Conferences, Consulting, Publishing and Training
for Cultural Heritage Professionals

About Us

Archives & Museum Informatics is a partnership of two respected leaders, researchers and theorists in museum and cultural informatics: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant.

Conferences

We founded several conferences – Museums and the Web [annual] and ICHIM [now ended] – on the belief that knowledge and best practices should be openly shared amongst colleagues. These became internationally known venues for information-sharing across a broad range of cultural professions, and attracted a diverse, vibrant group of managers, marketers, new media / technologists, curators, educators, and researchers.

Museums and the Web is ongoing. See museumsandtheweb.com.

Online Community

We established an online community of cultural heritage professionals, that has grown to thousands of members. Originally at conference.archimuse.com, you can now join the conversation at museumsandtheweb.com

Publications

Publications from Archives & Museum Informatics chronicled the development of interactive multimedia in museums and the impact of the Web on digital museums and libraries. Conference papers are catalogued and available online. Publications are available to order online. Many of our own papers are also available online.

Between 1987 and 1996 Archives and Museum Informatics published a quarterly newsletter. These are freely available online as PDF files. See the Index to issues.

Consulting

Our consulting services emphasize inter-institutional collaboration, strategic planning and standards-based solutions. We've specialized in organizational development, business model design, knowledge organization, requirements analysis, and multi-institutional projects. We also provide research services. Our international clientele has included archives, museums, libraries, cultural heritage networks, not-for-profits, businesses and governments.