Presentations

Last updated in 2025

2024 - IMPRS Digital Humanities Workshop: GIS in history. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. online.
2023 - Collections as Data: Transcribing Medical Records. UCSF Digital Health Humanities Symposium. online.
2023 - On data interpretation. Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions. Vancouver.
2023 - Blockchain in the Humanities. DH2023. online.
2023 - Which times matter to write history? Time as a causal factor. GRAPHNR2023. online. slides
2022 - Building apps for digital humanities projects with vue.js. European Library Automation Group. Riga, Latvia.
2022 - Building a Central Knowledge Graph for Multiple Humanities Research Projects. European Library Automation Group. Riga, Latvia. slides
2022 - Introduction to the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities. code4lib conference. Buffalo, USA. slides
2022 - Uncovering Health History: Transcribing, Publishing, and Protecting Archival Medical Records as Data: A Case Study Involving Records from the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society. The Network of the National Library of Medicine. online. slides
2022 - Using flowmaps to visualize epistemic networks. Graphs and Networks in the Humanities. Amsterdam, Netherlands. slides
2022 - Building a Central Knowledge Graph for Multiple Humanities Research Projects. Graphs and Networks in the Humanities. Amsterdam, Netherlands. slides
2022 - Tracing Innovation with Representation Learning in the Sphaera Corpus. Graphs and Networks in the Humanities. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2021 - Development process for digital humanities projects. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Berlin, Germany.
2021 - Developing a Digital Research Infrastructure for the Digital Humanities. ENCODE conference. Leuven, Belgium. slides
2021 - Introduction to Digital Humanities. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Berlin, Germany.
2021 - Introduction to Blockchain for Digital Humanists. CORDH. online. slides
2021 - Mining the past for the future: Collections as data as an organizational model in a data-driven world. ACRL. Seattle, USA. slides
2021 - Transcribing collections using Transkribus machine learning. Transkribus workshop. Denver, USA. slides
2020 - Integrating Collections as Data into Digital Repositories. Open Repositories. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2020 - Developing an API to access digital repository digital collections. Open Repositories. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2020 - Library Carpentry Workshop. Library Carpentry at Purdue University. online.
2020 - Vertical Collaboration in a Digital Collections Ecosystem. Lighting the Way Forum. Stanford, USA. slides
2020 - 2020 Recap. Collections as Data Summative Forum. Las Vegas, USA. slides
2019 - Digitization projects with Transkribus. code4lib Colorado. Denver, USA.
2019 - Digital collections ecosystem project briefing. DU IT Forum. Denver, USA.
2019 - Collections as Data at the University of Denver. LYRASIS summit. Chicago, USA.
2019 - Handwritten Text Recognition on Historical Medical Records from the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society. DH and the Visual World. Boulder, USA. slides
2019 - Handwritten Text Recognition Technology and Digitization. ASIST Techbyte. Denver, USA. slides
2019 - In a third space: Building a horizontally connected digital collections ecosystem. Open Repositories. Hamburg, Germany. slides
2019 - Managing Digital Institutional Content: Repository Projects. CNI. Washington DC, USA.
2019 - Part to Whole Kickoff: Redefining Roles and Services to Support Collections as Data. CNI. Washington DC, USA. slides
2019 - Handwritten Text Recognition and the Beck Archives. DU AI Summit. Denver, USA.
2019 - Alternative Digital Repositories. LDCX. Stanford, USA.
2019 - Show us yer strength! The ways we flex ElasticSearch. code4lib conference. San Jose, USA. slides
2018 - Admin track: Introducing Islandora. Islandora Camp Halifax. Halifax, Canada.
2018 - Supporting Web Annotations in Islandora. Islandora Camp Halifax. Halifax, Canada.
2018 - Supporting Digital Scholarship in Islandora CLAW: Linked Data Modeling for Humanities Data. Open Repositories. Bozeman, USA. slides
2018 - Working with the W3C Web Annotation Standards and Islandora. Open Repositories. Bozeman, USA. slides
2018 - Investing in open-source – community-level strategies for developing sustainable software. Open Repositories. Bozeman, USA. slides
2018 - Early notes from a repository early adopter. Open Repositories. Bozeman, USA. slides
2018 - Recursive and Reflective Building of Digital Collections. TRY Conference. Toronto, Canada. slides
2018 - Supporting Digital Scholarship in Islandora CLAW: Linked Data in the Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform. Islandora CLAW Event. online.
