Recent

Information Visualization: Failed Experiment or Future Revolution?
5th Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit
February 27-29, 2004. Austin, Texas

Refereed Publications

Campbell, D. G. & Fast, K. (2004; in press). Academic Libraries and the Semantic Web: What the Future May Hold for Research-Supporting Library Catalogues. Journal of Academic Librarianship, (in press).

Fast, K. & Campbell, D. G. (2002). The ontological perspectives of the Semantic Web and the Metadata Harvesting Protocol: Applications of metadata for improving web search. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 26(4).

General Publications

Fast, K., Steckel, M., & Leise, F. (2003, October 27). Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus. Boxes and Arrows.

Fast, K., Steckel, M., & Leise, F. (2003, August 26). Synonym Rings and Authority Files. Boxes and Arrows.

Fast, K., Steckel, M., & Leise, F. (2003, April 7). Creating a Controlled Vocabulary. Boxes and Arrows.

Fast, K., Steckel, M., & Leise, F. (2002, December 16). What is a controlled vocabulary? Boxes and Arrows.

Fast, K., Steckel M., & Leise, F. (2002, December 9). All about facets and controlled vocabularies. Boxes and Arrows

Fast, K. (2002, August 19). Recording screen activity during usability testing. Boxes and Arrows.

Conference Presentations

Information Visualization: Failed Experiment or Future Revolution?. ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit 2004 (Austin, TX), February 2004.

Metadata harvesting. ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit 2003 (Portland,OR), March 2003.

The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Ontario Library Association Superconference 2003 (Toronto, ON). February 2003.

Small scale content management systems. Intracom 2002 (Montreal, QB), September 20002.

Organizing information: Designing for Findability. Web Builder 2002 (Las Vegas, NV), September 2002.

Understanding the Power of Blogging. Intracom 2002 (Montreal, QB), September 2001.

A Practical XML-Based Application for Distributing Intranet News. Intranets 2002 (Santa Clara, CA). April 2001.

Alternative & Low-Cost Intranet Technologies. Intranets 2002 (Santa Clara, CA). April 2001.

Open Source Content Management Systems. Intranets East (Reston, VA), October 2000.

The Right Tool for the Job: A Survey of Web Development Toolkits. Intracom 2000 (Montreal, QB), November 2000.

XSL: XML Style Sheets and Transforms. Intracom 2000 (Montreal, QB), November 2000.

The Right Tool for the Job: A Survey of Web Development Toolkits. Intranets 2000 (San Jose, CA), Febrary 2000.

XSL: XML Style Sheets and Transforms. Intranets 2000 (San Jose, CA), February 2000.

Simplify Your Life, Satisfy Your Users: An Introduction to Dynamically Generating Content. Online World ’99 (Chicago, IL), October ’99.

XML, Metadata, & Structured Documents. Online World ’99 (Chicago, IL), October 1999.

The XML Dilemma: An Introduction to XML. Intranets ’99 (San Francisco, CA), April 1999.

Web Maintenance and Security (minus the security). Intranets ’99 (San Francisco, CA), April 1999.