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 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….