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.

David Green

Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning, Website for International Foundation for Art Research, Digital Rights Management and Ecommerce in Museums, KnowledgeCulture.com

David Green is Principal in Knowledge Culture, a consultancy offering research services and resources for cultural heritage professionals.

Jonathan Finkelstein

Jonathan. Finkelstein is the founder and Executive Producer of LearningTimes.org and the President of the LearningTimes Network. He has been designing and producing online conferences, communities, events and collaborative technologies for education for over ten years. He works closely with a wide range of educational institutions to grow and maintain online learning communities and to foster human interaction live online. Many of his online programs have been recognized with industry awards. Mr. Finkelstein's forthcoming book, Learning in Real Time (Jossey-Bass, 2006), translates his many years of experience facilitating live online learning into a resource guide for educators. Mr. Finkelstein is a Certified Synchronous Training Professional (CSTP), and received his AB degree with honors from Harvard University.