Margaret Graham
Margaret Graham is Principal Lecturer and Head of Student Well
Being in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences,
Northumbria University. Recently she was Director of Research in the
Business Information Systems division of the School before a major
re-structuring of the School. Prior to joining the School in January 2002, Margaret was Research and Development Manager at the Institute for Image Data Research (IIDR), set up by Northumbria in 1997. In IIDR, she was actively involved in a number of externally funded research projects, in addition to managing the Institute on a day to day basis, organising conferences and events. Previously, Margaret had taught for many years in the School of Information Studies, now part of her new School, in the areas of information storage and retrieval, library automation and information networking, following thirteen years experience in academic libraries.
Her current research interests are primarily focused on knowledge seeking behaviour, and knowledge sharing and transfer, but she maintains her interest in image seeking, retrieval and use. She has published in the library, computing and art history areas and has presented papers on her research at a number of national and international conferences.
Margaret is the current Programme Chair for the long running biannual Northumbria International Conferences on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services. The 8th Conference on the theme ‘Libraries plus: adding value in the cultural community’ is to be held in Florence, in August 2009. The previous Conference was held near Stellenbosch, South Africa, in August 2007.
Margaret has a degree in Mathematics from London University and a Master of Arts (by research) in Social Sciences from Durham University. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals, the British Computer Society and the Chartered Management Institute.
Refereed Journal Papers:
Graham, M E (2004) Enhancing visual resources for searching and
retrieval – is content-based image retrieval a solution? Literary and
Linguistic Computing, 19(3), p.321-333
Brown, A J E; Mulholland, R; Graham, M; Riley, J; Vassilev, V; Eakins, J;
Furness, K (2002) When images work faster than words: the integration of
content-based image retrieval with the Northumbria Watermark Archive.
Restaurator, 23 (3), p.187-203
Professional & Invited Journal Papers:
Graham, M E and Bailey, C. (2006) Digital images and art historians –
Compare and Contrast revisited. Art Libraries Journal.
p.21-24.
Graham, M E. (2001) The cataloguing and indexing of images: time for
a new paradigm? Art Libraries Journal. 26(1), p.22-27.
Submitted Conference Papers:
Lai, H., Graham, M. (2008) National diversities in developing a supportive
organizational culture for knowledge management, a comparative study
between China and the UK: CAMOT 2008 International Conference - Technology
Management and Innovation in China: Challenges and Opportunities in the
21st Century. Beijing.
Graham, M E and Bailey, C (2005) ‘Digital images and art
historians – Compare and Contrast revisited.’ Paper presented at
DRH2005: Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, 4-7 September
2005, University of Lancaster.
Graham, M E (2003) ‘Enhancing Visual Resources for Searching and
Retrieval – is Content-Based Image Retrieval a Solution?’ Paper
presented at DRH2003: Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, 31
August – 3 September 2003, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham
Ward, A A, Graham M E, Riley, K J and Sheen, N. (2002) Enhancing a
Historical Digital Art Collection: Evaluation of Content-Based Image
Retrieval on Collage. Presented at Digital Art History? Exploring Practice
in a Network Society: CHArt 18th Annual Conference, 14 & 15
November, London.
Ward, A A, Graham, M E, Riley, K J & Eliot, N. (2001) Collage and
Content-based Image Retrieval: Collaboration for enhanced services for the
London Guildhall Library. Presented at Museums and the Web 2001, 15-17
March, Seattle.
Invited Conference Papers:
Graham, M E (2003) ‘Image users - what do we know about them?’
Presented at Changing images: The role of photographic collections in
the digital age. An international SEPIA conference at the Finnish Museum of
Photography, 18-20 September 2003, Helsinki. (Presentation available at: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/conferencePapers/Graham.pdf)
Graham, M E (2003) ‘Visual information: the work of the IIDR’.
Presented at ARLIS (Art Libraries Society, UK & Ireland)
Conference 2003, 3-6 July 2003, University of Sussex, Brighton.
Graham, M E, Ward, A A & Riley, J. (2002) ‘Visual searching:
finding what you want (and what you don’t want!)’. Presented at
The Challenge of Image and Video Retrieval: an international conference
(CIVR2002), 19 July, London.
Graham, M E. (2002) ‘Users and images’. Presented at
International Digital Images Symposium, 20-21 June, London.
Graham, M E. (2001) ‘Cataloguing and indexing practices in UK
art libraries’. Presented at First Expert Meeting, SEPIA
(Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access) WP5: Descriptive
Models and Current Applications, 26-27 April, Stockholm
Graham, M E. (2001) ‘Visual information seeking oriented
research’. Presented at Suchbilder Congress, 6-8 February, Berlin.
Book Chapters, Reports & Other Publications:
Ward, A A, Graham M E, Riley, K J & Sheen, N. (2005) ‘Enhancing a
Historical Digital Art Collection: Evaluation of Content-Based Image
Retrieval on Collage’. In Bentkowska-Kafel, A, Cashen, T & Gardiner, H
(Eds) Digital art history: a subject in transition. Intellect, 2005
(Computers and the History of Art; Vol 1). p.101-112
Brown, A J E, Mulholland, R, Graham, M E & Riley, J (2003)
‘Watermarks on the Web’. In Digital Resources for the
Humanities 2001-2002: an edited selection of papers. Anderson, J et
al. (Eds.) Office for Humanities Communication, 2003. p.19-33.
Conniss, L R, Davis, J E & Graham, M E (2003) A User-Oriented
Evaluation Framework for the Development of Electronic Image Retrieval
Systems in the Workplace: VISOR II final report. Resource (Library
and Information Commission Research Report 144) ISBN 1902394771; ISSN
1466-2949.
Ward, A A, Graham, M E & Riley, K J. (2002) Evaluation of
Content-Based Image Retrieval in operational settings: the Corporation of
London Guildhall Library and Art Gallery; the British Library; The British
Broadcasting Corporation. Resource. (Library & Information
Commission Research Report 143). ISBN 1902394763; ISSN
1466-2949.
Bailey, C & Graham, M E (2001) The corpus and the art historian.
In Digital evidence: selected papers from DHR2000, Digital Resources
for the Humanities Conference, University of Sheffield, September 2000.
Fraser, M et al (eds). Office for Humanities Communication,
p.115-130
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