"Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context" at International Authority Control Conference, Florence, Italy. 2003.

"Archival Description: People, Records, and Functions" at CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model SIG, Washington, D.C. 2003.

"Applying Technology to Humanities Resources and Communication" at Coalition for Networked Information meeting, Portland. 2003.

"Original Digital Humanities Research Publications: Challenges in Library Collecting" in speakers' series Digital Dialogues, University of California, San Diego. 2003.

EAD Research: Diffusion, Implementation, and Living with Encoded Archival Description (EAD). SAA session chair, Los Angeles. 2003.

"Conversion of EAD" at Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Gettysburg. 2003.

"Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context" [actual title and content varies]

-        RLG sponsored Metadata Matters SAA pre-conference, Birmingham, Alabama. 2002.

-        Standards und Methoden der Volltext-Digitalisierung, Universität Trier, Germany. 2002.

-        Computing Arts Conference, Sydney, Australia. 2001.

-        RLIN Users Roundtable, Washington D.C. 2001.

“Data Diversity and Integration in Two Socio-Cultural Historical Research Projects” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computing the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Tübingen, Germany. 2002.

"Archival Description: Status Report" at Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Baltimore. 2002.

“Extensible Markup Language,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 2002.

"Intensive EAD: A One-Week Introductory Course in the Rare Book School," at Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Birmingham. 2002.

“Emergence of Digital Humanities Scholarship”

-        American Library Association, Rare Book and Manuscript Section, Atlanta. 2002.

-        Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 2002.

"Extensible Markup Language: Technology Update" at Virtual Heritage meeting, Charlottesville. 2002.

"Advanced Technology and the History of the Book" at Digital Access to Book Trade Archives, The Hague. 2002.

"Standards for Electronic Collaboration, Publishing, and Archiving"

-        Rice University. 2001.

-        Universität Trier, Germany. 2000.

"The Nature and Importance of Standards in Communities", Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library planning workshop, University of Virginia. 2001.

“Encoded Archival Description: Introduction and Overview” [actual title and content varies]

-        University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2002.

-        Computing Arts Conference, Sydney, Australia. 2001.

-        University of Washington, Seattle. 2000.

-        State Archive, Düsseldorf, Germany. 2000

-        National Archive, Berlin, Germany. 2000.

-        Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth, Australia. 2000.

-        The National Archives, Dublin, Ireland. 1999.

-        ArchivSchule, Marburg, Germany. 1999.

-        Archiefschool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1999.

-        Society of North Carolina Archivists Meeting, Duke University, Durham, NC. 1998.

-        Public Record Office Open Day, Public Record Office, Kew Gardens. 1997.

-        Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Wilmington, Delaware. 1997.

-        King's College, London. 1996.

-        University of Glasgow, Glasgow. 1996.

-        Association of Canadian Archivists, Whitehorse. 1996.

“Thematic Research Collections: A New Genre in Humanities Publishing”

-        University of Western Australia, Perth. 2000.

-        University College Dublin, Ireland. 1999.

Keynote, Scottish Archive Network EAD Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1999.

“The Samantabhadra Project: Technical Overview,” at Digital Resources in the Humanities, King’s College. London. 1999.

"Die Encoded Archival Description (maschinenlesbare archivische Erschließung)," at the Das digitale Archiv Duderstadt im Kontext der Diskussion um die Digitalisierung. Göttingen, Germany. 1999.

"Strategies for Electronic Archiving," at the Exploring the New Media Conference, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1999.

"American Heritage Virtual Archive Project," at the Digital Resources in the Humanities, Glasgow, Scotland. 1998.

"After the Fall: Structured Data at IATH" (with John Unsworth), at the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Debrecen, Hungary. 1998.

"Emerging Standards for Hypermedia: Extensible Markup Language," Exploring the New Media Conference, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1998.

"Encoded Archival Description," American Library Association LITA/ALCTS Metadata Institute, Washington, D.C. 1998.

