Kat Hagedorn is currently the Special Projects Coordinator for HathiTrust. She is responsible for coordinating, managing and maintaining momentum on such initiatives as the Research Center (non-consumptive research on HathiTrust texts) and The Cloud Library (services for institutions interested in accessing and preserving print and digital texts not in their libraries). She is also responsible for the provision of HathiTrust metadata through the University of Michigan Library's OAI data provider, keeping participating libraries' data current and ensuring the software is up-to-date and usable for institutions.
Ms. Hagedorn is transitioning the management of the OAIster project, a search gateway for OAI harvested records leading to digital objects, to OCLC in October 2009 with full ingestion of content and harvesting happening at OCLC before January 2010. The OAIster project was initially Mellon-funded in 2001-2002, and lived at the University of Michigan for eight years before it found a better, more broadly accessible home at OCLC.
She chaired the Library's Usability Group from 2005-2007 and is currently a core member of the group. In 2005, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Her previous experience is in information architecture (with the Argus Associates firm) and ontology and taxonomy consulting (with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome). Ms. Hagedorn received her MLS from the University of Michigan School of Information in 1996.
