# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/micah-altman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:42.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/micah-altman"
name: "Micah Altman"
slug: "micah-altman"
description: "Micah Altman is an American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics. Since 2012, he has worked as the head research scientist in the MIT Libraries, first as director of the Program on Information Science (2012-2018) and subsequently as director of research for the libraries' Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. Altman previously worked at Harvard University. He is known for his work on redistricting, scholarly communication, privacy and open science. Altman is a co-founder of Public Mapping Project, which develops DistrictBuilder, an open-source software."
tagline: "American Social and Information scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MicahAltman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1967-08-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.79
  momentum:             0.5063291139240507
  historical:           4.802988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/drmaltman"
    handle:    "drmaltman"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahaltman/"
    handle:    "micahaltman"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://micahaltman.com"
sources:
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    title: "ميكاه ألتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Altman"
    title: "Micah Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Altman"
    title: "Micah Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Altman"
    title: "Micah Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Altman"
    title: "Micah Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6827854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump