• (in preparation) Bettivia, Rhiannon. “Invisibility and Opacity in the Digital Archive”
• Bettivia, Rhiannon and Elizabeth Stainforth (2017). All and Each: A Socio-Technical Review of the European Commission’s Europeana Project. Digital Humanities Quarterly 11:3.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. (2016) “Where Does Significance Lie: Locating the Significant Properties of Video Games in Preserving Virtual Worlds II Data”. International Journal of Digital Curation 11:1. University of Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. (2014). “Boxes”. Qualitative Inquiry 20:3. SAGE Publications.

• Forthcoming 2017: Stainforth, Elizabeth and Rhiannon Bettivia. “The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures” in Zhu, Yujie et al Eds. Berghahn Books: Oxford, UK.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. “A Guided Tour Through the World of One Adolescent’s Girl Culture.” (1999). Co-authored with A. N. Valdivia. In S. Mazzarella and N. Pecora [eds.] Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture in the Creation of Identities, pp. 159-174. New York: Peter Lang.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. “Gender, Generation, Space, and Popular Music.” (1999). Co-authored with A. N. Valdivia. In C. McCarthy et. al. [eds.] Sound Identities: Popular Music and the Cultural Politics of Education, pp. 429-446. New York: Peter Lang.

• Bettivia, Rhiannon and Elizabeth Stainforth (2017). Performative Metadata: Reliability Frameworks and Accounting Frameworks in Content Aggregation Data Models. iConference 2018, Sheffield UK.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. The Power of Imaginary Users: Designated Communities in the OAIS Reference Model. ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. October, 2016.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Mapping Significance of Video Games in OAIS. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), October 3-6, 2016, 212-220.
• McDonough, Jerome; Senseney, Megan; Bettivia, Rhiannon; Evans, Craig; Kraus, Kari; Kirschenbaum, Matthew; Donahue, Rachel; Egert, Chris; Phelps, Andrew; Decker, Adrienne; Lowood, Henry; Rojo, Susan. Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 Final Report. (2013).

• Bettivia, Rhiannon (2017). Educating Digital Stewards. Digital Preservation Blog: International Digital Preservation Day (invited post).

Invited Talks

• Encoding Power: The Scripting of Archival Structures in Digital Spaces using the OAIS. Webinar for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Glasgow, UK. October, 2016.
• Engineering the University: An Interview with Julia Flanders for the empyresoft_skinned_space. March, 2015.
• Reading for Graduate School. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. September, 2014.

Conference Presentations

• Stainforth, Elizabeth and Rhiannon Bettivia. Negotiating the Scalar Politics of Digital Heritage. “Researching Digital Cultural Heritage” Conference. Manchester, UK. November, 2017.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. BitCurator as a Teaching Tool for Distance Education. BitCurator Forum 2017. Evanston, Illinois. April/May 2017.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Colleagues and Communities: Engaging Labor Across Intra-Institutional Digital Divides. Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. January 2017.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon and Stainforth, Elizabeth. All and Each: The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures. Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference. Montreal, Canada. June, 2016.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon and Velez, LaTesha. How green is your valley: investigating LAM+D e-waste policies to improve LIS environmental education. ALISE 2016. Boston, MA. January, 2016.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Mapping Significant Properties in OAIS: A case study with video games. ASIS&T Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. November, 2015.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon and Stainforth, Elizabeth. All and Each: Dialogues in the Digital Archive. Pararchive Conference, Leeds, UK. March, 2015
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Encoding Power: the Scripting of Archival Structures in Digital Spaces using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. ALISE Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition. January 2015.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Seeing the Unseen: The Politics and Privileges of Invisibility and Opacity in the Digital Archive. Digital Memories 5, Oxford, UK. September, 2014.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Memory and the Archive: New Media Systems of Assembly and Preservation. HASTAC, Lima, Peru. April, 2014.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. The Significance of Time and Place: Preserving Virtual Worlds and Carmen Sandiego. GSLIS Research Showcase, University of Illinois. March, 2013.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Games Grown Up: Gender and Shifting Identities in Game Development. National Communication Association, Orlando, FL. November 2012.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Presentation on open source cataloging tools for small, unaffiliated memory organizations (SUMOs). Illinois Summer Research Symposium, University of Illinois. August, 2011.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Presentation on land use and history in Sonora, Mexico.Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Conference, University of Iowa. July 2004.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Presentation on honor crimes and their cultural origins in the Middle East. CIC Conference, University of Minnesota. July 2003.
• Bettivia, Rhiannon. Presentation on adolescent girl culture and media studies. International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Montreal, Canada. 1997.

Workshop Leadership (Planned and Facilitated)

• Revising the University: Exploring Extra-textual Scholarship. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. April, 2015.
• On Arriving at the Digital: Describing Critical Paths into the Digital Humanities/Al llegar a lo digital: Describiendo senderos críticos en las Ciencias Sociales Digitales. HASTAC, Lima, Peru. April, 2014.

• Award for Service to Underrepresented Minority Students
  2015
  Educational Equity Programs, Graduate College, University of Illinois
• Boyd Rayward Doctoral Fellowship
  2015
  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Ernest J. Reece Fund for Library Research
  2014
  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Summer Pre-Doctoral Institute
  2011
  Educational Equity Programs, Graduate College, University of Illinois
• Finalist, NYU Reynolds Award
  2009
  Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
• Excellence in Research, Summer Research Opportunities Program, University of Illinois
  2003
  University of Illinois

• iPres 2021 Conference Bid Committee

  • Implemented minority inclusion program for the first time in the history of the conference

• Peer Reviewer, Museum & Society Journal
  Leicester, UK

  • Reviewed content for special issue

• Reviewer, IMLS National Digital Platform Initiative
  Washington, DC

  • Took part in panels and discussions covering past accomplishments and future directions for National Digital Platform funding initiatives; October 2017.

• Reviewer, Institute of Museum and Library Services
  Washington, DC

  • Reviewed grant proposals in the area of digital preservation

• Training and Certification for ISO 16363 Audits and ISO 16919 Auditor Standards
  2014
  Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Training Authorization Body, Ltd
• Semantic Web Databases for Cultural Heritage
  2017
  ResearchSpace, the British Museum, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, London, UK