Conferences and Presentations
“Humanities Research, Museums, and Linked Data,” Museum Analytics: New Directions, King's College London, 18 May 2023 (with Deb Verhoeven & Mike Jones)
“Using nodegoat to map the publication and ownership of early printed books and manuscripts,” An Introduction to Digital Methods for Bibliography course, Bibliographical Society and London Rare Books School, 17 May 2023.
“Fragments of Bliss: manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings and their global dispersal in the 1980s,” 58th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, 11-13 May 2023.
“Exploring a large graph of historical objects with SPARQL: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project,” RSA Virtual 2022, Renaissance Society of America, 30 November - 3 December 2022.
“Manuscript collecting by women in the United States in the 20th century: the evidence from de Ricci’s Census,” The International Trade in Pre-Modern Manuscripts 1890-1945 and the Making of the Middle Ages, 20-23 September 2022, University of London.
“What’s new about HuNI?” Digital Humanities 2022: Responding to Asian Diversity, July 25-29, University of Tokyo, Japan. https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf (pp. 627-8)
“Collecting the West: Networks & collaborations of the past & present”, AMaGA National Conference 2022, 14 – 17 June, Perth, Western Australia (with Alistair Paterson and Gaye Sculthorpe)
“Exploring a large graph of historical objects: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project,” Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022: Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations, 6th International Conference, 3– 4 February 2022 (with Laura Cleaver, Doug Emery, Mikko Koho, Lynn Ransom, Emma Thomson) (abstract)
“Building the Australian Knowledge Graph: HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure),” Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022: Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations, 6th International Conference, 3– 4 February 2022 (with Deb Verhoeven) (abstract)
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations on the Semantic Web: A Semantic Portal and Linked Open Data Service for Pre-modern Manuscript Research”, International Semantic Web Conference 2021, 26-28 October 2021 (Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Toby Burrows, Lynn Ransom and Hanno Wijsman) Short-listed for best paper at ISWC 2021
“Linking Data to Explore the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the ‘Mapping Manuscript Migrations’ Project“, European Association for Digital Humanities EADH 2021 Conference, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 21-25 September 2021 (with Mitch Fraas, Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, David Lewis, Andrew Morrison, Kevin Page, Lynn Ransom, Emma Thomson, Jouni Tuominen, Athanasios Velios, Hanno Wijsman)
“International Standard Manuscript Identifiers and the World of Linked Data,” Leeds International Medieval Congress 2021, 5 July 2021
“Modelling the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts for the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Portal,” Data for History 2021: Modelling Time, Places, Agents, 30 June 2021 (with Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen, Kevin Page, David Lewis, Doug Emery, Hanno Wijsman, Lynn Ransom, and Emma Thomson)
“Linked Open Data and Medieval Manuscripts,” The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies – A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium, 21 June 2021
“HuNI: Australian Humanities Networked Infrastructure,” Infrastructural Interventions, Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies Workshop, organised by King’s Digital Lab, King’s College Department of Digital Humanities, and Critical Infrastructures Studies Initiative, 21-22 June 2021 (with Deb Verhoeven) HuNI video presentation
“Using SPARQL to investigate the research potential of a Linked Open Data knowledge graph: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project,” DH Benelux 2021, Leiden, 2-4 June 2021 (with Laura Cleaver, Doug Emery, Mikko Koho, Lynn Ransom, and Emma Thomson)
“Tracing the histories of medieval manuscripts: A new digital environment for provenance research”, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18, Copenhagen, 14-16 April 2021
“Linked Open Data and the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts”, Renaissance Society of America Virtual 2021 Meeting, 13-15 April 2021
“Tracking the Travels of 220,000 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts”, Binghamton University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CEMERS Spring Speaker Series, 10 March 2021
“MMM – Mapping Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Migrations”, Digital Humanities in Action:
Sampo Model and Portals for Cultural Heritage, 29 October 2020 (with Mikko Koho, HELDIG and Aalto University)
“Aggregating Cultural Heritage Data to Interrogate the History of Colonial Collecting: Reconstructing Western Australian Collections in the ‘Collecting the West’ Project”, eResearch Australasia Conference 2020, 19-23 October, 2020
