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas
University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2023 - present
New York University Libraries
Head, Digital Scholarship Services
October 2016 - September 2023
New York University Libraries
Digital Scholarship Specialist
December 2013 - October 2016
Gettysburg College
Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian
June 2011 - November 2013
Digital humanities, scholarly communication, open access, new media, bibliometrics, publishing ethics, digital libraries, academic libraries
Leveraging AI in cataloging: What works, and why?
Heather Moulaison-Sandy and Zach Coble
Technical Services Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 4, 2024.
Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ
Zach Coble and Jojo Karlin
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2023.
(Dis)Placed Urban Histories: Combining Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Community Engagement
Zach Coble and Rebecca Amato
In Quick Hits for Teaching Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, Indiana University Press, 2020
Computational Thinking-Centered Pedagogy: A Collecting Data with Web Scraping Workshop
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2020
Collecting Data with Web Scraping
In DLFteach Toolkit: Lesson Plans for Digital Scholarship, edited by Liz Rodrigues and Erin Pappas, 2019
Art and GLAM: Promoting Creative Uses of Archives
Adjacent: ITP and IMA Journal of Emerging Media, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2018
An Investigation of Retracted Articles in the Biomedical Literature
John Budd, Zach Coble, Alison Abritis
Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016
Getting Started With Digital Humanities in Libraries
In Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library, edited by Davis Erin Anderson and Raymond Pun, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
Process as Product: Scholarly Communication Experiments in the Digital Humanities
Zach Coble, Sarah Potvin, Roxanne Shirazi
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(3):eP1137, 2014
Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians
Journal of Digital Humanities, Volume 1, Issue 4, 2012
Retracted Publications in Biomedicine: Cause for Concern
John M. Budd, Zach Coble, Katherine M. Anderson
Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011
ChatGPT Lab Session: LLM Fine-tuning
Large Language Models and Culture: Digital Theory Summer School II
NYU Digital Theory Lab, Prague, June 2023.
Persistent Access to Website Citations in the DH Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis
Zach Coble and Jojo Karlin
Association for Computers and the Humanities 2021 Conference, sine loco, July 2021.
Tools for Emerging and Sustainable Digital Scholarship
Zach Coble and Nickoal Eickmann
Association of Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Institute, sine loco, July 2021.
Wikibabel: Procedural Knowledge Generation using Epistemology, Encyclopedias, and Machine Learning”
Association for Computers and the Humanities 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2019.
Next Generation of Scalable and Sustainable DH Services
Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2019
Creative Text Generation with NLP and Wikipedia
City.AI Data Science Days, New York, New York, June 2019
Old School Web Hosting at an Anything-But-Old-School University
Domains 2019
Durham, North Carolina, June 2019
For Wikibabel, See Algorithmically Generated Encyclopedia: Creative Text Generation Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Kings College London/NYU Digital Theory Summer School
London, UK, May 2019
Collecting Data with Web Scraping
Digital Frontiers/Digital Humanities Forum
Lawrence, Kansas, October 2018.
Using Data from the Web for Social Good
Distributed Web of Care Skillshare Series
New York, New York, July 2018
Machine Learning for Encyclopedias: Wikipedia and Procedural Knowledge Generation
fat cat FAB LAB Machine Learning Night
New York, New York, February 2018.
Web Hosting: Creating Infrastructure for Digital Storytelling
Rebecca Amato, Zach Coble, Bruno Guaraná
Digital Humanities Forum
Lawrence, Kansas, September 2017
Collections as Data: Curation, Access, and Analysis of Library and Archival Digital Material
Summoning the Archive
New York, New York, May 2017
Digital Humanities and Libraries in a Global Context: An Integrated Approach to Supporting Our Advanced Scholars
Zach Coble, Beth Russell
Digital Humanities Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2017
Intro to the Command Line
NYC DH Week
New York, New York, February 2017
Translation Hack-a-thon!: Applying the Translation Toolkit to a Global dh+lib
Sarah Potvin, Élika Ortega, Isabel Galina, Alex Gil, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Patrick Williams, Zoe Borovsky, Roxanne Shirazi, Zach Coble, and Glen Worthey
Digital Humanities 2016
Kraków, Poland, July 2016
The NYU Libraries Web Hosting Pilot: An Update and Lessons Learned
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium
Victoria, British Columbia, June 2016
Digital Preservation Action Session
Zach Coble, Nicholas Schiller
Electronic Literature Organization
Victoria, British Columbia, June 2016
Planning and Designing Digital Humanities Projects
Melissa Beuoy, Zach Coble
City Food Workshop, NYU Shanghai
Shanghai, April 2016
Intro to the Command Line
NYC DH Week
New York, New York, February 2016
Modeling contributorship with TaDiRAH
J. Britt Holbrook, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Micah Vandegrift, Zach Coble, April Hathcock, Korey Jackson
Scholarly Communication Institute
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 2015
Finding Source Material and Keeping Up with your Community
