From Guerrilla Open Archives
On Data Refuge This is the text of an essay I contributed to a pamphlet published by Memory of the World. I am deeply grateful to Memory of the World for in...
2018
2016
Digital scholarship is about creating channels
In the last few months, I’ve become involved in an environmental humanities project that has deeply impacted the way I see my work. At the same time, and eve...
Tips for Learning Tools for Librarians
Sometimes librarians ask me how they should start learning all the tools. First, I give them a long, irritating lecture about how resistant I am to the notio...
Penn Libraries Job Talk
What follows is a lightly edited version of the talk I gave as part of my interview for the job of Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship on December 4, ...
2015
Infrastructure of labor: student worker/scholars
This talk was given as part of a panel with Stewart Varner and Barbara Rockenbach at the DLF Fall Forum in Vancouver. I had already seen Stewart’s talk in Ka...
2014
Repository + repo = ?
This is another not-yet-fully-formed thought. This iteration of the thought came up again through a conversation with Bret Mulligan, a classics professor I w...
Turning Library Records into Data: A Conversation & Workshop
Update: It happened — links and slides here Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 1:00-4:45pm Library Company of Philadelphia Cassatt House, 1320 Locust Street Philad...
Adding mappable data to non-map records (for libraries and archives)
The question: I’m curious to find people who are encoding coordinates (or standardized addresses) in library records for non-map materials. I know tha...
The content / interface abstraction
At a recent conference, I took part in a workshop for Urban Historians entitled “Workshop: Digital Projects from the Ground Up.” The basic structure was for ...
On Becoming Public
Updated January 2015 This is a draft. It’s not ready. If anyone is reading this, it’s because I’ve succeeded, at least a little bit, in developing a public...