“Linked Open Data Vocabularies and Identifiers for Medieval Studies”, DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020
“Aggregating Cultural Heritage Data to Interrogate the History of Colonial Collecting: Reconstructing Western Australian Collections in the ‘Collecting the West’ Project”, ACHS 2020 Futures - Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, 26 - 30 August 2020
“Deploying Linked Data for Medieval Manuscript Provenance Research”, International Medieval Congress (virtual), 6 July 2020
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations: digging into data for the history and provenance of manuscripts”, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Centre for the Study of the Book, 28 February 2020
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations”, CERL Working Group on the CERL Portal, Koninglijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 3-4 February 2020
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations”, Digging into Data Conference, National Science Foundation, Alexandria VA, 29-31 January 2020
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations”, Researching the Modern History of Medieval Manuscripts: Resources and Collaboration, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 14 January 2020
“Re-Imagining Cultural Heritage with Linked Open Usable Data”, Curtin University, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, 4 December 2019
“Collecting the West”, Matariki Humanities Network: Digital Humanities, University of Western Australia, 3 December 2019
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations: an introduction and overview”, Hooking Up: 12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, University of Pennsylvania, 21-23 November 2019
“Collecting ancient manuscripts in the nineteenth century: Thomas Phillipps and Frederic Madden,” Seminars in History meeting for part-time DPhil graduate students in History at the University of Oxford, 16 November 2019
“Aggregating provenance metadata to reveal the histories of medieval manuscripts”, Dark Archives: a Conference on the Medieval Unread and Unreadable, University of Oxford, 10-12 September 2019
“Serendipity: From the Library Stacks to Digital Discoveries”, ‘State of the Art: Serendipity Research as an Emerging Field’: the 1st International Serendipity Society Conference, 5 City University, London, 6 August 2019 (with Kevin Page)
“A Layered Digital Library for Cataloguing and Research: Practical Experiences with Medieval Manuscripts, from TEI to Linked Data”, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9-12 July 2019 (with Kevin Page, Andrew Hankinson, Matthew Holford, Andrew Morrison, David Lewis and Athanasios Velios)
“Tracing the History of Medieval Manuscripts through Linked Data”, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9-12 July 2019 (poster) (with Lynn Ransom, Hanno Wijsman, and Eero Hyvönen)
“Manuscripts on the move: using nodegoat to map the history of two major manuscript collections”, Materia on the Move: Trade & Colonisation of Collections - Digital Studies in Provenance: Workshop, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 July 2019
“Linking Ontologies and Vocabularies for Medieval Studies”, Ontologies for Linked Data in the Humanities: Workshop, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8 July 2019 (with Jouni Touminen)
“‘There never was such a collector since the world began’: Tracing the Manuscript Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in the Digital World”, International Medieval Congress 2019, Leeds, 1-4 July 2019
“Transforming TEI Manuscript Descriptions into RDF Graphs”, Workshop on Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies (GraphSDE), Université de Lausanne, 3-4 June 2019 (with Athanasios Velios, Matthew Holford, David Lewis, Andrew Morrison, Kevin Page)
"Assessing the practicality of ARK identifier usage in a catalogue of medieval manuscripts", iConference 2019, 31 March - 3 April 2019, Washington, DC (with H. Burns, J. S. Downie, D. Lewis, K. Page, A. Velios)
“'I Became a Perfect Vello-maniac': Thomas Phillipps and his manuscript collection", The Mind in the Matter: New Approaches to the Psychology of Collecting, Society for the History of Collecting, Institute of Historical Research, London, 27 March 2019
"Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the 'Mapping Manuscript Migrations' Project", Oxford/Cambridge Symposium on Manuscript Description, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 15 March 2019
"The Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts: Digging into the Data for their History and Provenance", Medieval Academy of America 94th Annual Meeting 2019, University of Pennsylvania, 8 March 2019
"A Linked Open Data Service and Portal for Pre-Modern Manuscript Research", Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2019, Copenhagen, 7 March 2019 (with Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho, Lynn Ransom, Hanno Wijsman)
"Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the 'Mapping Manuscript Migrations' Project", Imaging Manuscripts & Primary Materials, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 October 2018
"Using nodegoat to track the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts", Imaging Manuscripts & Primary Materials, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, 24 October 2018
"Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the 'Mapping Manuscript Migrations' Project", Digital Humanities Congress 2018, Sheffield, 6-8 September 2018
"Mapping the Migrations of Medieval Manuscripts", International Medieval Congress 2018, Leeds, 5-7 July 2018
"Big Data and the Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project", 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 10-13 May 2018
"Tracing the Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project", Parker Library on the Web 2.0: New Opportunities and Future Directions, Cambridge, UK, 16 March 2018
"Big Data and the Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts", Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries: 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 7-9 March 2018 (with Lynn Ransom, Hanno Wijsman, and Eero Hyvönen)
"Tracing the Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts: the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project", Object Biographies: II International Artefacta Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2-3 March 2018 (with Lynn Ransom, Hanno Wijsman, and Eero Hyvönen)
"Mapping Manuscript Migrations", 24th Annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, 8-10 February 2018
"Combining and visualising evidence for manuscript provenance: a digital environment for reconstructing the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps", New Sources for Book History: International Conference, British Library, 28 November 2017
"Cultural Heritage Collections as Research Data", Digital Cultural Heritage: Future Visions, UCL East, London, 13-14 November 2017
"'Cultural Objects and their Ownership Networks: visualizing the history and provenance of manuscripts formerly in the Phillipps collection", 4th Historical Networks Research Conference, Turku, Finland, 19-20 October 2017
"The Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project", HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit, Helsinki, 18 October 2017 (with Lynn Ransom, Hanno Wijsman, and Eero Hyvönen) abstract, presentation
"Cultural Heritage & Library Collections as Data and their Role in Digital Humanities Infrastructure" eResearch Australasia 2017, Melbourne, 16-20 October 2017 (with Deb Verhoeven and Christopher McAvaney)
"Mapping Manuscript Migrations: an international project funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform", CARMEN Annual Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, September 2017
“Collecting the West,” ResearchSpace Symposium: Building Cultural Heritage Knowledge, British Museum, 27 - 28 July, 2017
"Sir Thomas Phillipps and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts", International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 3 July 2017
"Computing the History of Cultural Heritage Collections", Australian Society of Archivists, Western Australia Branch, Perth, June 2017
"Social Linking and the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", International Scientific Conference «Digital Humanities: Resources, Methods, and Research», Perm, Russia, 16-18 May 2017 (with Paul Longley Arthur and Deb Verhoeven)
"Integrating the digital infrastructure for the study of the Bible in the Middle Ages", The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Where Are We Now?, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 18 February 2017
"Migrations of manuscripts: how the vast collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps was dispersed around the world", New Norcia Library Lecture, New Norcia, 14 October 2016
"A new taste of HuNI: redeveloping the Humanities Networked Infrastructure", eResearch Australasia 2016, Melbourne, 10-14 October 2016 (with Deb Verhoeven)
“Beyond ‘Vello-mania’: a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps”, Collectors, Collections and Collecting in Britain: from Sloane to Chester Beatty, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 15 April 2016
"Reconstructing the history of the Phillipps manuscript collection", Collecta: des Pratiques Antiquaires aux Humanités Numériques, Paris, École du Louvre, 7 April 2016
"Visualizing and Modelling the History and Provenance of Manuscript Collections: New Digital Approaches", Medieval Academy of America 91st Annual Meeting, Boston, 25-27 February 2016
"Libraries and the digital humanities: partnership, collaboration and shared agendas", VALA 2016, Melbourne, 9-11 February 2016 (with Deb Verhoeven) PAPER
"Digital representations of manuscript histories: visualising the Phillipps collection", Digital Humanities Hub, University of Birmingham, 26 January 2016
