MuseWeb organizes conferences, workshops, and seminars; publishes articles and monographs; and consults for cultural organizations worldwide. Each member of our team has decades of experience in the cultural and heritage informatics field.
Our goal is to provide professionals in archives, libraries, museums, and cultural and heritage informatics with timely and challenging opportunities for exchange and training, and to develop a written record of innovation in the field.
This peer reviewed selection of papers, represents the best and most innovative work being done in the field at this particular point in time. It is our hope that it inspiored you to reach hirgher and push your instatutiuon to do more.
Cherry, Rich: - Rich Cherry is the founder and managing partner at Museum Operations, a museum start-up, operations, technology, and construction management consultancy. Most recently, Rich was the deputy director of The Broad, an award-winning contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles. The Broad opened to rave reviews in 2015 and immediately joined the list of the100 most-attended art museums in the world. At the Broad, he was responsible for the museum's operations, including visitor services, collections management, information technology, finance, retail, security, human resources, marketing and communications, parking operations, and facilities. Prior to opening, Rich managed the planning, design, and construction of The Broad, its parking structure, and the adjacent outdoor plaza and streetscape. To design The Broad as an innovative visitor experience, Rich also initiated and implemented mobile ticketing and mobile retail systems, as well as a mobile audio app with contextually aware content. He also designed and implemented an award-winning program for visitor services floor staff utilizing a custom online learning management system to train a diverse team of associates in security, customer service, art, and architecture. Previously, Cherry was the founding director of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), a consortium of 27 cultural organizations working together to facilitate and execute the use of online technology in the museums, cultural arts, and science institutions in Balboa Park, San Diego. He also served as the director of operations at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where he oversaw information technology, operations, admissions, facilities, security, capital projects, and more than $90 million in ongoing construction; and, as the chief information officer, director of facilities, and head of library and archives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He was previously the chief information officer of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and has taught New Media Theory, Web Design, and Animation in the Media Studies department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Rich serves as co-chair for MuseWeb (formerly Museums and the Web), an international conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of museums in a digital world; he is also president of the MuseWeb Foundation, which he co-founded to accelerate innovation in cultural practice and business. He was vice chair of the Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission, a board member of the Culver City Cultural Affairs Foundation, and a project advisor on the National Science Foundation-funded Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance STEM Program. Before his museum career, Rich worked in technology in banking and manufacturing, and as a field service engineer. He was also a commercial diver in the Gulf of Mexico and served six years in the United States Marine Corps.
Proctor, Nancy: - Nancy Proctor is Director of The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture as well as Co-chair of the MuseWeb (formerly Museums and the Web) Conferences. Previously Nancy was Deputy Director of Digital Experience and Communications at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014-2016), Head of Mobile Strategy and Initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution (2010-2014), and Head of New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum (2008-2010). With a PhD in American art history and a background in filmmaking, curation and art criticism, Nancy lectures and publishes widely on technology and innovation in museums, in French and Italian as well as English. Nancy Proctor created her first online exhibition in 1995 and went on to publish the New Art CD-ROM and website of contemporary art in the UK in 1996. She co-founded TheGalleryChannel.com in 1998 with Titus Bicknell to present virtual tours of innovative exhibitions alongside comprehensive global museum and gallery listings. TheGalleryChannel was later acquired by Antenna Audio, where Nancy led New Product Development from 2000-2008, introducing the company's multimedia, sign language, downloadable, podcast and cellphone tours. She also directed Antenna's sales in France from 2006-2007, and worked with the Travel Channel's product development team. Nancy served as program chair for the Museums Computer Network (MCN) conference 2010-2011, and co-organized the Tate Handheld conference 2008 & 2010. She started MuseumMobile.info, its wiki and podcast series in 2008. She was Digital Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal from 2009-2014, and is now on the Journal's editorial board, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Omnimuseum Project.
