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Bruce I. Ambacher, Visitng Professor
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College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
Room 4111G Hornbake Bldg, South Wing
College Park, MD 20742-4345
Office: Room 4111G
Telephone: (301) 405-2043
Fax: (301) 314-9145
E-Mail: bambache@umd.edu |
Research interests: Archives administration, electronic records, digital preservation, national and international digital standards.
Prior to joining CLIS in 2007 Bruce Ambacher spent 31 years at the National Archives and records Administration in a variety of positions relating to electronic records, digital preservation, standards and archival education. Major assignments included the FBI appraisal project, coordinating the preservation of the Iran-Contra (PROFS) and Clinton Administration electronic records; and one year as archival liaison to Lockheed Martin in the ERA competition. Other assignments included agency-wide metadata systems coordination, agency planning and policy evaluation, government-wide technology policy development and federal, national and international digital standards development. He also served as an instructor in the Modern Archives Institute 1984-2002 and as the Institute’s co-director in 1988-90.
His last assignment was Information technology specialist focusing on federal, national and international standards for digital file creation and preservation. Service included working on the NARA committee that endorsed DoD 5015.2; assisting the intelligence community in developing additional metadata for DoD 5015.2; serving as NARA’s member of the OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721) development team; and serving as NARA’s co-chair of the RLG-NARA working group that developed Trusted Digital Audit and Certification (2007).
Prior teaching experience includes Adjunct Instructor (archives) George Mason University 1984- 2006, the University of Maryland 2000-2006, and Assistant Professor (History), University of Texas at Arlington 1970–1976.
He is active in professional associations serving as president of both the National Archives Assembly and the Mid-Atlantic regional Archives Conference. He was elected to a three year term on the Society of American Archivists Executive Council, 2007-2010.
His 2003 publication, Thirty Years of Electronic records, won the Mid-Atlantic regional Archives Conference’s Arline Custer Award.
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