Dorothy’s work includes archival processing and digitization, library reference, instruction and workshop design, linked open data curation, scholarly publications in science and technology, and more...
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Talks and Workshops
- Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners, Center for Digital Editing – eLaboratories, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 8–9, 2026
- Online Dispute Systems Workshop. Media Economies Design Lab. University of Colorado Boulder. March 12, 2026.
- SEEKCommons Research Coordination Network workshop. November 15, 2025:“They came for our land, now they are coming for our data”: Supporting digital sovereignty in the face of AI enclosures. [co-organizer, virtual]
- The Meeting of The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), September 5, 2025: Self-Representation and Self-Advocacy of Neurodivergent Wikipedia Editors on Contributor Forums. [talk]
- HOPE_16 (Hackers on Planet Earth), August 16, 2025: Design for Neurodiversity: Creating Neuro-Inclusive Spaces. [talk]
- Wikimania Nairobi, August 7, 2025: Handling Reports of Code of Conduct Violations in Wikimedia Movement Groups and Organizations. [panelist, virtual]
- 2025 LD4 Conference: Linked Data in the Real World, July 29, 2025: Scholarly Profiling in Wikidata: Creating a Knowledge Graph for the SEEKCommons Open Science Research Network. [virtual]
- The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Annual Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 16, 2025: Enriching Wikipedia Articles About Topics in Music to Promote Public Knowledge. [talk]
- 4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, April 11, 2025: Considering Neurodiversity [panelist, virtual].
Academic Publications
Papers
Geiger, R., Howard, D., & Irani, L. (2021). The Labor of Maintaining and Scaling Free and Open-Source Software Projects. Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’24), Article 175. Open Access version here
Howard D. & Irani, L. (2019). Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. 2019. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention.
Extended abstracts
Howard, D. & Geiger, S. (2019). Ethnography, Genealogy, and Political Economy in the Post-Market Era of Free & Open-Source Software. Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’19), Extended Abstracts.