# Keith Curtis
**Wikidata**: [Q47113391](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47113391)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/keith-curtis

## Summary
Keith Curtis is an American computer scientist born in 1961 whose professional work centers on informatics, computing, software and computer systems. Listed in major library authority files under VIAF ID 1882566 and LC n2005076701, he is identified in academic and bibliographic records as a male technologist active in the English-speaking scholarly community.

## Biography
- Born: 27 March 1961 (most precise value sourced 2018-05-25 via VIAF 1882566)
- Nationality: United States (inferred from English as language and LC/North-American-centric authority files)
- Education: not stated in source material
- Known for: contributions to informatics, software and computer-systems research
- Employer(s): not stated in source material
- Field(s): informatics, computing, software, computer systems

## Contributions
No books, articles, patents, software releases, companies founded, or standards authored are named in the supplied dataset. The only verifiable contributions are the existence of authority-file records (ISNI, VIAF, GND, Library of Congress, National Library of Israel, Czech NL, Yale LUX, Open Library, WorldCat Entities) that librarians have created to track publications or activities by a person named Keith Curtis. Without titles, dates, or venues, the specific intellectual outputs cannot be described.

## FAQs
### Q: What is Keith Curtis best known for?
A: The provided sources only identify him as a computer scientist active in informatics and software; no individual discoveries or products are listed.

### Q: Where can I find Keith Curtis’s publications?
A: Authority files (VIAF 1882566, LC n2005076701, OpenLibrary OL723489A) exist, but no publication list is supplied; check WorldCat or library catalogs for works under those identifiers.

### Q: Is Keith Curtis still active?
A: Source material gives a 1961 birth date but no death date; activity beyond that cannot be confirmed from the dataset.

## Why They Matter
Because no publications, organizational roles, or measurable impacts are supplied, it is impossible to assess broader significance. The presence of extensive library authority control simply shows that at least one library collection or bibliographic utility judged works by a Keith Curtis worth tracking; without knowing the works themselves, the influence on computing or informatics cannot be characterized.

## Notable For
- Persistent identity record across nine major library and consortial systems (ISNI, VIAF, GND, LC, NLI, Czech NL, Yale LUX, Open Library, WorldCat Entities)
- Authority file birth date refined to day-level precision (27 Mar 1961) with corroborating reference snapshots
- Field-of-work taxonomy spans four inter-related areas: informatics, computing, software, and computer systems

## Body
### Identity consolidation
Keith Curtis (given: Keith; family: Curtis; sex: male; instance_of: human) appears in library authority files under the numeric IDs ISNI 0000 0000 4773 1645, VIAF 1882566, GND 13387785X, LC n2005076701, NLI J9U 987007316183005171, Czech NL mub2016917850, Yale LUX person/57d848d2-54e3-403e-9e9d-01296c73b583, Open Library OL723489A, and WorldCat Entities E39PBJgXfXCyJXD7jGtkMGTmBP. All entries converge on a birth year of 1961; the most precise qualifier gives 27 March 1961.

### Professional classification
Occupation: computer scientist. Field of work: informatics, computing, software, computer systems. Language: English. No thesis, institutional affiliation, employer, or grant record is supplied in the dataset.

### Gaps in the record
The source material lacks:
- educational history
- employment history
- publication titles
- patent numbers
- conference presentations
- open-source repositories
- awards or honors
- dates of activity after 1961

Consequently, the body of accomplishments, influence on other researchers, commercial impact, and historical significance cannot be documented from the given facts alone.

## References

1. Czech National Authority Database
2. OCLC, Inc.
3. [Source](https://viaf.org/viaf/data/viaf-20230206-links.txt.gz)
4. Virtual International Authority File
5. Integrated Authority File
6. Open Library
7. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File