Cathy Marshall is a Principal Researcher in MSR's Silicon Valley Lab.
Cathy's research falls under the rubric of personal information management and lies in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities. Her interests include studying the crowd; personal digital archiving; personal and collaborative information management; how people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate, navigate through, and interact with ebooks and other digital material; and spatial hypertext. She holds provocative views on topics like the Semantic Web and social tagging.
For anything you don't find here, please see Cathy Marshall's homepage at the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University; there you will find a more complete list of her publications, essays, fiction, and links to her blog and her twitter feed.
Her book about reading on the screen, Reading and Writing the Electronic Book, published by Morgan & Claypool (2009), includes chapters on annotation, reading as a social activity, and thoughts about going beyond the print book (see a review).
selected talks (others available on request)
ACM Group 2012 | October 29-31, 2012 | Sanibel Island, FL |
supporting research collaboration through bi-level file synchronization (slides)
TPDL 2012 (keynote) | September 26, 2012 | Paphos, Cyprus |
Whose content is it anyway? Social media, personal data, and our digital legacy
NFAIS Annual Meeting (keynote) | June 15, 2012 | Philadelphia, PA |
Social media, personal data, and the fate of our digital legacy (slides)
Library of Congress | June 13, 2012 | Washington DC |
Social media, personal data, and the fate of our digital legacy (slides)
MOBIUS Annual Conference (keynote) | June 5, 2012 | Columbia, Missouri
Social media, personal data, and the fate of our digital legacy (slides)
Personal Archiving 2012 (keynote) | February 24, 2012 | Internet Archive, SF, CA
Ownership, aggregation, and reuse of personal data
ACM/IEEE JCDL 2011 | June 13-17, 2011 | Ottawa, CA |
The ownership and reuse of visual media (slides)
Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers (keynote) | June 17, 2011
Fourth Generation Ebooks (extended abstract)
Personal Archiving 2011 (keynote) | February 24, 2011 | Internet Archive, SF, CA
Δ or "people are people and things change" (slides)
Library of Congress NDIIPP Partners Meeting (closing plenary) | July 22, 2010 |
Personal archiving (slides)
code4lib 2010 (keynote) | February 23, 2010 | Asheville, NC |
people, their digital stuff, and time (slides)
ISchool Inaugural Symposium (keynote) | October 30, 2009 | U. of Texas, Austin |
The Sustainability of Everyday Stuff (slides)
ISchool Information Access Seminar | September 25, 2009 | UC Berkeley |
no bull, no spin: comparing tags with other types of photo metadata (slides)
CHIFOO (invited talk) | July 8, 2009 | Portland, OR |
reading and collaboration in a digital age (slides)
Digital Lives 2009 (keynote) | February 9, 2009 | British Library, London, England |
benign neglect in a digital world: a pragmatic look at personal archiving (slides)
BooksOnline 2008 | October 30, 2008 | Napa, CA |
collection level analysis tools for books online (slides)
USENIX FAST'08 (keynote) | Feb. 26-29, 2008 | San Jose, CA |
rethinking personal digital archiving (slides)
Tinderbox Weekend (invited talk) Dec. 1-2, 2007 | San Francisco, CA |
the roots of spatial hypertext (slides)
best paper awards
| conference | what's the paper about |
| ACM Group 2012 (Honorable mention) | collaboration via a bi-level file sync system |
| ACM/IEEE JCDL 2008 | |
| ACM/IEEE JCDL 2001 (Runner up) | |
| ACM Hypertext 1999 | |
| ACM Hypertext 1998 | |
| ACM Digital Libraries 1998 |
selected recent publications
Some of my recent publications are listed below, sorted more or less by topic. For a more complete publications list, please see my CSDL Web site at Texas A&M University. There you will also find a publications list sorted by year.
Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, Social Media Ownership: Using Twitter as a Window onto Current Attitudes and Beliefs, in Proceedings of CHI 2011, ACM, May 2011
Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, The Ownership and Reuse of Visual Media, in Proceedings of JCDL 2011, ACM, June 2011
Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, Attitudes about Institutional Archiving of Social Media, in Proceedings of Archiving 2011, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, May 2011
Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, Attitudes about Institutional Archiving of Social Media, in Proceedings of Archiving 2011, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, May 2011
Catherine C. Marshall, Challenges and Opportunities for Personal Digital Archiving, in I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era, pp. 90-114, Society of American Archivists, 2011
Catherine C. Marshall, From Writing and Analysis to the Repository: Taking the Scholars' Perspective on Scholarly Archiving, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2008
Catherine C. Marshall, Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field, in DLib Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3/4, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)/ D-Lib Magazine, March 2008
Catherine C. Marshall, Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions, in D-Lib Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3/4, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)/ D-Lib Magazine, March 2008
Frank McCown, Catherine C. Marshall, and Michael L. Nelson, Why Websites Are Lost (and How They're Sometimes Found), in Communications of the ACM, ACM, November 2009
Catherine C. Marshall, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson, Evaluating Personal Archiving Strategies for Internet-based Information, in Proceedings of Archiving 2007, May 2007
Catherine C. Marshall, Sara Bly, and Francoise Brun-Cottan, The Long Term Fate of Our Personal Digital Belongings: Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives, in Proceedings of Archiving 2006, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 , May 2006
Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñonesis, Meredith M. Skeels, and Tiziana Catarci, Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage, in Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2006
Catherine C. Marshall and Gene Golovchinsky, Saving Private Hypertext: requirements and pragmatic dimensions for preservation, in HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, August 2004
Catherine C. Marshall, Ted Wobber, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, and Douglas B. Terry, Supporting Research Collaboration through Bi-Level File Synchronization, in Proceedings of Group 2012, ACM, October 2012
cathy marshall and John C. Tang, That syncing feeling: Early user experiences with the cloud, in Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2012, ACM, 11 June 2012
Krishna P.N. Puttaswamy, Catherine C. Marshall, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Patrick Stuedi, Douglas B. Terry, and Ted Wobber, Docx2Go: collaborative editing of fidelity reduced documents on mobile devices, in MobiSys '10: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, June 2010
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Catherine C. Marshall, and Amin Vahdat, Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication, in 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), USENIX, April 2009
Catherine C. Marshall, Reading and Writing the Electronic Book, Morgan & Claypool, 2009
Catherine C. Marshall, The Gray Lady Gets a New Dress: a field study of the Times News Reader, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '07), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, June 2007
Catherine C. Marshall and Sara Bly, Turning the Page on Navigation, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '05), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, June 2005
Catherine C. Marshall and Christine Ruotolo, Reading-in-the-Small: a study of reading on small form factor devices, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '02), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, July 2002
Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit, Designing E-Books for Legal Research, in Proceedings of the 1rst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '01), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2001
Catherine C. Marshall and William Jones, Keeping Encountered Information, in Communications of the ACM, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 66-67, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2006
Catherine C. Marshall and Sara Bly, Saving and Using Encountered Information: implications for electronic periodicals, in CHI '05: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, April 2005
Catherine C. Marshall and Sara Bly, Sharing Encountered Information: digital libraries get a social life, in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '04), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, June 2004
Catherine C. Marshall and A. J. Bernheim Brush, Exploring the Relationship between Personal and Public Annotations, in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '04), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, June 2004
Catherine C. Marshall and A.J. Bernheim Brush, From Personal to Shared Annotations, in CHI '02: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2002
Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit, Designing E-Books for Legal Research, in Proceedings of the 1rst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '01), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2001
Catherine C. Marshall, No Bull, No Spin: A comparison of tags with other forms of user metadata, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009
Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, Which Semantic Web?, in HYPERTEXT '03: Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2003
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Cathy Marshall, and Amin Vahdat, Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication, no. MSR-TR-2008-116, August 2008
