I am working on the qualifying paper in anticipation of the required examinations necessary to enter candidacy so that I can begin work on my dissertation. Last semester I worked with Gary Geisler on an IMLS grant to study the issues of developing digital libraries for "information-rich" multi-media collections where there are sources of video, transcribed text and other related artifacts within collections. We hope to study the issues of developing systems that maximize the ability of researchers to identify and learn from the interconnections across media forms and build novel new interfaces that support work with these materials. We should be hearing about the grant sometime this spring. I am currently working on Gary's existing IMLS grant project, the Open Video Toolkit, where I maintain his production and test server environments and work with the interface planning and design team.

I am also developing a research project around data I have gathered over the last several months from YouTube. Gary and I recently learned that our JCDL 2007 poster proposal, Tagging Video: Conventions and Strategies of the YouTube Community, was accepted and this work will be further developed in the coming months.

For the last several years I have been an instructor and developer for the iSchool's flagship technology literacy course, Information in Cyberspace. I maintain the course server and write most of the Web applications for the site. i312 is mostly a labor of love and I am one of many who have helped it to thrive over the years. It is truly one of the best things going in our school and will hopefully continue well into the future.

As if this wasn't enough ( :, I am also work on the iSchool's tech team as an assistant to the Coordinator of IT. My job is primarily to set up and maintain servers for various iSchool research projects and computing services. I purposely took this job as a way to learn more about the systems side of building and maintaining networked applications and resources with the idea that these skills would only add to my ability to research and teach these topics in our field. So far, I'm happy to say that this is working out just as I'd hoped.

You can read more about the specific projects I work or have worked on for research, courses or work throughout the pages of this site.