Richard J. Urban, Ph.D.
richardjurban@gmail.com
http://richardjurban.net
Professional Experience
Digital Asset Manager & Strategist, Corning Museum of Glass December 2016-present
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, December 2012–2016
Graduate Research Assistant. IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project, September 2007 – 2009
Project Coordinator, Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata, University of Illinois Library, September 2006- February 2009
Graduate Assistant, Illinois Digitization Institute, University of Illinois Library, October 2005 – August 2006
Graduate Research Assistant, ECHO Depository Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2005-August 2006
Operations Coordinator, Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, CO, March 2002-June 2005
Web Site Coordinator, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 2000- March 2002
Assistant Curator, Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, May 1997- March 2000
Library Technician, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. , November 1993 – June 1995
Junior Fellow, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C., June 1993 – August 1993
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
Florida State University, School of Information (2012 – present)
– LIS4351 User Experience Design (2015)
– LIS5275 Usability Analysis (2014 – 2015)
– LIS5590 Museum Informatics (2012 – 2015)
– LIS5703 Information Organization (2012, 2014, 2016)
– LIS5786 Information Architecture (2013 – 2016)
Community Collaborations
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, May 2012
MS Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2006
MA History with Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Delaware, May 1997
BA History with Honors, Pennsylvania State University, May 1993