Richard J. Urban, Ph.D.
richardjurban@gmail.com
http://richardjurban.net
Professional Experience
Senior Program & Engagement Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership, 2022 - present
Digital Asset Manager & Strategist, Corning Museum of Glass, 2016 - 2022
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, December 2012–2016
Graduate Research Assistant. IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project, 2007 – 2009
Project Coordinator, Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata, University of Illinois Library, 2006 - 2009
Graduate Assistant, Illinois Digitization Institute, University of Illinois Library, 2005 – 2006
Graduate Research Assistant, ECHO Depository Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005 - 2006
Operations Coordinator, Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, CO, 2002 - 2005
Web Site Coordinator, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2000 - 2002
Assistant Curator, Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, 1997 - 2000
Library Technician, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C., 1993 – 1995
Selected Publications
Urban, R. J. (2016). Collections Cubed: Into the Third Dimension. Museums and the Web 2016, Museums and the Web. Paper | Slides
Garcia, M. M., Messner, K., Urban, R. J., Tripodis, S., Hancock, M. E., & Colegrove, T. (2014). 3D Technologies: New tools for information scientists to engage, educate and empower communities. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51(1), 1–5. Slides
Lee, D. J., Witt, M., Urban, R.J., & Plale, B. (2014). A Metadata Application Profile for ORCID. Presented at the 4th Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, September 22-25, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Paper
Urban, R. J., Coleman, L.-E., & Marty, P. F. (2014). Libraries, archives, and museums: Connecting educational communities and cultures. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51(1), 1–3.
Urban, R.J. (2014) The Dublin Core 1:1 Principle in the Age of Linked Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Austin, TX, October 8 – 11, 2014.Paper | Slides
Urban, R. J. (2013). Representation patterns for cultural heritage resources. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(1), 1–4. doi:10.1002/meet.14505001123 Open Access: DigiNole
Urban, R.J, Adamcyck, P., & Twidale, M.B. (2010). Designing and Developing a Collections Dashboard. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. Toronto: CA Archives & Museum Informatics. Paper | Slides
Renear, A.H., Wickett, K.M., Urban, R.J., Dubin, D., & Shreeves, S.L. (2008). Collection/Item Metadata Relationships. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Berlin, Germany, September 22-26, 2008. Paper
Urban, R., Marty, P. & Twidale, M. (2007). A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds_.). Proceedings of the Museums and the Web: Toronto, CA: Archives & Museum Informatics. Paper
Bailey-Hainer, B. & Urban, R. (2004). The Colorado Digitization Program: a collaboration success story. Library Hi Tech, 22, 254-262. Paper
Selected Teaching
University of Illinois, School of Information Sciences
- IS426 Museum Informatics
Florida State University, School of Information
- LIS4351 User Experience Design
- LIS5275 Usability Analysis
- LIS5590 Museum Informatic
- LIS5703 Information Organization
- LIS5786 Information Architecture
Community Collaborations
- President, Corning-Painted Post Middle School Parent Teacher Association
- President, Frederick Carder Elementary Parent Teacher Association
- Trustee, Southern Tier Library System
- Member, NISO Accessibility Remediation Metadata working group
- Member, International Standardized Rights Statements Working Group (2014-2016) http://rightsstatements.org
- Consultant, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA Metadata Application Profile 3.0 (2013)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant Review Panel (2004, 2009, 2010)
- NEH/IMLS Digital Initiatives Grant Review Panel (2007)
- NISO Standards Committee. Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Still Images (2004-2005)
- Museum Computer Network (Board Member 2004-2010)
Education
PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA History with Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Delaware
BA History with Honors, Pennsylvania State University