Occasionally I’ve given presentations about the application of information technology in libraries. A lot of this stuff looks kind of dated now, but I guess it is descriptive of my particular career path.

Data First Interventions
Web Archives Conference
Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 12, 2015)
[text] [slides]

White Dudes Giving Speeches
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
Roanoke, Virginia (October 8, 2015)
[text] [slides]

@congressedits - Wikipedia + Twitter + Congress = ?
DC Hack and Tell
Washington, DC (July 21, 2014)
[slides]

The Web as a Preservation Medium
National Digital Forum
Wellington, New Zealand (November 28, 2013)
[text] [slides] [video]

Linking Things on the Web - A Pragmatic Examination of Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums
MITH Digital Dialogues
College Park, MD (February 20, 2013)
[slides] [pdf]

Wikistream
Wikimania 2012
Washington, DC (July 11, 2012)
[text] [slides] [pdf]

Synchronizing Linked Data
Digital Public Library of America: Global Interoperability Summit
Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 16, 2011)
[slides]

Linkypedia
WikiXDC (tenth birthday of Wikipedia)
National Archives, Washington, DC (January 22, 2011)
[slides]

Confessions of a Graph Addict
Linked Data: Making Library Data Converse with the World
American Libraries Association
Washington, DC (June 24, 2010)
[slides] [pdf]

Renewing Libraries With Linked Data
Semantic Web in Bibliotheken
Cologne, Germany (November 25, 2009)
[pdf] [wmv]

Peace, Love, Freedom and the Web
New York Library Association
Niagara, New York (October, 17, 2009)
[slides] [pdf]

The Library of Congress and Linked Data
Semantic Web Meetup
New York, New York (May 8, 2009)
[slides] [pdf]

Open Up Your Repositories: With a SWORD!
code4lib 2009
Providence, Rhode Island (February 24, 2009)
[slides] [pdf]

Linked Data
code4lib 2009
Providence, Rhode Island (February 23, 2009)
[slides] [pdf]

LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
Berlin, Germany (September 22, 2008)
[slides] [pdf] [paper]

New Directions in Knowledge Organization Systems
CENDI/NKOS Joint Meeting, World Bank
Washington DC (September 11, 2008)
[slides]

Atom Publishing Protocol Primer
code4lib 2007
Athens, Georgia (March 2007)
[ slides ] [video]

import pyLucene
Chicago Python Users Group
Chicago, Illinois (June 2005)
[slides]

Learning Perl
Queens Borough Public Library
New York City (October 2004)
[slides] [reviews]

Net::OAI::Harvester
Library and Information Technology Association
St Louis (October 2004)
[slides]

Object Orientated Perl and Testing
Notre Dame University
South Bend, Indiana (July 2003)
[slides]

Introduction to SOAP
Chicago Perl Mongers
Chicago, Illinois (April 2003)
[slides]

MARC Processing With Perl
ALA Pre-conference on Open Source Technologies
Atlanta, Georgia (June 2002)
[slides]

A Perl Toolkit for Libraries
Viriginia Library Association
Richmond, Virginia (June 1999).