XQuery for Archivists: Understanding EAD Finding Aids as Data in Practical Technology for Archives, No. 3 (2014) XML has long been an important tool for archivists. The addition of XQuery provides a simple and easy-to-learn tool to extract, transform, and manipulate the... 2014 November
Nicholson Baker Would Like Us to Be Angry Unpublished paper I wrote in graduate school for a preservation class. It argues that Nicholson Baker's criticism of microfilming newspapers is muddled in misunderstanding and... 2013 March
Is EAD A Red Herring?: The Path to Innovative Online Archival Information Systems Unpublished paper I wrote in graduate school on online finding aids. I'm really proud of half of it and cringe at the rest. Like I... 2012 December
The Most Interesting Place: the Eastern Mediterranean and American Cultural Knowledge This study addresses how nineteenth-century Americans perceived the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean. The project rests upon a detailed examination of American primary school geography... 2012 June