"Digital representations of manuscript provenance: reconstructing the history of the Phillipps collection", Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 19 November 2015
"Visualizing and Modelling the History and Provenance of Manuscript Collections", Congresso de Humanidades Digitais em Portugal, 8-9 October 2015, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"The History and Provenance of Cultural Heritage Collections: New Approaches to Modelling, Analysis and Visualization", II Congreso Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispanicas, 5-7 October 2015, UNED, Madrid RECORDING
"Digital Modelling of Provenance Networks for Medieval Manuscripts: Chester Beatty and Thomas Phillipps", Migrant Manuscripts: the Western Manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Collection and Twentieth-Century Provenance Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 24 September 2015
"Medieval Studies and the Digital Turn", keynote presentation, CENDARI Summer School, 23 July 2015, Prague SLIDES
"The History and Provenance of Cultural Heritage Collections: New Approaches to Analysis and Visualization", Digital Humanities 2015, 1-3 July 2015, Sydney
"Enriching the HuNI Virtual Laboratory with Content from the Trove Digitized Newspapers Corpus", Digital Humanities 2015, 1-3 July 2015, Sydney (with Steve Cassidy and Alwyn Davidson)
"HuNI: Building and Linking Research Collections Online", workshop, Digital Humanities 2015, 30 June 2015, Sydney (with Alwyn Davidson)
"Serendipity and the digital humanities", Institute of Advanced Studies lecture, University of Western Australia, 24 June 2015
"The Provenance and History of the Manuscripts Formerly in the Phillipps Collection: New Approaches to Reconstruction and Analysis", 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 14-17 May 2015, Kalamazoo MI SLIDES
"Big Data, Data Modelling, and the History of Manuscript Collections", Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, 26-28 March 2015, Berlin
“Vernacular Classification: Knowledge Organization in the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)”, Evolution and Variation of Classification Systems – KnoweScape workshop, March 4-5, 2015 Amsterdam
"Serendipity and the Digital Humanities", Annual Lecture, eHumanities Group, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 11 December 2014
"Mapping the provenance of manuscripts in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps", Collecting Histories: 7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Philadelphia, 6-8 November 2014
"Semantics, social linking and humanities data in HuNI", eResearch Australasia 2014, Melbourne 27-31 October 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven and Alwyn Davidson)
"The Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies", CARMEN Annual Meeting, 12-13 September 2014, Stirling, Scotland
"Ontologies and the Humanities: Some Issues Affecting the Design of Digital Infrastructure", Digital Humanities Congress 2014, 4-6 September 2014, University of Sheffield, SLIDES Abstract
"Socially-derived linking and data sharing within a virtual laboratory for the humanities", Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne 7-11 July 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Working with data across the humanities and creative arts: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", IASSIST 40th Annual Conference: Aligning Data and Research Infrastructure, Toronto 2-6 June 2014
"Fractal geometry, randomness, history: Mandelbrot, Braudel, Taleb", Digital Humanities Australasia 2014: Expanding Horizons, University of Western Australia 19-21 March 2014
"Deploying ontologies in the humanities", Digital Humanities Australasia 2014: Expanding Horizons, University of Western Australia 19-21 March 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Integrating research in the humanities: the HuNI Virtual Laboratory", Digital Humanities Australasia 2014: Expanding Horizons, University of Western Australia 19-21 March 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven and Anne Cregan)
"Linking and Sharing Data in the Humanities and Creative Arts: Building the HuNI Virtual Laboratory", VALA 2014: 17th Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 3-6 February 2014 (with Deb Verhoeven) SLIDES
"Reconstructing the Phillipps Manuscript Collection using Linked Data Technologies", Textuality, Technology, Materiality in the Medieval & Early Modern World: Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group 19th Annual Conference, University of Western Australia, 28-30 November 2013
"Manuscripts and the Digital Age", Understanding and Using Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts: Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar, University of Western Australia, 27-28 November 2013
"HuNI: Shared Data for Humanities Researchers", Deakin University Library Occasional Seminar Series: Open Linked Data and the Academic Library, Melbourne, 4 November 2013
