Tom Johnson is the DPLA Metadata and Platform Architect, where he helps to further improve DPLA’s metadata model and related infrastructure and to expand upon its work with linked open data. Tom is a digital librarian, programmer, and metadata expert with a strong commitment to open cultural heritage. Tom came to DPLA from Oregon State University, where he worked on digital curation, scholarly publication, and related software and metadata issues as Digital Applications Librarian and Assistant Professor.