CURRICULUM VITAE

David Aaron Bearman

www.archimuse.com

CAREER

1986-	Partner/President, Archives & Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh & Toronto
1997-2004	Director, Strategy, Research & Development, Art Museum Image Consortium Inc.
1982-86	Deputy Director/Assistant Director/Head of Policy & Planning, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Information Resource Management
1980-82	Director, National Information Systems Task Force Society of American Archivists, Chicago IL
1975-79	Director, Survey of Sources, American Philosophical Society and The American Academy of Arts & Sciences
1971-73	Director/Educational Director/Teacher Various Early Childhood Education Programs, Philadelphia

CONSULTING

(select list of non-profits) American Antiquarian Society, American College of Physicians, Australian Archives, Australian Collections Heritage Working Group, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Chicago Historical Society, Computer Museum, Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the Arts Australia, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Foundation for the Hellenic World, Imperial War Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Knowledge Conservancy Metropolitan Toronto Archives, National Archives of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, National Security Archive, New York State Historical Association, Old Sturbridge Village, Phillips Collection, Powerhouse Museum, Research Libraries Group, Riksarkivet Sweden, Schweizerische Bundesarchiv, Singapore National Computer Board, Syracuse University, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, The Netherlands Ministry of Interior and Rijksarchief, United Nations, World Bank

EDUCATION

1967-71	Brown University, A.B. (Honors, Intellectual History)
1975-79	University of Pennsylvania, History & Sociology of Science, M.A
2004-	University of Toronto, PhD candidate

FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS

1971: Francis Wayland Scholar, Brown University

1973-74: Samuel Arnold Fellowship, Thomas J. Watson Foundation

1978: Rockefeller University Research Grant

1980: Honorary Associate, University of London

1985: Fellow, Society of American Archivists

1986, 1990: NEH/Mellon Fellowship, University of Michigan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ROLES

• Co-Chair, International Conference on Museums & the Web
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
• Member, Editorial Board, Tendencias

PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Teaching:

• Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 2003-2004
• Adjunct Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1989-1995

Editorial

• Editor-in-Chief, Archives and Museum Informatics 1986-1997
• Member, Editorial Board, Visual Resources (1992-1998)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Visualizations in Print, Academic Press (1995-96)
• Member, Editorial Board, Library Hi Tech (1989-1992)
• Member, Editorial Board, Primary Sources and Original Works (1990-92)
• Member, Advisory Board, Drexel Univ. School of Information Studies (1989-91)

Conference Boards

• Chair, International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums
• (ICHIM'91, Pittsburgh, 1991); Co-Chair (ICHIM'93 Cambridge UK 1993);
• Co-Chair (ICHIM '95), San Diego California, 1995, Chairman, Paris 1997, Chairman, Washington DC 1999, co-chair, Milan 2001, co-chair, Paris 2003, English Program Chair, Berlin 2004, ICHIM05 Paris
• Co-Chair, Museums and the Web: An International Conference; Los Angeles 1997; Toronto
• 1998; New Orleans 1999, Minneapolis 2000, Seattle 2001, Boston 2002, Charlotte 2003, Washington DC 2004, Vancouver 2005, Albuquerque 2006, San Francisco 2007
• Chair, Annual Conference, Museum Computer Network (1988), Co-Chair, Annual
• Conference 1995
• Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Democracy Conferences, (1992-4)
• Professional Association Roles
• Member, Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network (1987-89); (1990-92);
• Board President (1988-89); Founding Chairman, Committee on Computer Interchange of
• Museum Information (1990-92); Chairman, Publications Committee (1992)
• Chairman, Joint HSS/SHOT/SAA Committee on Archives of Science and Technology
• (JCAST), 1979-80 and Member, 1978-82
• Member, SAA National Information Systems Task Force (1976-80); Director (1980-82)
• Member, SAA Electronic Records Task Force, 1995-96
• Chairman, ASIS Arts & Humanities Special Interest Group (1988-89); Liaison,
• ASIS-SAA and SAA-ASIS (1980-84)
• Founding Chairman of Jury, Interactive Multimedia Category, MUSE Awards
• Competition, American Association of Museums 1993; Member of Jury 1994
• Member, National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Computer Science &
• Technology, Planning Committee for the Annual Technology Forecast (1984-85)
• Member, Federal Interagency Committee on Information Resource Management (1982-86)

Other:

• Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (1998-2000)
• Member, Advisory Committee, Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (1994-1997)
• Member, Advisory Board of the American Arts and Letters Network (1995-1997)

