What we have said
Partnering with Scholars: Exposing a City's Hidden Collections
June 2007 A presentation given to Chicago area librarians and archivists, based on a presentation given to the Digital Library Federation about the Library's Mellon-funded UNCAP project (November 2006).
EAD 2002: Finding Aid Delivery using Native XML Technologies
October 2004 A presentation given to the Digital Library Federation about the Library's implementation of EAD 2002 and the use of MODS for finding aid discovery via OAI.
Greenstone in Practice
October 2004 Presentation slides and handouts from a LITA 2004 Forum panel discussion on the use of Greenstone in a variety of digital library settings.
RSS: What it is, How it works, How to use it
September 2004 Introduction to the basics of RSS, given at one of the WhereWhat meetings organized by NSIT's Learning Technologies Group.
Creative Commons
July 2004 Presentation slides for a talk given at the American Association of Law Libraries on the copyright issues facing Libraries and how the Creatve Commons offers some solutions.
Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
June 2004 Paper written for the ARL Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee endorsing the use of digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials.
JCDL Chopin
June 2004 Poster for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries describing method for providing Melodic Access and Title Uniformity in the Chopin Early Editions Music Digital Library
Nand: A New Tool for an Old Problem
November, 2003 Presentation notes for a talk given at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum about a web-based tool, developed by the DLDC, for searching and browsing collections of data. The talk described the rationale for building the tool, the underlying technology, sample interfaces which use it, and its strategic benefits.
Greenstone
November, 2003 Presentation notes and handouts for a talk given at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum about the implementation of Greenstone for a collection of Early Chopin scores.
Building Chopin Early Editions
October, 2003 Poster and invited talk from the Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003) about implementing a music digital library of digitzed classical piano scores.