"Linked Data and music", Annual Conference of International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, Australia Branch, University of Western Australia, 3-4 October 2013
"HuNI - unlocking and uniting Australia's cultural datasets", WAGUL Research Event 2013 - "The How & Why of Research Data", Murdoch University, 2 October 2013
"Integrating research in the humanities: the HuNI Virtual Laboratory", First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation, Canberra, 8-11 September 2013 (with Deb Verhoeven) (digital poster)
"Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)", AeRO 5th National Forum: AeRO Collaborates!, Perth, 26 July 2013 (with Deb Verhoeven) SLIDES
"A national virtual laboratory for the humanities in Australia: the HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) project", Digital Humanities 2013, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 16-19 July 2013 (with Deb Verhoeven)
"Sharing Archaeological Research Data at UWA", 41st Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, University of Western Australia, March 2013
"Using VIVO in Research Data Management at UWA", Research Profiles Conference 2013, University of Melbourne, February 2013 (with Catherine Clark)
"Research Data Capture & Upload Service", 6th eResearch Australasia Conference, Sydney, 28 October - 1 November 2012 (with Eric Grossman and Glen Stewart) (poster)
"Designing a national 'Virtual Laboratory' for the humanities: the Australian HuNI project", Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, September 2012
"Designing a national 'Virtual Laboratory' for the humanities: the Australian HuNI project", Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, July 2012
"Europa Inventa: taking Australia's manuscript holdings to the world", Symposium "Shedding New Light on Illuminated Manuscripts: Recent Developments in Manuscript Studies", Newman College, University of Melbourne, June 2012
"Manuscript Mania: How Sir Thomas Phillipps Built the World's Greatest Collection of Medieval Manuscripts", CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture, University of Western Australia, May 2012
"Using Linked Data to build large-scale e-research environments for the humanities", Digital Humanities Australasia, Canberra, March 2012
"Supporting research in an era of data deluge: developing a new service portfolio within Information Services at the University of Western Australia", VALA 2012, Melbourne, February 2012
"A Mania for Manuscripts: How Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) amassed the world's greatest collection of medieval manuscripts", Friends of the UWA Library, November 2011
"Connecting teachers: the AustLit Database", Connections through Literature: All Saints' College Teachers' Festival, September 2011
"Organizing Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage Research: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and E-Humanities", COST Strategic Workshop "Safeguard of Cultural Heritage: a Challenge from the Past for the Europe of Tomorrow", Florence, Italy, July 2011
"Building a Criminal Justice Data Archive for Australia", IASSIST 2011, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011 [with Leanne den Hartog]
"ANDS projects at UWA", Roundtable on Australian National Data Service Projects, Edith Cowan University, May 2011
"Building international digital infrastructure: is e-research merely a slogan or a realistic goal?", ANZAMEMS 8th Biennial Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, February 2011
"Archiving Humanities Data for E- Research: Conceptual and Technical Issues", eResearch Australasia 2010, Gold Coast, Qld., November 2010
"Terra Australis Cognita: Mapping the History of Australian Speculative Fiction in AustLit", World Science Fiction Convention (AussieCon 4), Academic Track, Melbourne, September 2010
"Building a Digital Research Community in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The Australian Network for Early European Research", 3rd International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages for Teaching and Research, Columbia University, New York, June 2010
"Social Networks and Networked Data: A View from the Humanities", IASSIST 2010, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, June 2010
"Building and supporting digital research communities: the ARC Network for Early European Research", Renaissance Society of America, Venice, April 2010
“Delivering Digital Services for a National Research Network: Lessons and Implications for E-Research in the Humanities”, eResearch Australasia, Sydney, November 2009 [with Claire McIlroy]
"Collecting in a digital age", Museums Australia WA 2009 State Conference, "Changing Landscapes", Perth, October 2009. [also presented at New Norcia Library Lecture, September 2009]
"Supporting digital research communities in the humanities: the ARC Network for Early European Research", EDUCAUSE Australasia, Perth, May 2009.
"Identity parade: managing contextual personal information for archival data", Archives: Discovery and Exploration: Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference, Perth, August 2008.
