I am an information scientist, researcher, and librarian/archivist.
Updates
Recent Talks
  • The Meeting of The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), September 5, 2025: Self-Representation and Self-Advocacy of Neurodivergent Wikipedia Editors on Contributor Forums.
  • HOPE_16 (Hackers on Planet Earth), August 16, 2025: Design for Neurodiversity: Creating Neuro-Inclusive Spaces.
  • Wikimania Nairobi, August 7, 2025: Handling Reports of Code of Conduct Violations in Wikimedia Movement Groups and Organizations.
  • 2025 LD4 Conference: Linked Data in the Real World, July 29, 2025: Scholarly Profiling in Wikidata: Creating a Knowledge Graph for the SEEKCommons Open Science Research Network.
  • The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Annual Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 16, 2025: Enriching Wikipedia Articles About Topics in Music to Promote Public Knowledge.
  • 4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, April 11, 2025: Considering Neurodiversity [panelist].
Academic Publications

Papers

Geiger, R., Howard, D., & Irani, L. (2021). The Labor of Maintaining and Scaling Free and Open-Source Software Projects. Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’24), Article 175. Open Access version here

Howard D. & Irani, L. (2019). Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. 2019. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention.

Extended abstracts

Howard, D. & Geiger, S. (2019). Ethnography, Genealogy, and Political Economy in the Post-Market Era of Free & Open-Source Software. Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’19), Extended Abstracts.