Repository containing all talks I have given, publications I've been involved with, places I've been interviewed, with links to related materials. Does not include some private institutional trainings. From 2018 onward, some materials are hosted here in this repo.

2024

• 2024-12-06 Association of Moving Image Archivists: "Degralescence" 10 Years Later (Roundtable) | conference site
• 2024-10-29 New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Video Preservation I: The very most important digital video properties (updated) | slides
• 2024-09-19 - 2024-10-10 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IS 593 4-Week AV Digitization Workshop | syllabus
• 2024-09-13 No Time To Wait! 8: The Future of Memory (Roundtable) | conference video
• 2024-01-30 National Digital Stewardship Alliance Digipres Redux!, Excellence Awards, "Doing, Learning, Teaching" or "Charts Charts Charts" | video | slides

2023

• 2023-10-24 New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Video Preservation I: The very most important digital video properties (updated) | slides

2022

• 2022-11-01 New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Video Preservation I: The very most important digital video properties | slides
• 2022-10-17 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Audiovisual Materials in Libraries and Archives | (guest lecture)

2021

• 2021-12-08 CommCon Virtual: Pulling text out of a (mediasoup) hat and other magic tricks for a captivating live transcription performance | video
• 2021-11-02 Digital Library Federation Forum: Building a Collaborative Curation Framework: Working Towards Sustainable Digital Stewardship | program| video | (Note: I authored report)

2020

• 2020-11-19 Association of Moving Image Archivists: Return of the DVRescuer | video
• 2020-11-20 Association of Moving Image Archivists: Audio Video Known Issues Data (AVKID) Initiative | video
• 2020-05-14 Recurse Center Never Graduate Week: Exploring the Vasulka PDF Archive | slides | project

2019

• 2019-12-05 No Time To Wait: Supporting Archival Practitioners (Roundtable participant) | video
• 2019-12-05 No Time To Wait: Adventures in reading FFmpeg logs | slides (press 'p' for presenter's notes)
• 2019-12-04 No Time To Wait: Workshop Manager | website
• 2019-10-22-24 Archivematica Camp, Geneva/CERN: Training modules | webpage
• 2019-09-18 iPres: Archivematica as a Case Study for Sustained Digital Preservation | paper
• 2019-09-18 iPres: Sustainability through Community: ffmprovisr and the Case for Collaborative Knowledge Transfer | paper
• 2019-08-06 Society of American Archivists: BloggERS presents: Script It! Developing Technical Literacy in the Archives: Git-keeping: The Many Technical Skills Beyond 'Learning to Code' | mp4 | slides, as pdf | slides, as pptx (with speakernotes)
• 2019-07-19 "The Word Real Is No Longer Real": Deepfakes, Gender, and the Challenges of AI-Altered Video" | DOI
• 2019-04-27 Bastard Film Encounter: Rhonda's Greatest Hits | blog post
• 2019-02-21 Code4lib: The Real World of Technology | video | transcript++
• 2019-02-19 Code4lib: Forensic Files, Episode 1: "Fishing for the Truth" | slides | website
• 2019-02-19 Code4lib: Forensic Files, Episode 2: "A Purr-fect Match" | slides | website

2018

• 2018 Museum of the Lost Web: Freezone | webpage
• 2018-12-11 Society of American Archivists: bloggERS Making Tech Skills a Strategic Priority: "Trained in Classification, Without Classification" | blog post
• 2018-11-30 CNA & Technoport Luxembourg "Hack Your Heritage": Working in open source... in cultural heritage | video | slides
• 2018-11-27 Centre national de l'audiovisuel Luxembourg and MediaArea: Open Source Quality Checking Workshop | video | slides | website
• 2018-11-14 Archivematica Camp, Houston/University of Houston: Training modules | webpage
• 2018-11-12 Archivist's Alley: Ashley Blewer: Digital Archiving, Open Source Work & Systems of Strength| webpage
• 2018-10-26 No Time To Wait! 3: The Developer-Archivist: a Definition of the Profession | video | website
• 2018-10-17 DLF Forum: Open Options for Audiovisual Preservation | OSF | slides | notes
• 2018-10-16 DLF Forum: Approaches to A/V | notes
• 2018-09-05 NDSA Content Group Meeting: AV Preservation | video | slides
• 2018-06-04 WGBH AAPB Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship: Tech Workshop | slides
• 2018-05-07 Recurse Center: Internet Girlfriend Club! | slides | website
• 2018-04-17 IS&T ARCH2018: "Digital Audiovisual File Formats: Identification, Validation, Specification Verification" Workshop | slides
• 2018-03-23 National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web: Fidelity, Integrity, & Compromise | slides (Keynote) | transcript | video (1:32:00)
• 2018-02-15 Code4lib: Beyond Open Data | repo