"A networked humanities research community and its digital environment: how do archives and manuscripts fit in?", Looking to the Future: RAPPSIG Workshop, Australian Society of Archivists, Perth, August 2008.
"Integrating access to cultural heritage collections", Local Space, Global Connections: Visualising Cultural Data through Space and Time: Fourth ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases, Perth, April 2008.
"Building an online community for a humanities research network", Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities Workshop, HCSNet SummerFest '07, Sydney, December 2007. [with Ela Majocha]
"Building digital infrastructures for humanities research networks", Humanities Futures: 38th Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Brisbane, October 2007.
"Europa Inventa: building a gateway to Early European cultural heritage resources in Australia", Intelligent Access to Digital Heritage, Tallinn, October 2007.
"Building e-Research Infrastructures for Collaboration in Humanities Research Networks", APAC 07, Perth, October 2007. [with Elzbieta Majocha]
"e-Research and the Humanities: current directions", Thinking Society, Thinking Culture, Perth, September 2007.
"Building infrastructures for Web-based collaboration in humanities research networks", eResearch Conference, Brisbane, June 2007. [with Elzbieta Majocha]
"Confluence and PioNEER: Collaboration and Repositories for Research Networks", ANZAMEMS, 6th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, February 2007.
"Mapping our principles", Australian Society of Archivists, Port Macquarie, N.S.W., October 2006. [with Joanna Sassoon]
"Reinventing the humanities in a networked environment: the Australian Network for Early European Research", Digital Resources for the Humanities, Lancaster University, September 2005, and XVI International Conference, Association for History and Computing, Amsterdam, September 2005.
"Sound footings: building a national digital library of Australian music" Digital Resources for the Humanities 2004, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, September 2004. [with Marie-Louise Ayres and Robyn Holmes]
"Integrating access to cultural heritage collections: the Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal" Digital Resources for the Humanities 2004, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, September 2004.
"Sound footings: building a national digital library of Australian music" 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Bath, U.K., September 2004. [with Marie-Louise Ayres and Robyn Holmes]
"Integrating access to cultural heritage collections: the Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal" Computing Arts 2004, Newcastle, N.S.W., July 2004.
"How the West was one: using VDX to redevelop cooperative document delivery services in Western Australian university libraries" : paper presented at 8th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference, Canberra, October 2003. [with Dan Archibald and Carolyn McDonald]
"Opening the archives: how Encoded Archival Description is revolutionizing access to manuscript collections" : paper presented at Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, Sydney, September 2001.
"The significance of the mystical: the Clavis Melitonis and the medieval encyclopaedic tradition" : paper presented at ANZAMEMS III: Metamorphoses - Peoples, Places, Times, Perth, July 2001.
"Unlocking the archives: a new national model for resource discovery in archival and manuscript collections" : paper presented at Information Online 2001, Sydney, January 2001.
"Toward a typology of the electronic text" : paper presented at the Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, Perth, October 1997.
"Electronic texts and medieval studies" : paper presented at the Eleventh Conference of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, May 1996.
"Electronic texts in the humanities" : paper presented to the University, College and Research Libraries Section of the Australian Library and Information Association, Perth, April 1996.
"Electronic text developments" : paper presented at the Third International Interactive Multimedia Symposium, Perth, January 1996.
"Bibliographic services for the client-centred academic library": paper presented at the Eleventh National Cataloguing Conference, Sydney, October 1995.
"Integrating electronic resources into the academic library: the Scholars' Centre at The University of Western Australia" : paper presented at the CAUSE Australia Conference, Melbourne, July 1994.
"Bibliographic integration and connectivity : beyond 'cataloguing' in academic and research libraries" : paper presented at the Tenth National Cataloguing Conference, Fremantle, W.A., November 1993.
"Journals about journals and serials about serials" : paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the Australian Library and Information Association, Perth, October 1990.
"The future of serials collections in Australian university libraries" : paper presented at an Australian Serials Special Interest Group Seminar, Adelaide, August 1989.
"Methods of Biblical study and exegesis: treatises by Hugh of St Victor and his predecessors": paper presented at the 12th ANZAMRS Conference, Perth, 1985.