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Günter Waibel is a Program Officer for OCLC Research. He focuses on sharing, aggregating and disseminating cultural materials in a networked environment. Further areas of interest are the intersection of libraries, archives and museums, and the necessity for more collaborative approaches within and among different communities. He currently manages the Museum Data Exchange Project (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation), which creates tools and models behaviors for data sharing in the museum community.

Günter is a board member of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) and a past board member of the Association of American Museum’s (AAM) Media & Technology Committee. He recently co-authored the OCLC Research reports “Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums” and “An Art Resource in New York: The Collective Collection of the NYARC Art Museum Libraries”, as well as the article “Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums”. Günter currently blogs at hangingtogether.org. He teaches as adjunct faculty in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, New York.

Günter joined RLG at the beginning of 2003. In July 2006, he transitioned to OCLC Research following the combination of OCLC and RLG. Previously, he was Digital Media Developer at the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, where he worked closely with the California Digital Library (CDL) and the project Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC). He was also Webmaster for the Oakland Museum of California.