2017

• 2017-11-10 No Time To Wait! 2: Open Source: A Preservation Strategy Panel | video
• 2017-11-09 No Time To Wait! 2: spec writers: we are just like you!* *sorta | slides/transcript/video
• 2017-06-21 Open Source Bridge: How Open Source Audiovisual Tools Help Archivists (And You Too!) | slides/notes

2016

• 2016-12 The Signal: Wisdom is Learned, an interview with applications developer Ashley Blewer | blog
• 2016-10-17 USC SLIS 777 Guest Lecture: What is a minimum digital repository? | video/transcript
• 2016-10-14 iPRES: Quality Standards for Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage | website
• 2016-10-03 iPRES: Status of CELLAR: Update from an IETF Working Group for Matroska and FFV1 | slides | whitepaper
• 2016-07-23 Northeast Historic Film: Buying Lobster Rolls With Linden Dollars: Virtual Tourism and Digital Visions of New England in Second Life and Beyond | slides | video
• 2016-07-23 Tate: Conservation of Digital Video Workshop | website, archived
• 2016-07-18 No Time To Wait! | website
• 2016-04-03 NYU MIAP: XSLT Workshop | slides
• 2016-03-28 NYPL: Women's History in Digital Collections | blog
• 2016-03-10 Code4lib: Free your workflows (and the rest will follow): community-driven AV solutions through open source workflow development | slides | video
• 2016-02 The Signal: Demystifying Digital Preservation for the Audiovisual Archiving Community | blog
• 2016-01-19 Technology is People (NYPL) | webpage
• 2016: LITA: The Librarian's introduction to programming languages (Ruby chapter) | worldcat

2015 and earlier

• 2015-11-20 AMIA: Validate Your Digital Assets: PREFORMA, MediaConch and File Compliance | slides
• 2015-11-20 AMIA: Seeding and Leeching: Collaborative Preservation using BitTorrent | slides
• 2015-09-27 IASA: MediaConch | slides
• 2015-11-20 AMIA (kinda): Advice for New Grads | slides | blog
• 2015-09 The Signal: Improving Technical Options for Audiovisual Collections Through the PREFORMA Project | blog
• 2015-05-17 !!Con: Don't know about you, but I'm feeling like SHA-2! | slides | video
• 2015-05-13 Bustle: How I Found My Way Back To Tech After A Decade | link
• 2015-04-24 Personal Digital Archiving: Don't know about you, but I'm feeling like SHA-2! | slides | video
• 2015-04-24 Personal Digital Archiving: Does BitTorrent + Private Trackers = The New Film Archive? | slides | video
• 2015-02-11 Code4lib: PreForma Project | slides | video
• Flatiron School Presents (Meetup): Form Helpers | slides
• Orphans Midwest: Un-Caging the Orphan | slides
• Gender, Bodies, Tech: The Palace: Gender Fluidity in Flatland | slides
• USC Wordpress Website Workshop | slides
• USC/WGST Symposium: Moving Image Research Collections, or "We have a film archive?" | slides
• USC/WGST Symposium: Questions of Opulence: Perception of Women's Bodies Within Roaring Twenties Newsreels | slides
• USC Moving Image Research Collections: Film Library Inspection Party (FLIP) | video
• Growing Up Great | video