Conferences, Consulting, Publishing and Training
for Cultural Heritage Professionals

About Us

Archives & Museum Informatics is a partnership of David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, both respected researchers and theorists in museum informatics specifically, and cultural informatics more broadly.

Conferences

Our conferences – Museums and the Web and ICHIM – are internationally respected venues for information-sharing across a broad range of cultural heritage professions.

On-line Community

We host a 1300+ member on-line community of cultural heritage professionals: conference.archimuse.com Join Us!

Publications

Publications from Archives & Musum Informatics chronicle the development of interactive multimedia in museums and the impact of the Web on digital museums and libraries. Papers are catalogued and available on-line. Publications are available to order on-line. Many of our own papers are also available on-line.

Consulting

Our consulting services emphasize inter-institutional collaboration, strategic planning and standards-based solutions. We specialize in organizational development, business model design, knowledge organization, requirements analysis, multi-institutional projects, and electronic records management. We also provide research services.

Our international clientele includes archives, museums, libraries, cultural heritage networks, not-for-profits, businesses and governments.

Seminars and Workshops

We offer seminars and workshops on the strategic use of technology in culture and heritage, virtual libraries and archives, multimedia and interactive publishing, intellectual property management, the management of electronic records as evidence, and standards for the production and dissemination of electronic information. Seminars in Cultural Informatics on Grindstone Island are given by leading international experts. Other formats, times and locations can be arranged to suit your needs.