Presentations

"Twenty Up: Oh, The Places the SLIS Class of 1998 Have Been and What They Can Tell You!". Invited presentation (co-presented with Sean Barr, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Debbie Feisst, and Joanne Rodger) at the School of Library and Information Studies, Education South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 7 November 2018.

"Managing Metadata in Your Institutional Repository". Presentation at Netspeed 2018, the annual technology conference of The Alberta Library, Strathcona County Community Centre, Sherwood Park, Alberta, 12 October 2018.

"Twenty Up: Oh, The Places the SLIS Class of 1998 Have Been and What They Can Tell You!". Presentation (co-presented with Sean Barr, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Debbie Feisst, and Joanne Rodger) at the Alberta Library Conference 2018, the annual conference of the Library Association of Alberta and the Alberta Library Trustees Association, Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, Alberta, 27 April 2018.

"CWRC Launch Conference". Official launch and demonstration (with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Mihaela Ilovan) of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 22 September 2016.

"CWRC Beta Site Launch". Beta site launch and demonstration (with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Mihaela Ilovan) of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository at Congress 2016, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 29 May 2016.

"An Entity-Based Approach to Interoperability in the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory". Presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown [presenter], Jeffery Antoniuk, John Edward Simpson, and Mihaela Ilovan) at Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2 July 2015.

"Building Better Linked Data and Ontology Visualization Tools". Poster presentation (co-presented with John Edward Simpson, Susan Brown, Jana Smith Elford, Shawn Murphy, and Robert Warren) at Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 1 July 2015.

"Work with CWRC". Poster presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Mihaela Ilovan, and John Edward Simpson) at CSDH 2015, the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, held as part of Congress 2015, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 3 June 2015.

"The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory: An Experiment in Infrastructure". Presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Mihaela Ilovan, Megan Sellmer, and Robert Warren) at CSDH 2015, the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, held as part of Congress 2015, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 2 June 2015.

"SIMILE Exhibit: A Mapping and Timeline Application". Invited presentation delivered at a meeting of the Edmonton Map Society, Claridge House, 11027 87 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, 26 May 2015.

"The CWRC-Writer Bridge: From Coder to Writer, XML to RDF, DH to Mainstream". Poster presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, James Chartrand, Ruth Knechtel, Andrew MacDonald, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Megan Sellmer) at Digital Humanities 2014 (DH2014), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 10 July 2014.

"A Mapping and Timeline Application of Canada's Libraries and Archives". Invited presentation (co-presented with Brianna Erban, Jeffery Antoniuk, Patricia Demers, Mihaela Ilovan, and Susan Brown) on a mapping and timeline application of the libraries and archives of Canada we created (along with Jessica MacQueen, Hamman Samuel, and John Simpson) to the members of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives. Bruce Peel Special Collections, Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2 May 2014.

"Issues and Challenges in Developing a Digital Repository of Educational Resources on CAM". Poster presentation (co-presented with Trish Longair, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, and Marja Verhoef) at the fourth annual IN-CAM Research Symposium, the annual research symposium of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2 November 2007.

"Everything Old is New Again: Finding a Place for Knowledge Structures in a Satisficing World". Presentation (co-presented with D. Grant Campbell [presenter], Graham MacLean, and Catherine Baird) at the first North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2007), the biennial symposium of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, the Canada and United States chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 14 June 2007.

"Ogling Earth on the World Wide Web: Investigating the Virtual Globe Google Earth". Presentation at CAG 2007, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, held as part of Congress 2007, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2 June 2007.

"Using a Geographic Information System to Analyze Public Library Performance Measures: A Spatial Analysis of Selected Measures from the 2003 Ontario Public Library Statistics". Presentation at ASPRS 2007 Annual Conference, the annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Marriott Waterside Hotel, Tampa, Florida, 11 May 2007.

"Make jake Work for You". Presentation on jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment, the first open source OpenURL link server) at the 28th Annual AALT Conference, the annual conference of the Alberta Association of Library Technicians, King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta, 3 May 2002.

"Telling the Whole Story of Canadian Library Services and Benefits: Research Challenges in Nationwide, Multi-Sector, Library Measurement". Invited presentation (co-presented with Alvin M. Schrader) for the Association of Professional Librarians of the University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies, Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 23 January 2002.