talks, posters, articles, and other publications

talks and panels

Blecksmith, Anne and Esmé Cowles, co-chairs of North American section (October 2022). International sprint relay symposium: Creating a toolkit for Virtual Reading Room services. Multi-part virtual symposium, curated proceeds form the RLUK Community-driven toolkit for the development and delivery of Virtual Reading Rooms (VRRs).
Cowles, Esmé and Wind Cowles (October 2022). Engaging with the entire research data management lifecycle (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RQKF5, Google Slides). Talk at Samvera Connect (virtual).
Cowles, Esmé and Kate Lynch (April 2021). Moving "in-person" access online during the pandemic (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4ZTP3, Google Slides). Talk at Samvera Virtual Connect.
Cowles, Esmé and Maria Matienzo (December 2020). A Tree's Strength Is Its Trunk: IIIF as Core Operational Infrastructure (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BXYF9, Google Slides). Talk at CNI Membership Meeting (virtual).
Cowles, Esmé and Kim Leaman (October 2020). Shifting Gears: What do digital projects look like when you can't digitize anything? (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5XQTK, Google Slides). Talk at Samvera Connect (virtual).
Blair, Charles, Lina Bountouri, Bertrand Caron, Esmé Cowles, Angela Di Iorio, Rebecca Guenther, Evelyn McLellan, Elizabeth Russey Roke (September 2018). PREMIS 3 OWL Ontology: Engaging sets of linked data (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/E8VJ6). Talk at iPres, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cowles, Esmé (June 2018). Valkyrie: Reimagining the Samvera Community (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HUKQJ, Google Slides). Talk at Open Repositories, Bozeman, Montana.
Cowles, Esmé, Karen Estlund, and Tom Johnson (June 2018). Fedora API Specification and Implementations. Panel at Open Repositories, Bozeman, Montana.
Cowles, Esmé and Shaun Ellis (May 2018). IIIF Between and Within Applications (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HKZFX, Google Slides). Talk at IIIF Conference, Washington, DC.
Cowles, Esmé (February 2018). Emoji Curation (recording, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DPH8E, Google Slides). Lightning talk at Code4Lib, Washington, DC.
Cowles, Esmé (October 2016). Curating Research Data with Hydra and PCDM (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/43ADB, Google Slides). Talk at eResearch Australasia, Melbourne, Australia.
Cowles, Esmé, Robert Sanderson, and Jon Stroop (June 2015). The Portland Common Data Model. (Google Slides). Talk at Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Cowles, Esmé (March 2014). Fedora 4: The Incredible Shrinking Repository (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4H5SU, Google Slides). Talk at Code4Lib, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fleming, Declan and Esme Cowles (December 2014). UCSD Fedora 4 Beta Testing. Panel at CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting, Washington, DC.
Cowles, Esmé, Matt Critchlow, and Bradley Westbrook (February 2013). All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited. (eScholarship). Talk at Code4Lib, Chicago, Illinois.
Cowles, Esmé (February 2011). UC San Diego Mobile Apps. Lightning talk at Code4Lib 2011, Bloomington, Indiana.
Cowles, Esmé and Linda Barnhart (November 2003). The Union Catalog of Art Images (UCAI): Aggregating and Standardizing Diverse Legacy Meetadata. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rQoE3W-gRLExj90Olp1C3fBW0y7SjQLa/view">Google Drive). Talk at DLF Fall Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

specifications, ontologies, white papers, and articles

Armintor, Ben, Esmé Cowles, Daniel Lamb, Simeon Warner, and Andrew Woods (May 2021). Fedora API Specification 1.0. (specification, Github). Specification of the Fedora Commons repository API.
Blair, Charles, Lina Bountouri, Bertrand Caron, Esmé Cowles, Angela Di Iorio, Rebecca Guenther, Evelyn McLellan, Elizabeth Russey Roke (September 2018). PREMIS OWL Ontology for PREMIS Data Dictionary version 3 (ontology, Github). OWL ontology.
Matienzo, Maria, Antoine Isaac, Valentine Charles, Esmé Cowles, Karen Estlund, Tom Johnson, Patrick Peiffer, Richard J. Urban, and Maarten Zeinstra (October 2015). Rightsstatements.org White Paper: Requirements for the Technical Infrastructure for Standardized International Rights Statements. White paper.
Cowles, Esmé, Nick Ruest, and Rob Sanderson (May 2015). PCDM Use vocabulary (vocabulary, Github). RDFS ontology.
Cowles, Esmé, Aaron Coburn, Rob Sanderson, Nick Ruest, Ben Armintor, Karen Estlund, et al (March 2015). Portland Common Data Model (ontology, Github). RDFS ontology.
Cowles, Esmé, et al (April 2007). VRA Core 4 XML Schema (schema, Github). XML schema.
Cowles, Esmé and Steve Lawson (July 2002). Sage: Developing a Database for Online Resources at the University of California, San Diego. (Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 19 No. 7, doi: 10.1108/lhtn.2002.23919gaf.002).
Cowles, Esmé and Leonard Carson (October 1999). Lessons Learned from PCASSO. Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX Systems Administrators, vol. 8, no. 10, p. 43-47.

