speaking & writing
IA Summit presentations
Developing junior programmes in UX teams with Margaret Hanley and Henning Fischer
http://www.iasummit.org/proceedings/2008/developing_junior_programmes_i
Designing with structured data
with Margaret Hanley, John Allsopp and Thomas Vander Wal
http://www.iasummit.org/proceedings/2007/designing_with_structured_data
Metadata games: cutting the metacrap
The metadata threshold: Combining folksonomies and controlled vocabularies at the BBC
http://www.euroia.org/2006/posters.html
The growing pains of a controlled vocabulary: an analysis of what happens when you let your users contribute to your CVs http://www.iasummit.org/2005/conferencedescrip.htm#66
Content modelling for IAs: How to make the most of your content in your content management system
with Margaret Hanley and Sandra Green
http://www.iasummit.org/2005/preconferencedescrip.htm#modelling
Guest lectures
I’ve given lectures to undergraduates at Manchester Metropolitan University and to post-grads at Loughborough University.
Articles
Contributing Editor for FUMSI
http://www.fumsi.com/manage/
Managing information about people
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/64011
Manage section of “1997-2007: A Decade of Find, Use, Manage, Share”
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2613
Information Architecture Summit 2007
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2494
“2001 to 2006: Five Years of Information Architecture”
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/2529
Changing Approaches to Metadata to bbc.co.uk: From Chaos to Control and Then Letting Go Again
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-06/loasby.html
What does your website say about you?
http://www.jinfo.com/newsletter/Jinfo%20Newsletter%20116.txt
Cracking metadata: Lessons learned at the BBC
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/loasby.htm
Podcasts
Taxonomy, folksonomy and metadata
http://www.uxpod.com/index.php?post_id=151370