CONSULTANCIES
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Consultant, Geographic Metadata Remediation, October 2009 to Present
New York Public Library Maps Division, New York City
Project Manager, NYPL Map Rectifier, June 2008 to Present
Center for History and New Media (CHNM), George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Zotero Project Associate and Software Evangelist, March 2007 to June 2008
Mumbai Freemap Community GIS (Geographic Information System), Mumbai
Pan-Asia ICT Research & Development Project Grant from the Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP), May 2006 to May 2008
Mahiti Infotech, Bangalore
Project Consultant for NGO Web Development, January 2004 to July 2005
Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship
Faculty, NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities at University of Virginia Scholars Lab, Charlottesville, November 2009
Workshop on APIs in the Digital Humanities
Presentation on NYPL Map Rectifier for NiCHE (Network in Canadian History of Environment), Missisauga, Ontario, October 2009
Open Historical Maps: Crowdsourcing, Open Source GIS, and the Research Web
Presentation with Schuyler Erle at ABCD GIS Group, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, Cambridge, Mass, 15 April 2009
Zotero for Wikimaniacs *
Presentation on Zotero at Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, July 2008
Free your Bibliography
Workshop on Zotero at Princeton University Libraries, March 2008
Zotero and You, or, Bibliography on the Semantic Web
Presentation on Zotero at code4lib 2008 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, February 2008
Methodology for the Infinite Archive
Presentation with William J. Turkel in the Digital Humanities Initiative at the Harvard University Humanities Center, Cambridtge, Mass, December 2007
Fox in a Box: Tools for the Research Web
Graduate Students Skills Workshop for MIT History Anthropology & STS, November 2007
Hacking Historical Maps
Workshop at Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, May 2007
Freemap India Workshop
Organized with the Open-Source Geospatial Foundation at the Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, Mumbai, January 2007
Metrologue: Publishing, Mapping and Archiving
Presented at “Metrolog(ue): Emerging Urbanism in India” organised by CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) and SARAI, Mumbai, December 2006
Crisis of the Database in South Asia
Presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2006
Building the Free Map
Presented in the workshop on “Open Maps: Building, Accessing, Annotating” at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures (WSFII), London, U.K., October 2005
DOC-SHOP New Media Documentation Workshop
Organized with PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai, May 2003
Making Indepedent Media
Presented at the Alternatives to the Media Empires Workshop at the Asian Social Forum, Hyderabad, December 2002
Indymedia in Bombay
Presented at the Tactical Media Lab organized by SARAI/Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, October 2002
WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT
Stony Brook University Department of History
December 2007 to Present
Mumbai Freemap Community GIS
March 2004 to Present
CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai
January 2004 to Present
MIT Urban South Asia Workshop
January 2006 to Present
The Memory Bank 3.0, London/Paris
January 2002 to June 2008
Future Academy Synchronisations: Bangalore/Edinburgh/Dakar
September to December 2004
* With thanks to Benjamin Mako Hill for presenting in my absence.
