About

I am a wayward researcher and practitioner of scholarly publishing, and the principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy.

Education

BA, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, 2002

MS, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2013

PhD program, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2003–2005

PhD program, Department of Informatics, University of California–Irvine, 2015–2019

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Other Publications

Elfenbein, Timothy. 2014. “Cultural Anthropology and the Infrastructure of Publishing”. Cultural Anthropology> 29, no. 2: 288–303. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca29.2.06.

Elfenbein, Timothy W. 2013. “Metadata Pragmatics: Toward a Unified Semiotic Framework.” Masters paper, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, School of Library and Information Science, May. https://doi.org/10.17615/yzbs-2j92.

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    Projects

    Assistant Managing Editor, Books Division, Duke University Press, 2008–2011

    Managing Editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2013–2015

    Principal, Forthcoming LLC (a publishing consultancy), 2021–

    Project Manager, Thoth Metadata Management and Dissemination System, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructure for Monographs project, 2021–2022

    Research Affiliate, Invest in Open Infrastructure, 2022–2023

     

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