Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher in MSR's Silicon Valley Lab. She is currently working on Community Information Management applications and issues associated with personal digital archiving.
Cathy's research falls roughly under the rubric of personal information management and lies in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities. Her interests include digital archiving and long-term retrieval; how people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate, navigate through, and interact with ebooks and other electronic publications like e-magazines and e-newspapers; 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, her blog, and how she is related to Elvis.
selected recent talks
CHIFOO (invited talk) | July 8, 2009 | Portland, OR |
reading and collaboration in a digital age (slides)
MSR SVC lab meeting | April 29, 2009 | Mountain View, CA |
no bull, no spin: comparing tags with other types of photo metadata (slides)
DigCCurr 2009 (invited talk) | April 3, 2009 | UNC, Chapel Hill, NC |
personal digital archiving meets Snopes (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)
ASIS&T 2008 | October 25-29, 2008 | Columbus, OH |
three digital archiving myths (slides)
FDIS 2008 | June 30-July 2, 2008 | Woods Hole, MA |
new approaches to personal archiving (slides)
ACM/IEEE JCDL 2008 | June 15-20, 2008 | Pittsburgh, PA |
from writing and analysis to the repository (slides)
Annual Samuel Lazerow Lecture | March 10, 2008 | UBC, Vancouver, BC
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)
Fujitsu Technology Symposium (panel) | Nov. 14, 2007 | Sunnyvale, CA |
Microsoft and Web 2.0: a view from the trenches (slides)
upcoming conferences
ACM/IEEE JCDL 2009 (panels chair)| June 15-19, 2009 | Austin, TX
Archiving 2009 (program committee) | May 4-7, 2009 | Arlington, VA
WWW 2009/UI and Mobile Web (program committee) | Apr 20-24, 2009 | Madrid
Hypertext 2009 (program committee) | June 29-July 1, 2009 | Torino, Italy
best paper awards
| conference | what's the paper about |
| ACM/IEEE JCDL 2008 | |
| ACM/IEEE JCDL 2001 (Runner up) | |
| ACM Hypertext 1999 | |
| ACM Hypertext 1998 | |
| ACM Digital Libraries 1998 |
My recent publications are listed below, sorted approximately by topic. For a more complete publications list, please see my CSDL Web site.
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
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
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, 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 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
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
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
