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John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. His passion for creating and sharing free, open, pragmatic digital solutions has guided his long public sector career. As a Berkeley undergrad in computer science and mathematics, he wrote software that comes pre-installed in every Mac and Linux system. He had leading roles in establishing identifier standards (URL, ARK), metadata standards (Dublin Core), archiving standards (BagIt, WARC), the Z39.50 library protocol, UC Berkeley’s first Campus Wide Information System, and repository microservices used in HathTrust and OCFL. He is currently leading the ARK Alliance (arks.org) forward and serving as a senior research associate at Drexel University, where he is working on the crowdsourced vocabulary tool, yamz.net. Full bio at jkunze.net.