Presentations

This is an archive of presentations, some clearly redundant, and many representing historical views of the metadata world. Some are not included here because the time and tide of technology has left them unreadable. Slides are in .pdf unless noted otherwise, write-ups in html. I affirm them all as covered by a CC-BY license (that I will not enforce).

2016

Pity the User: Cards vs Database Search
Pity the User: Cards vs Database Search (portion)(.mov)
Catalogs and Context (A compilation of six blog posts based on a talk I gave at ELAG2016, about the loss of context in library catalogs.)

2015

Mistakes Have Been Made (Youtube) SWIB 2015

2014

How Semantic Web Differs from Traditional Data Processing (with Tom Baker) (DCMI, Austin)
Introduction to the Semantic Web and Linked Data (*)
Linked Data: What it Is, Why it Matters (Madrid)
Think Different: A New Approach to Library Catalogs

2013

Libraries and Linked Data
Making a Statement (webinar Part 1, Singapore)
Identifiers (webinar Part 2, Singapore
Introduction to the Semantic Web and Linked Data (Webinar Part 3, Singapore)
Ontologies (webinar Part 4, Singapore)
Vocabularies (webinar Part 5, Singapore)

2012

Think Different: A New Approach to Library Catalogs

Slide handouts from Kuching Linked Data Seminar (DCMI, 2012)

Things and Strings (Part I of LLD Webinar)
Tools for Linked Library Data
After MARC: Options(ALA)
Knowledge Organization (ALA)
From Here to There NISO/DCMI webinar
Nuovi modelli per metadata: Linked Data and the Semantic Web (in Italian)

2011

On the Web, Of the Web; LITA 2011 Keynote
From Here to There; NISO/DCMI Webinar
Authorities as Things
Things and Strings (and Other Stuff, Too)
Will RDA Kill MARC?
New Models for Metadata: Linked Data and the Semantic Web
The Way to Linked Library Data. Part I
The Way to Linked Library Data. Part II
Bibliographic Data; A New Context (Oslo)
RDA and the Road to the Semantic Web (Amigos)

2010

Yes We Can! Some Observations on Library Linked Data (Koln)
New Models of Metadata (ALA)
Semantic Web and Linked Data (.mov)
Google Book Search: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
Linked Data
Semantic Web and Libraries (AALL)
Linked Data and Libraries (ALA)
New Directions in Metadata (New York)
Catalogs in the 21st Century (Ann Arbor)
Directions in Metadata (in Italian) (.mov)
Cow Path Model (CPM) of the Clever or Wily Generalized Information Routing Language (CoW-GIRL) (.mov)
Metadata is a Plural Noun, pt. 2 (Library data) (.mov)
Metadata is a Plural Noun, pt. 1 (.mov)
Directions in Metadata (ALA)
The Book
Open Library - Mix and Match Metadata (Boston)

2009

Ebooks, Rights, and Google
Building a Rights Framework for a Digital Preservation Repository (with Sharon Farb)
The Google AAP Settlement
Metadata: Data With a Purpose
Digital Rights Management

2008

There's no catalog ... like no catalog (ER&L)
RDA in RDF: Can Rcsesource Description Become Rigorous Data? (.mp4) (Code4lib 2008)
RDA in RDF: slides with text
Patron Privacy (California Library Association)
Formati dei record e cataloghi di nuova generazione Florence (in Italian)

2004

Privacy and Libraries (InfoPeople)

2003

Privacy and User Information (ALA/OITP Ebook Task Force preconference)

2000

Is MARC Dead? (ALA, 2000)

1998

Privacy and Free Speech (Assocation of Law Libraries)

1996

Copyright in the digital age San Francisco Public Library

1994

Universal Access; Some Global Issues (San Francisco, World Affairs Council)
Cyber-Activist's Top Ten List (DEFCON ][, August 1994, Las Vegas)