Owen King is the Wikidata Fellow at the Atkins Library. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in information science at UNC Chapel Hill. His main interests relate to digital collections and their metadata, and he sees well-designed metadata systems as the key to expanding collections’ reach and impact. In assisting the Atkins Library’s contributions to Wikidata, Owen will help ensure that accurate information about authors from the UNC Charlotte community is broadly accessible across the Internet.
Before his Atkins Fellowship, Owen was an intern at the State Archives of North Carolina, where he analyzed and developed systems for digital preservation metadata. Prior to his work in information science, Owen was a philosopher, with research focused on value theory, especially well-being and information ethics. He received a PhD in philosophy at The Ohio State University in 2016, and he has held teaching and research positions in philosophy departments at Oberlin College and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.