A selection of projects I’ve worked on in the recent past, in no particular order.
Coding and Web Design
(Most of my work in this area has been done for clients on behalf of my employer, and as such aren’t public and are covered by non-disclosure agreements. You’ll just have to imagine how wonderful they are.)
- Developed a WordPress plug-in (using PHP) for hierarchical navigation for my employer’s website.
- As described on my blog in “Digital library chugging along on rails” and mentioned in my Library Journal article “Shoestring Digital Library”, as a class project I created (with two others) a prototype digital library of New York City plays developed in Ruby on Rails.
- A customization of the LibX toolbar for the University of Pittsburgh libraries (see this blog post).
- Developed a SCORM-compliant eLearning training program for handheld devices, using HTML, Flash, and JavaScript and ActionScript. Installed and configured a lightweight learning management system to manage and host this content.
- A portal site using Microsoft Sharepoint to distribute online information and printable documents to customers of a business model licensor.
- Also using Sharepoint, created a custom reporting application that compiles XML reports generated by an InfoPath form and renders them to the web using XSLT.
- Developed an automated publishing process using XSLT, based on the DocBook XML schema and stylesheets, to render content in print, HTML, online help, and convert to OpenOffice and other documentation formats.
Writing
(For publications in peer-reviewed and trade journals, see my résumé.)
- Contributions to the Evergreen documentation wiki. Evergreen is an open-source integrated library system being developed for the Georgia Public Library Service.
- An academic paper on folksonomy and controlled vocabulary used in conjunction for the same collections, especially focusing on LibraryThing (read in the blog post or as a pdf).
- Another academic paper, entitled “Beyond Literacy: Document as Object and the Internet of Things”. A theoretical discursion on Walter Ong, Suzanne Briet, and Bruce Sterling (oh, and what a tea party that would make!), treating the eras of culture in information and technology and their convergence (introductory blog post or full paper in pdf).
- A “management portfolio”: a strategic plan and set of related documents for a fictional academic library (pdf). Also, a grant proposal for a fictional public library (pdf).