Presentations & Papers
Presentations
†Interfaces for document representation in digital music libraries (with Laurent Pugin and Ichiro Fujinaga). Presented at the 2009 International Conference for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan. Paper | Slides
Building a comprehensive digital library for 19th century Swiss composers (with Laurent Pugin). Presented at the 2009 International Association of Music Libraries Conference, Amsterdam, NL.
Digital music libraries. March 2009. Guest lecture for the graduate seminar on Music Information Acquisition, Preservation and Retrieval (MUMT 621). Slides forthcoming.
How we search: Foraging, stumbling and sense-making in online environments. March 2009. Presentation for the Music Technology Graduate Students Colloquium, McGill University. Slides forthcoming.
Web-based Musical Document Viewer for Digital Music Libraries (with Laurent Pugin, Gabrialla Hanke-Knaus & Ichiro Fujinaga). Poster presented at the 2008 International Conference for Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, PA
The IRAB/McGill Arabic Music Database, 2008 Canadian Association of Music Libraries Conference, Vancouver BC. Slides
Cataloguing Music, guest lecture for the “Library of Congress Classification” course at Algonquin College, November 2007. Slides
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Building Relationships for Music Information Retrieval, graduate seminar in Music Information Retrieval, January 2007. Slides
† = Peer-reviewed publication
Papers
Graduate
A Lightweight Implementation of the Davies-Plumley Beat Tracker (with Jason Hockman). Prepared for Music & Machine Learning Seminar, 2008. PDF
Classification of Scotch Whisky: The ROCKS Approach. Prepared for Cataloguing & Classification Seminar, 2007. PDF
Undergraduate
An Examination of the Role of Digital Collections in the Study of Music History. Undergraduate thesis, 2004 PDF
“Between the Lands of East and West:” The Use of Japanese Noh elements in [Benjamin Britten’s] Curlew River. Musical Form & Analysis Seminar, 2004 PDF
Plainchant in Ockeghem’s Missa Pro Defunctis: A Practical Comparison of Sources. Musical Form & Analysis Seminar, 2004. PDF