Presentations

Selected talks, guest lectures, and conference presentations.

2026

Kerchner D. (March 2026). Pixi: Fast, Reproducible Environments for Python, R and More Without the Headaches. GW Open Source Conference.

Kerchner D. (March 2025). Positioning the R in Open Source: RStudio + GitHub + renv Workflows. GW Open Source Conference.
Kerchner D. (July 2024 and July 2025). You Can Be a GW Student Too! A Guide for LAI Staff and Librarians. LAI Institute.

Kerchner D. (May 2024). Association of Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Newborn Gut Metabolome. GW Biostatistics Center.

Kerchner D. (March 2023). Librarians Launching Success in the Era of Coding as an Essential Researcher Literacy. Empirical Librarians Conference.

Kerchner D. (December 2021). Social Feed Manager: A Social Media Capture Tool. Digital Preservation Coalition (UK) Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group General Meeting.
Kerchner D. (November 2021). Version Control and Collaboration with Git[Hub], Showcasing Your Work with GitHub Pages, and Your Code as a Scholarly Object with Zenodo. Guest lecture, GW PUBH 6860 Principles of Bioinformatics.
Kerchner D. (April 2021). Bash Shell / Unix Command Line. Guest speaker, GW Coders meeting.
Kerchner D., Bahador B. (January 2021). Spark Talk: Monitoring Hate Speech During the 2020 Presidential Election.

Kerchner D. (August 2020). The ISIS Files: A Hyrax Implementation. Guest speaker, Samvera Partners call.
Kerchner D., Wrubel L. (February 2020). Social Feed Manager. Digital Preservation Coalition webinar.

Kerchner D. (November 2019). RStudio + Git for Collaboration and Reproducibility. GW Milken Institute Department of Epidemiology seminar, Washington, DC.
Kerchner D. (September 2019). Social Feed Manager: Helping Researchers and Archivists Build Social Media Collections. iPres 2019 Conference on Digital Preservation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kerchner D. (July 2019). Getting Data With APIs. Capital Area Business Academic Librarians Summer Meeting.

Kerchner D., Wrubel L. (December 2018). Social Feed Manager & Social Media Archiving. Digital Preservation Coalition webinar.

Ye D., Kerchner D., Ye H. (March 2017). Web Archiving for Librarians: A Three-University Collaboration to Preserve Non-Official Voices in China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign. ACRL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Kerchner D., Wrubel L., Littman J. (March 2017). Coding Consultations: Meeting Today’s Needs With a New Library Service. WRLC Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Kerchner D. (September 2016). GW ScholarSpace and the Making of a More Agile Library. GW Project Management Symposium, Washington, DC.

Chudnov D., Kerchner D., Wrubel L. (December 2013). Collecting Social Media and Supporting Twitter Research with Social Feed Manager. Coalition for Networked Information annual meeting, Washington, DC.