Jessie specializes in metadata governance, controlled vocabularies, and asset stewardship across the information architecture. Their interest lies in ethical and folkloric taxonomy approaches for enterprise collections.
They were a 2026 Digital Storytelling Fellow for the Digital Library Federation's annual Forum. McCarty's writing and workflows in controlled vocabularies and folksonomies has been featured at the IIIF Open Meeting, The Digital Repository of Ireland, The MARAC Conference, and the International Council on Archives.
They are a member of several working groups, such as: Nua Index's Folk Metadata working group, the MARAC Peer Working Group and the International Counsil on Archives' Business Metadata and the Sex-Affective and Gender Diversity Working Group.