PressForward Institute
Fairfax, Virginia, August 2015
Digital Humanities, Western Europe, and the DiRT Directory
American Libraries Association Annual Conference
San Francisco, June 2015
DSS @ NYU: Digital Scholarship Services in the NYU Libraries
Zach Coble, April Hathcock
American Libraries Association Annual Conference
San Francisco, June 2015
Libraries as Collaborators in Digital Scholarship: Balancing Experimentation and Sustainability
Digital Scholarship Colloquium
Zach Coble, Sarah Potvin, Stewart Varner
Cleveland, Ohio, November 2014
Experimental Scholarly Publishing: Building New Models with Distributed Communities of Practice
Digital Library Federation Forum
Zach Coble, Sarah Potvin, Lisa Rhody, Stephanie Westcott, Jenn Riley, Roxanne Shirazi, Mark Fisher, Andrew Weidner
Atlanta, Georgia, October 2014
Getting an Earful: The Unexpected Services of a Digital Scholarship Unit
Digital Library Federation Forum
Zach Coble, Monica McCormick, Jennifer Vinopal
Atlanta, Georgia, October 2014
Introduction to Omeka Workshop
Zach Coble
Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab’s Omeka Day
New York, New York, June 2014
Digital Humanities: New Roles for Libraries
Rutgers University MLIS Program Colloquium Speaker Series
Monica McCormick, Zach Coble, Kayo Denda, Krista White, Jen Hunter
New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 2014
Intro to Omeka Workshop
THATCamp Harrisburg
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2013
Libraries and Publishing
THATCamp ACRL, Association of College and Research Libraries
Zach Coble, Melanie Schlosser, Stewart Varner
Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2013
Launching an Institutional Repository and Library Publishing Platform with Digital Commons
Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference
Zach Coble, Carolyn Sautter, Janelle Wertzberger
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, October 2012
Using Omeka to Create a Simple and Elegant Digital Library
Zach Coble, Brian Cain
Missouri Library Association
Kansas City, Missouri, October 2011
Retracted Publications in Biomedicine: Cause for Concern
John M. Budd, Zach Coble, Katherine M. Anderson
Association of College and Research Libraries
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2011
Wikibabel: Epistemology, Encyclopedias, and Procedural Knowledge Generation
Fake News Horror Show!
New York, NY, June 2018
Scaling and Diversifying at the Intersection of Digital Humanities and Libraries: An Update from dh+lib
Sarah Potvin, John Russell, Roxanne Shirazi, Caro Pinto, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Patrick Williams, Zach Coble, and Thomas Padilla
Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Austin, Texas, May 2016
PressForward Develops New Models of Scholarly Communication
Association of College and Research Libraries
Stephanie Westcott, Lisa Rhody, Sarah Potvin, Roxanne Shirazi, Zach Coble, Caro Pinto
Portland, Oregon, March 2015
Enhancing Scholarly Communication and Communities with the PressForward Plugin
Digital Humanities 2014 Conference
Joan Fragaszy Troyano, Lisa Rhody, Zach Coble, Roxanne Shirazi, Sarah Potvin, Caro Pinto, Kim Nguyen
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2014
dh+lib: behind the scenes
Zach Coble, Sarah Potvin, Roxanne Shirazi
Digital Library Federation Forum
Austin, Texas, November 2013
ALA Emerging Leaders: Improving Orientation and Enhancing Leadership
American Library Association Annual Conference
Zach Coble, Katlin Heidgerken-Greene, Margaret Heller
Chicago, Illinois, June 2013
The Phenomena of Retraction in Biomedical Literature
John M. Budd, Zach Coble, Katherine M. Anderson
MOBIUS Library Consortium
Columbia, Missouri, June 2010
Co-Primary Investigator, Large Language Models and Culture, NYU Mega Seed Grants, $20,000 award, 2023
Co-Primary Investigator, Geopositioning Art and Architecture: The Liberal Studies Global Image Gallery, NYU
Curricular Development Challenge Fund, $5,000 award, 2022
Primary Investigator, Manifold Digital Services Support Grant, Mellon Foundation, $14,000 award, 2021
Dean’s Award, NYU Libraries, 2016
Outstanding Young Professional, University of Missouri, 2015
American Library Association Emerging Leader, 2013
Kevin Freeman Travel Grant, Music Library Association, 2011
Student Grant Award, North American Serials Interest Group, 2010
Member, ASIS&T Classification and Metadata Research SIG, 2024 - present
Steering Committee, Association for Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Institute, 2020 - 2023
Member, ARL DSI Curriculum Committee, 2020 – 2023
Steering Committee, NYCDH, 2014 - 2023
Chair, NYCDH Student Award Committee, 2017 – 2021
Reviewer, HathiTrust Copyright Review Program, U.S. State & Government Docs, 2017 - 2018
Co-editor, dh+lib, 2012 - 2018
Founding editor, dh+lib Review
Steering Committee, DiRT Directory, 2012 - 2017
Convener, ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group, 2014 - 2015
Member, ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee, 2013 - 2015
Editor, Scholarly Communication Column, College & Research Libraries News, 2013 - 2015
Member, LITA Publications Committee, 2012 - 2014
Member, ACRL Professional Development Coordinating Committee, 2012 - 2014
Organizer, LibHack Hackathon, 2014
Contributor, digitalcultureweek, University of Michigan Press, 2012
Co-chair, Technical Arrangements & Support Conference Committee, Pennsylvania Library Association, 2012 - 2013
Conference Volunteer, ACRL Cyber Zed Shed, 2011
Conference Volunteer, Missouri Library Association, 2010
Treasurer, ALA Student Chapter, University of Missouri, 2009 - 2011
Association for Information Science and Technology
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Association for Computing and the Humanities