Nicholas Taylor
https://nullhandle.org/ Santa Fe, NMEducation
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD –
Employment
Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy and Services, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM – Present Full-Time
Self
Santa Fe, NM – Present Contract
Program and Product Strategy Consultant
Webrecorder Software
Santa Fe, NM – Contract
Library Technology Specialist
Supreme Court of the United StatesWashington, DC – Full-Time
Ads Quality Rater
GoogleArlington, VA – Part-Time
Ads Quality Rater
GoogleArlington, VA – Part-Time
Support Center Technician
Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez LLPLos Angeles, CA – Full-Time
Help Desk Support Specialist
Service Employees International UnionLos Angeles, CA – Full-Time
Service
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- The Archives Unleashed Project - Phase II Advisory Board Member –
- Building Financial Resilience in the Digital Infrastructure for Research and Teaching in the Humanities Invited Participant
- Webrecorder Advisory Board Member –
- Documenting the Now Advisory Board Member –
Association for Computing Machinery / IEEE Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Member
- General Committee Member
CLOCKSS Archive
- Scope Working Group Member –
Coalition for Networked Information
- Executive Roundtable: Recent Developments in Research Data Management Participant
- Executive Roundtable: Data Science as a Research Support Service and the Role of Libraries Participant
- Executive Roundtable: Responding to the Move of Content to the Cloud Participant
- Executive Roundtable: Cloud Hosting vs. Local Hosting: Choices and Implications Participant
International Internet Preservation Consortium
- Steering Committee Member – Present
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member
- Web Archiving Conference Session Chair
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member and Session Chair
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Chair and Session Chair
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member
- Web Archiving Conference Program Committee Member
- Web Archiving Conference Organizer
International Journal on Digital Libraries
- Guest Issue Reviewer
- Special Issue Editorial Board Member
- Guest Issue Reviewer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Artificial Intelligence Technology Lab Steering Committee Member – Present
- Data Management Technical Advisory Council Member – Present
- Department of Energy Fusion XIII Organizing Committee Member
Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop
World Wide Web Consortium Digital Publishing Interest Group
- Archival Task Force Member
2016
Presentations
"Publications as Data for AI"
Invited
17 September 2025
Department of Energy Fusion XIII
Santa Fe, NM
"A keyphrase suggestion engine for semi-automated document characterization"
Reviewed
Vancouver, Canada16 November 2023
Vancouver, Canada
"Beyond the Affidavit: Towards Better Standards for Web Archive Evidence"
Reviewed
Santa Fe, NM3 May 2023
Santa Fe, NM
"An Experiment in Investment Decision-Making: Agile Portfolio Management in a Research Library" 
Lemont, IL25 April 2023
Lemont, IL
"Agile community of practice across DOE national laboratories"
Reviewed
Albuquerque, NM17 October 2022
Albuquerque, NM
"Taking the witness stand: attestation and authentication for web archive evidence"
Invited
Santa Fe, NM25 August 2022
Santa Fe, NM
"Find and Use Historical Web Information with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine" Invited
Santa Fe, NM8 July 2022
Santa Fe, NM
"The Evolving Treatment of Wayback Machine Evidence by U.S. Federal Courts"
Reviewed
Santa Fe, NM24 May 2022
Santa Fe, NM
"Making the Most of All Our Best Ideas: Agile Portfolio Management in a Research Library"
Reviewed
Los Alamos, NM26 April 2022
Los Alamos, NM
"Lots (though Fewer) of (and More Hosted) Copies Keep Stuff Safe" 
Amsterdam, Netherlands20 September 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Calibrating and Catalyzing: Technology and Service Strategy Considerations for the LANL Research Library"
Invited
8 July 2019
Los Alamos National Laboratory Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy and Services Job Talk
Los Alamos, NM
"Collaborative, Self-Governed, Secure Digital Preservation with LOCKSS"
Invited
Stanford, CA12 March 2019
Stanford, CA
