Rob Lancefield

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Rob Lancefield is Manager of Museum Information Services and Registrar of Collections at Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center in Connecticut. He is a former president of the Museum Computer Network (MCN), the membership organization for museum information professionals. Rob's Musematic-related interests include metadata and web standards, collections information sharing, interaction design, information architecture, new media, and digital preservation. His blog XMacL (2000-2003) reported on XML tools for Mac users at a time when such resources could be hard to find. Rob's PhD dissertation in ethnomusicology considered intersections of performance, the body, racial ideology, and intercultural aesthetic experience. He curated a traveling exhibition, "Performing Images, Embodying Race," on related aspects of U.S. visual culture. In earlier work, he explored the ways in which the repatriation of recorded sound from archives can connect histories of collecting, cultural repositories, and heritage communities. In what seems a past life, Rob was a professional musician performing Ghanaian music and jazz. Now he often wonders why he spends so much time with computers and so little with guitars....

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Can’t get to MCN 2009? Check out some webcasts.

We’re pleased to announce that five MCN 2009 sessions will be webcast live, free of charge. MCN 2009 takes place week after next in Portland, Oregon. While we urge everyone who is interested to register and attend the conference in person as the only way to engage with its full array of workshops, sessions, events, [...]

MCN 2008: good goings-on in Washington, DC

As many of you know because you were there making it happen, the Museum Computer Network (MCN) held its 36th annual conference in Washington, DC, from November 12 through 15. MCN provides continuing opportunities to explore and disseminate new technologies and best practices in museum information work. This year’s conference theme was “Let’s Do I.T. [...]