workshops

Cowles, Esmé and Adam Wead (October 2018). Introduction to Valkyrie (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5FUVB). Full-day tutorial at Samvera Connect, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wilcox, David, Andrew Woods, Danny Bernstein, Esmé Cowles, and Josh Westgard (May 2018). FedoraCamp NASA. Three-day workshop at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Cowles, Esmé, Yinlin Chen, and Mike Durbin (February 2018). Interacting with Standards: Hands-on Fedora. Half-day tutorial at Code4Lib, Washington, DC.
Harlow, Christina, Maria Matienzo, Esmé Cowles and Nick Ruest (March 2017). Data Modeling 201: Building Models and Profiles with PCDM. Half-day tutorial at Code4Lib, Los Angeles, California.
Seeger, Bethany, Esmé Cowles, and Andrew Woods (March 2017). Fedora Import/Export in Action. Half-day tutorial at Code4Lib, Los Angeles, California.
Cowles, Esmé (October 2016). Introduction to Hydra and Fedora 4. Full-day tutorial at eResearch Australasia, Melbourne, Australia.
Cowles, Esmé, Karen Estlund, and Nick Ruest (June 2016). Data Modeling with PCDM. Half-day tutorial at Open Repositories, Dublin, Ireland.
Wilcox, David, Andrew Woods, Esmé Cowles, Aaron Coburn, and Mike Durbin (November 2015). FedoraCamp Duke. Three-day workshop at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Cowles, Esmé and Andrew Woods (September 2014). Fedora 4 / Hydra: Test drive and Roadmap planning. Workshop at Hydra Connect, Cleveland, Ohio.

posters

Chortaria, Christa, Carolyn Cole, Esmé Cowles, James Griffin III, Anna Headley, Eliot Jordan, Francis Kayiwa, Kate Lynch, and Trey Pendragon (October 2020). Supporting Digital Collections and Discovery (doi: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9HJ3, Google Drawing). Poster at Samvera Connect (virtual).
Chortaria, Christina, Esmé Cowles, James Griffin, Anna Headley, Eliot Jordan, Trey Pendragon, Nikitas Tampakis, Francis Kayiwa, and Jon Stroop (October 2019). Digital Necromancy (doi: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9HJ3, Google Drawing). Poster at Samvera Connect.
Christina Chortaria, Esmé Cowles, James Griffin, Anna Headley, Eliot Jordan, Francis Kayiwa, Trey Pendragon, Jon Stroop, and Nikitas Tampakis (October 2018). Workflow, Preservation, and Delivery with Figgy (doi: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9HJ3, Google Drawing). Poster at Samvera Connect.
Cowles, Esmé, James Griffin III, Anna Headley, Eliot Jordan, Francis Kayiwa, Trey Pendragon, Jon Stroop, and Nikitas Tampakis (October 2017). Seeking Performance for Digital Collections (doi: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9HJ3, Google Drawing). Poster at Samvera Connect.
Cowles, Esmé, Eliot Jordan, Trey Pendragon, Jon Stroop, and Nikitas Tampakis (October 2016). Plum(b)ing Workflow, Preservation, and Delivery with Plum (doi: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9HJ3, Google Drawing). Poster at Hydra Connect, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cowles, Esme, Matt Critchlow, Arwen Hutt and Declan Fleming (2014, September). Why Can't We All Just Get Along? (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/X7GQ6, Google Drive). Poster at Hydra Connect, Cleveland, Ohio.