Photo © 2010, Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 Unported.
Hi, my name is Nathan, and I’m a writer and print maker. Some days I write code, and some days I write words. Some days I write words about writing code. Occasionally I write about free software. I’m sure it’s lovely to see you today.
I previously worked at Creative Commons, serving as Chief Technology Officer from 2007-2011. While there I was responsible for CC Publisher, the web services for integrating licensing, and architecting and building the license infrastructure. In 2008, I co-authored the CC Rights Expression Language specification (CC REL), which provides a technical model for describing licenses. I also developed the technical and metadata architecture for Creative Commons’ public domain tools, and a digital copyright registry, CC Network, based on linked data. I was the primary architect of Creative Commons’ search and discovery work, developing prototype search tools for open educational resources based on linked data and aggregation.
"More to Love" (Yergler, 2011)
I was introduced to monotype print making by Katie Gilmartin. Recently I’ve been exploring how complex stencils can be used to combine very graphical qualities with the one-off nature of monotype. A selection of my work is available here.