2018 - Introduction to static site generators. code4lib conference. Washington DC, USA. slides
2018 - Hands-on Islandora. iSkills Workshop. Toronto, Canada.
2017 - Introduction to Python for Scientific Computing. University of Toronto Scarborough Physics Students Union. Toronto, Canada.
2017 - Digital Scholarship Tools and Techniques. Tamil Internet Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2017 - Let’s talk about digital repositories!. code4lib Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
2017 - Supporting Oral Histories in Islandora. Islandora Conference. Hamilton, Canada.
2017 - Introduction to the Web Annotation Utility Module. Islandora Conference. Hamilton, Canada.
2017 - Workshop - Building static site generators for your personal projects. code4lib North. Ottawa, Canada.
2017 - Web Annotation Framework in Islandora. code4lib conference. Los Angeles, USA. slides
2017 - Virtual Uncommons - Connecting Digital Liaisons: Technical skill sets in digital library settings (Twitter Panel). ASIS&T SIG DL. online.
2017 - Forming a Digital Scholarship Unit. TechKnowFile. Toronto, Canada.
2017 - Version Control with Git. UTSC Graduate Professional Skills. Toronto, Canada.
2016 - CLDI IT Workshop. CLDI Summit 2016. Montreal, Canada.
2016 - Managing development of MediaCAT, an open-source web crawler. UTSC Library Conference Day. Toronto, Canada.
2016 - Repository as Research Method: a Digital Collections Virtuous Circle. Open Repositories. Indianapolis, USA. slides
2016 - Zen and the art of repository maintenance. Open Repositories. Indianapolis, USA. slides
2016 - Islandora in the Classroom: Digital History and Repositories. Open Repositories. Indianapolis, USA.
2016 - Collaborating with your Computer Science Department. code4lib North. Hamilton, USA.
2016 - #UTSCFinanceHacks: Planning and executing a successful student hackathon in 6 weeks. TRY Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2016 - Getting your hands dirty with web scraping. code4lib conference. Philadelphia, USA.
2016 - Curate my web crawl with MediaCAT. code4lib conference. Philadelphia, USA. slides
2016 - Image and Meme Analysis with Python: I know words and images. Web Archives Unleashed. Toronto, Canada.
2016 - Using Islandora to build digital collections. OLA Superconference. Toronto, Canada.
2015 - Getting Started with Islandora Solr Views. Collections UofT Meetup. Toronto, Canada.
2015 - Web Mapping with Python and Leaflet. Digital Pedagogy Institute. Toronto, Canada.
2015 - The Learning in Neural Circuits Research Environment: Managing Living Specimens and Laboratory Data in Islandora. Open Repositories. Dublin, Ireland.
2015 - Developing Open Oral Histories in Islandora. Open Repositories. Dublin, Ireland.
2015 - Digital Humanities and Your Dissertation Workshop. University of Toronto Scarborough Graduate Studies. Toronto, Canada.
2015 - Digital Preservation and Experiential Learning in History HISD18. CTL Teaching Showcase. Toronto, Canada. slides
2015 - Introduction to Data Visualization with Fusion Tables. UTSC Undergraduate Studies Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2015 - Project Collaboration in Digital Scholarship. Diasporic Foodways. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Digital Toolkit: Storytelling and Filmmaking for Video II. UTSC Undergraduate Studies Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - To Code or Not to Code?. Special Libraries Association Article Club. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Visualizing Geolocated Data with MapsEngine and Leaflet. Digital Pedagogy Institute. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Collaboration & Tools for Digital Food Mapping. City Food Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Introduction to Islandora & the Doris McCarthy fonds. Berkshire Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Information Use & Reuse: Open Source App Development in Libraries. TRY Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Intranets and Interaction Design. University of Toronto iSchool Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2014 - Information Use & Reuse: Open Source App Development in Libraries. OLA Superconference. Toronto, Canada.
2013 - Closing the Gender Gap: A working analysis of Harvard Business School’s recent policy shift. University of Toronto iSchool Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2013 - Historical Scarborough – Then and Now. The Scarborough Historical Mapping Project, University of Toronto iSchool. Toronto, Canada. slides
2012 - Marketing in Libraries. University of Toronto iSchool Forum. Toronto, Canada.
2012 - Making Maps with MapsEngine and Leaflet. TRY Conference. Toronto, Canada. slides