International Speaking Engagements through 2005

• Keynote Speaker, UNESCO Conference “Preserving the Digital Heritage”, Den Haag November 2005
• Session chair, ICHIM05, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris September 2005
• Invited Speaker, Section Rapporteur, UNESCO Conference: “Between two phases of the World Summit on Information Society”, St.Petersburg, Russia May 2005
• Invited Speaker – EU Conference on Strategies for a European Area of Digital Cultural Resources, Den Hague Netherlands September 2004
• Keynote Speaker – Symposium on Cultural Databases, Tokyo and Fukuoko Japan, October 2003
• Speaker and co-chair, ICHIM03 L’Ecole du Louvre, Paris September 2003
• Invited Speaker, Dokumentation, Information & Kultur Association, Stockholm Sweden May 2002
• (http://konf.abm.uu.se/bearman/inst.pdf)
• Invited Speaker, Nobel Symposium on Virtual Museums and the Public Understanding of Science
• and Culture, Stockholm, May 2002
• Invited Speaker, ARCO, Madrid February 2002
• Invited Speaker, OCLC Webcast Symposium on Reconceptualizing Cataloging, Jan 2002
• Invited Keynote, Archives PhD Forum, Beijing China, November 2001
• Invited Speaker, Conference on Electronic Records in Office Automation Systems , Hangzhou
• China November 2001
• Program Chair, ichim01, Milan Italy September 2001
• Invited Speaker, Digital Research in the Humanities, Sheffield UK, September 2000
• Invited Speaker, CIDOC International Council of Museums, London UK (1999)
• Invited Speaker, Museums, heritage and digital revolution, Czech Ministry of Culture, Prague,
• Czech Republic (1999)
• Invited Speaker, Accesso Multimedia ao Patrimonio Cultural, Porto, Portgual (1999)
• Invited Speaker, International Congress on Museums, Melbourne Australia (1998)
• Invited Speaker, CERN, Berne & Geneva, Switzerland (1998)
• Invited Lecturer, Refiguring the Archive Seminars, Univ. of Witwatersrand, South Africa (1998)
• Invited Speaker, U.K.Office of Library Networking Conference, Bath UK (1998)
• Chair, Museums and the Web, Toronto, Canada (1998)
• Invited Speaker, CIDOC Bonn, Germany (1997)
• Invited Participant, Dublin Core Metadata Workshop, Helsinki, Finland (1997)
• Workshop Instructor, Public Records Office, London, UK (1997)
• Chair, ICHIM Conference, Paris, France (1997)
• Invited Speaker, Milan, Italy (1997)
• Named Lecture, University of Toronto, Canada (1997)
• Invited Speaker, ICA Congress, Beijing, China (1996)
• Workshop Instructor, The Records Continuum, Melbourne and Canberra (1996)
• Invited Speaker, Electronic Democracy Conference, Ottawa (1996)
• Invited Speaker, Electronic Visual Arts Conference, Florence (1996)
• Invited Speaker, Digital Knowledge, Toronto (1996)
• Keynote Speaker, Museum Documentation Association, Edinburgh (1995)
• Co-Chair, International Conference on Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums, (1995)
• Invited Speaker, Tenth International Congress of the Association of History and Computing,
• Montreal (1995)
• Invited Speaker, International Council on Museums Conference, Stavanger Norway (1995)
• Invited Speaker, Museum Computer Group Annual Conference, London (1995)
• Invited Speaker, Conference on Museums & the Internet, London (1995)
• Invited Speaker, Heritage Collections Committee National Database Seminar, Perth (1994)
• Invited Speaker, Playing for Keeps Conference, Canberra (1994)
• Invited Speaker, Lambrakis Research Foundation/Greek Ministry of Industry PROMETHEUS
• Conference, Athens (1994)
• Invited Speaker, Portuguese Association for Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists, Lisbon
• (1994)
• Co-Chair, International Conference on Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums, Cambridge, UK
• (1993)
• Plenary Speaker, Australian Society of Archivists, Melboune (1993)
• Keynote Speaker, Ontario Archives Association, Ottawa (1993)
• Invited Speaker, "actif et interactif", Paris (1993)
• Keynote Speaker, Electronic Democracy Conference, Ottawa (1992)
• Invited Speaker, Portuguese Association for History and Computing, Lisbon (1992)
• Keynote Speaker/Workshop Presenter, Seminar on Public Sector Records Management
• Sydney (1992)
• Public Lecturer sponsored by Singapore National Computer Board as part of the
• "Intelligent Island" Lecture Series, Singapore (1991)
• Keynote Speaker, Australian Society of Archivists, Sydney (1991)
• Chair, International Conference on Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museums, Pittsburgh (1991)
• Invited Speaker, Symposium on Office Automation, Archivschule Marburg, Germany (1991)
• Invited Expert, Impact of Information Technology on Archival Theory and Practice,
• Macerata Italy (1991)
• Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Archives and Europe without Boundaries,
• Maastricht Holland (1991)
• Invited Speaker, International Conference on Documents that Move and Speak, Ottawa (1990)
• Invited Speaker, Converging Disciplines in the Management of Recorded Information, Ottawa
• (1989)
• Invited Expert, International Meeting of Experts on Archival Description Standards, Ottawa
• (1988)
• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Museum Terminology Control,
• Cambridge England (1988)
• Chairman, Symposium on Archives of Science, International Conference on History of Science,
• Edinburgh (1977)

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