"Thematic Research Archives: Emergence of a New Publishing Genre," Library and Townsend Center Lecture, University of California, Berkeley. 1998.

"Encoded Archival Description: A Progress Report," and panel chair, Society of American Archivists, San Diego. 1996.

Encoded Archival Description standards development update and demonstration at Planning Conference: University of California Implementation of Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Los Angeles. 1995.

Berkeley Finding Aid Project description and demonstration at the ACRL Arts Section/LITA Technology and the Arts Interest Group, Chicago. 1995.

Panelist at the ALCTS "AACR2000: Toward the Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules" Preconference, Chicago. 1995.

“Introduction to SGML and the Berkeley Finding Aid Project,” ACRL/RBMS Preconference, Bloomington, Indiana. 1995.

"Settling the Digital Frontier: The Future of Scholarly Communication in the Humanities,” at Berkeley Finding Aid Conference, University of California, Berkeley. 1995.

"Access to Digital Representations of Archival Materials: The Berkeley Finding Aid Project,” at the Research Libraries Group Digital Image Access Project Workshop, Palo Alto. 1995.

"Law and Order in an Unruly Information Universe," at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators, Philadelphia. 1995.

“SGML Software in the Berkeley Finding Aid Project” and demonstration of California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, the Library of Congress' Averell Harriman Collection, and The Bancroft Library’s Graves Pictorial Collection at theALA LITA Programmer/Analyst Discussion Group, Philadelphia. 1995.

“Berkeley Digital Library Initiatives” and demonstration of California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, the Library of Congress' Averell Harriman Collection, and The Bancroft Library’s Graves Pictorial Collection.

-        Quarterly Meeting of the Northern California SGML User Group. 1994. Presentation summarized in "Using Today's Data in the Next Century & Beyond" in Spectrum (Berkeley: Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics & Space Astrophysics Group), v. 2, no. 1, January 23, 1995.

-        visiting archivists from the Russian Archives Federation (Rosarkhiv). 1994.

-        National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland. 1994. (sans California Cornerstones).

-        National Digital Library Visitor's Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1994.

"The Berkeley Finding Aid Project: Standards in Navigation," paper presented at the American Research Libraries/Association of American University Presses 4th Symposium on Electronic Publishing on the Network, Washington, D.C. 1994.

“Berkeley Finding Aid Project” and demonstration of Graves Pictorial Collection.

-        Invitational Workshop for Image Collection Implementors, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester. 1994.

-        Society of American Archivists, Descriptive Section, Indianapolis. 1994.

-        Museum Computer Network, Computer Interchange of Museum Information Panel, Washington, D.C. 1994, Washington.

-        California Historical Society, Berkeley. 1994.

-        American Library Association, Rare Book and Manuscript Section Preconference, Miami. 1994.

-        Workshop on Cataloging Electronic Texts, co-sponsored by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Somerset, New Jersey. 1994.

-        Research Libraries Group, Digital Image Access Project (DIAP) meeting at Stokes Imaging Services, Austin, Texas. 1994.

"Standard Generalized Markup Language and the Future of Cataloging," a paper presented at the North American Serials Interest Group, Vancouver. 1994.

"Sharing the Wealth: A Description of the Berkeley Finding Aid Project," at the Society of American Archivists Conference, New Orleans. 1993.

"The One and the Many: Cooperative Cataloging and Authority Control," at the Northern California Technical Processes Group of the California Library Association. 1992.

Panel "Authority Control in the Augmented Catalog", introduced and moderated at LITA/ALCTS CCS Interest Group on Authority Control in the Online Environment, Atlanta. 1991.

"MARC and Purity of Thought in Cataloging: Another Look at Series Description and Access," Midwinter Meeting of the LITA/ALCTS CCS Interest Group on Authority Control in the Online Environment, in Washington D.C. 1989.

Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, Official Minutes of the Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 1988.

Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, Official Minutes of Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio. 1988.