Ben Vershbow

Ben Vershbow has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for over 20 years in a varied career spanning the Institute for the Future of the Book, the New York Public Library (NYPL Labs), and most recently, the Wikimedia Foundation. Ben joins the GLAM-E Lab as a Research Fellow focused on lowering technical barriers to GLAM institutions seeking to share open collections effectively into the internet ecosystem. He’s in the early stages of incubating a new venture focused on strengthening the software layer between open cultural collections and platforms like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive. Ben works globally from Philadelphia.