Research, Presentations and Publications:

• Report on iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects "Joined Up And Working: Tools And Methods For Digital Preservation" held in London, 29-30 September 2008.
• "Googlizing a Digital Library" An exploration of effectively and efficiently providing full-text web search capabilities to a dynamically-generated set of digitized materials, in order to leverage the power of web search to enhance access. Code4Lib Journal Issue 2, 2008-03-24. Available from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43
• "Choosing Delivery Software for a Digital Library".Library Hi Tech News, 24:9/10, 2007, pp. 19-21. Related PowerPoint with exercises for students comparing Fedora and DSpace. Presented to University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Digital Libraries classes in 2007 & 2008.
• "The Immediate Prospects for the Application of Ontologies in Digital Libraries." Knowledge Organization, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2007 (preprints available), and the PowerPoint presentation, (oriented more toward explaining ontologies), presented to an IS class in 2007.
• A (2007) short report and PowerPoint presentation on Dublin Core metadata terms and uses.
• "Metadata in Digital Libraries", an overview (2006) which won the School of Information Sciences Best Technical Project award in 2007.
• "Choosing Software for an Institutional Repository." Developed for internal use by the University of Tennessee Digital Library Center.
• A PowerPoint presentation for the Metascholar American South meeting (2002), about implementing a digital library repository for the Open Archives Initiative.

For more info about me: my resume.