Presentations
“The Semantic Web as a Tool for Visualization and Collaboration: The House Divided Project and the Underground Railroad.” Visualizing the Past Workshop, a closed-session NEH conference at University of Richmond. February 20-21, 2009.
“Figura: A Tool of the Collaborative Editing of Non-nesting Content.” Poster session. Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web. 2003 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May 29th to June 2nd, 2003.
“A Database of Figures and the Figure of the Database: Some Methodological Consequences of Digital Text.” Invited presentation. New Methodologies: Chretien’s Charrette Revisited. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 17th, 2004.
“Linguistic and Figural Databases.” Invited, joint presentation. Second International Charrette Colloquium. Department of French and Italian, Princeton University. October 16th to 18th, 2003.
“Advanced Projects at Princeton’s Educational Technologies Center.” Invited presentation. Annual Teaching and Technology Workshop, the College of New Jersey, May 5th, 2001.
“Image Databases and the Image of the Database. How to Use Technology to Teach in the Humanities.” Invited presentation. Annual Conference of the Teaching Literature Group, Department of English, Rutgers University, April 6th, 2000.
“Creative Hermeneutics and Classic Mayan Art.” Invited presentation. Princeton University. Fifteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Mesoamerican Archive Research Project. Princeton University, 1999.
“Of Documents and Data: An Argument for the Importance of the Relational Model to Humanities Computing.” Digital Libraries for Humanities Scholarship and Teaching. Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Virginia, June 14th, 1999.
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“An Object-relational Approach to the Management of Digital Collections.” Digital Content, Digital Methods. Digital Resources in the Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, September 12th, 1998.
“Scholarship without Publication: The Case of the Mayan Epigraphic Database Project.” Invited presentation. Network or Perish: Publishing in the New Millennium. National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 26th, 1996.