Articles & Letters

“Putting the Wagon Before the Horse: Implementing CCO in Gallery System’s TMS” (2011).


“CCO as a Metadata Standard for the Retrieval of Museum Cataloging Records: A Critical Review” (2011). Both of these articles were accepted for publication by the Visual Resources Association for a special issue on CCO, a new published standard for Cataloging Cultural Objects, but the journal ceased publishing for a while in 2011. I put the articles on Academia.edu and other Open Access platforms where they were downloaded by museum professionals around the world.

MFAH TMS Data Standards Manual (2011). Wrote the Data Standards manual for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This manual was an attempt to reach a consensus in curatorial practice, introduce CCO standards to the Museum of Fine Arts departments, and implement data standards which would allow for greater consistency and discoverability of museum objects. 

“Teaching the Techie: The Search for Intelligent Instruction in a Cramped Universe.” Texas Technology (March 2001).

“Religion in the Academy (First Things, 1994). An excerpt of a letter to Dr. George Marsden, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, written while I was a graduate student at Indiana University. He submitted the letter for publication to First Things, which resulted in my being interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1997, this letter and my experience was discussed in the book, Religious Advocacy and American History.