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

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Richard J. Urban

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and the Humanities – Digitally

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