"Continuing to Keep Stuff Safe with Lots of Copies, Communities, and Innovation" 
Stanford, CA29 January 2019
Stanford, CA
"SUL/EAL Web Archiving Programmatic and Technical Concerns"
Reviewed
Wellington, New Zealand13 November 2018
Wellington, New Zealand
"Recentering Community for Decentralized Digital Preservation: LOCKSS Community and Technical Strategy"
Reviewed
Henderson, NV16 October 2018
Henderson, NV
"Distributed Digital Preservation with LOCKSS" 
14 May 2018
LOCKSS Workshop on Distributed Digital Preservation
Santa Clara, CA
"Web Archiving Systems APIs (WASAPI) for Systems Interoperability and Collaborative Technical Development"
Reviewed
Washington, DC11 December 2017
Washington, DC
"Systems to Stem Government Threats to Government Information"
Reviewed
Pittsburgh, PA25 October 2017
Pittsburgh, PA
"A New Architecture for LOCKSS Interoperability and Community Engagement"
Invited
5 October 2017
"Hard Turns" Panel
Baltimore, MD
"Lots more LOCKSS for Web Archiving: Boons from the LOCKSS Software Re-Architecture"
Reviewed
London, United Kingdom15 June 2017
London, United Kingdom
"Lots of LOCKSS Keeping Stuff Safe: The Future of the LOCKSS Program"
Reviewed
Washington, DC12 December 2016
Washington, DC
"CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and the 'Long Tail': Preserving At-Risk Publishers"
Invited
Stanford, CA1 December 2016
Stanford, CA
"Interoperability and Technical Collaboration for Web and Social Media Archiving"
Invited
St. Louis, MO22 August 2016
St. Louis, MO
"Rethinking Web Archive Quality Assurance for Impact, Scalability, and Sustainability"
Reviewed
Atlanta, GA4 August 2016
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 2 August 2016
Atlanta, GA 1 August 2016
"One Site among Many: Stanford and Collaborative Technical Development for Web Archiving"
Reviewed
Prague, Czech Republic11 March 2016
Prague, Czech Republic
"Outreach to Campus Webmasters for a Better Web, and Better Web Archiving"
Reviewed
Cleveland, OH21 August 2015
Cleveland, OH
"A Snapshot of the U.S. Web Archiving Landscape through the 2013 NDSA Survey Report"
Invited
Montgomery, AL18 November 2014
Montgomery, AL
"Campaign Web Archives to Support Multi-Institutional Research"
Reviewed
Washington, DC15 August 2014
Washington, DC
"Considerations for Strategic Web Archive Collection Development"
Reviewed
Paris, France23 May 2014
Paris, France
"Boiling the Ocean, Together: Web Archive Collection Development in a Global Context" 
Stanford, CA12 May 2014
Stanford, CA
"From Seed to Harvest: Web Archiving Program Considerations for SUL"
Invited
17 April 2013
Stanford University Libraries Web Archiving Service Manager Job Talk
Stanford, CA
"A Survey of Research Prospects for more Manageable Personal Digital Photo Collections"
Reviewed
College Park, MD21 February 2013
College Park, MD
"10 Years of Web Archiving at the Library of Congress"
Washington, DC
"Assisted Web Archive Cataloging with UNC's HIVE" Reviewed
Washington, DCJuly 2011
Washington, DC
"Where We're Going: Non-Traditional Careers for LIS Graduates" 
17 May 2011
Federal Library and Information Center Committee Spring Forum
Washington, DC Writing
Authors: Laurie Gemmill Arp and Megan Forbes
Co-author: Jefferson Bailey
"Web Archiving in the United States: A 2013 Survey" 
23 October 2014
Co-authors: Jefferson Bailey, Abigail Grotke, Kristine Hanna, Cathy Hartman, Edward McCain, Christie Moffatt
Grants
Sub-grantee lead
6 September 2015
Media
Author: Melanie Ehrenkranz
Author: Katherine Seligman
Author: Jill Lepore
Author: Andy Stern
Author: Gabrielle Karampelas
Certifications
Los Alamos National Laboratory Human Subjects Training for Researchers, Managers, and Human Subjects Research Review Board Members Completion Certificate 
Communication Skills, Report Writing, and Courtroom Testimony for Forensic Analysts Certificate of Completion 
Training
Research and Development Project Management
Los Alamos National Laboratory Science Resource Office
Volunteering
Canopy
Palo Alto, CA September 2014 – October 2019
Young Alumni Liaison
Washington, DC September 2005 – May 2013
Assistant Organizer
Washington, DC February 2005 – May 2013
Casey Trees
Washington, DC March 2008 – April 2011
Organizer / Instructor / Webmaster
Claremont, CA August 1999 – December 2002
Honors
Library of Congress Professional Association Scholar's Grant 2011
Potomac Valley Chapter American Society for Information Science & Technology Student Award 2008