Carol A. Ellerbeck

information as infrastructure, metadata, ontologies, thesauri, data modeling, authority control, structured vs. unstructured information, information access and retrieval, information/knowledge mapping

Richard J. Urban

Museum studies, history, museum informatics, library science, information science, archival science

Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a graduate research assistant for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project and as project assistant for the Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata. Previously he worked with the ECHO DEPository Project. Prior to returning to his graduate studies, Richard served as the Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program (aka Colorado Digitization Project), which assisted libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations providing online access to their collections.