2024
- Keynote: “The Role of Controlled Vocabularies in Inclusive Description,” International Terminology Working Group Meeting, Getty Research Institute, October 23-25, 2024
- Curationist Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit, September 19, 2024
- “Who’s Online: Assessing Participation of Community-Centered Archives in Digital Aggregators and Exhibitions,” Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, June 27, 2024
- “Inclusive Metadata Follow-up,” online discussion session, Southeastern NY Library Resources Council, April 24, 2024
- “Inclusive Metadata,” webinar, BAPLA, April 18, 2024
- “Becoming Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Challenging Identity Metrics in Favor of a Human-Centered Approach,” California Association of Museums, March 12, 2024
- “Instituting a framework for reparative description,” with Stephanie Luke, Archival Science, February 27, 2024
- “Metadata Learning and Unlearning Summit 2023,” report, Curationist.org, January 29, 2023
- “Inclusive Metadata,” webinar, Southeastern NY Library Resources Council, January 24, 2024
2023
- “DEI principles for custom taxonomies,” Journal of Digital Media Management, Henry Stewart Publications, Vol. 12, 2023-24
- “Who’s Online? Assessing Participation of Community-Centered Archives in Digital Aggregators and Exhibitions,” with Christine Kim and Madelynn Dickerson, DLF Forum, November 13, 2023
- “Decoding Metadata’s Impact on Inclusivity,” Dismantling the Canon, University of Washington, November 2, 2023
- “Inclusive Metadata: Why it’s important and how to assess your subject headings,” Lyrasis, October 4, 2023
- “Reparative Description for All: Building Better Practices Together,” with Stephanie Luke, ARCHIVES*RECORDS, Society of American Archivists, Washington, D.C., July 26-29, 2023
- Curationist Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit, June 21, 2023
- “Amplifying Access to Feminist Art: Cross-Institutional Collaboration to Create the Judy Chicago Research Portal,” Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference, April 18-21, 2023
- “Inclusive metadata: Steps to address diversity, equity and inclusion in your DAM,” Tenovos, April 5, 2023
- “Roundtable and Workshop: Curationist.org,” Terms of Art: Design, Description, and Discovery in Cataloging, The Hood Museum of Art and Dartmouth Research Computing, February 22-24, 2023
- “Writing and Publishing for Archivists,” Students and New Professionals Section and Archives and Archivists of Color Section, Society of American Archivists, February 20, 2023
- “Words Really Do Matter,” DAM and Museums 2023, Henry Stewart, February 9, 2023
- “Inclusive Metadata: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Digital Asset Management,” Tenovos, February, 2023
- “Q&A: Sharon Mizota, Speaker at Digital Asset Management For Museums Conference,” Jing Culture & Crypto, January 23, 2023
- “The Case for Custom DEI Taxonomies In Your Museum DAM,” LinkedIn, January 11, 2023
2022
- “Reimagining Art and Culture Webinar: Curationist Website Launch Event,” Curationist, December 7, 2022
- “What We Learn From Each Other: SAA’s Cohort Mentoring Program,” Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 27, 2022
- “Understanding the Impact of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Digital Asset Management,” Tenovos blog, July, 2022
- “Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata,” Metadata Learning & Unlearning, July 14, 2022
- “Reparative Description,” Society of American Archivists webinar, with Stephanie Luke, June 8, 2022
- “Working Together to Mentor BIPOC Archivists,” Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, May 20, 2022
- “Why so many heads of Buddha? Acknowledging the erasure of violence in OpenGLAM metadata,” Metadata Learning & Unlearning, March 22, 2022
- “Metadata Isn’t Neutral: Addressing Orientalism and Patriarchy in OpenGLAM Art,” Metadata Learning & Unlearning, March 4, 2022
- “We Are AIIP: I’m a DEI Metadata Consultant,” Association of Independent Information Professionals Blog, February 22, 2022
2021
- “OpenGLAM for OER: Digital Cultural Literacy and Engagement, from K-12 to Higher Ed & Beyond,” Open Education Conference, October 18-22, 2021
- “DEI and Collections Metadata/DEI Audit,” Society of American Archivists webinar, August 16, 2021
- “Cart Before the Horse: Planning for a New System,” Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting, April 27-30, 2021
- “Change is Good: Navigating Wikidata as a Controlled Descriptive Vocabulary,” Descriptive Notes, March 30, 2021
- “OER OpenGLAM Ontologies: Metadata for Educational Justice,” Mozilla Festival, March 8-19, 2021
2020
- “Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem,” Digital Library Federation Forum, November 9-13, 2020
2019
- “Leveraging Data in Entertainment Archives,” International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives, San Francisco, CA, September 17-18, 2019
- “Entertainment Born Digital Archives: Challenges and Limitations,” Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting, Long Beach, CA, April 24-27, 2019
- “Of Pigs and Pixie Dust: Tailoring Descriptive Vocabularies for Disney Animation Artwork,” Film Librarians Conference, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, May 15-17, 2019
2017
- “Using Dropbox to communicate with donors or creators,” Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting, Pasadena, CA, April 27-29, 2017