Background
Besser, Howard was born on July 17, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Besser, Howard was born on July 17, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1976; Master of Library Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1988.
He is Professor of Cinema Studies and the founding director of the New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program ("MIAP"), a graduate program in the Tisch School. Besser is a prolific writer and speaker, and has consulted with scores of governments, educational institutions, and arts agencies on digital preservation matters. He was closely involved in development of the Dublin Core and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), international standards within librarianship.
Besser grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and earned a Bachelor"s degree in 1976 from the University of California, Berkeley.
He studied film in Paris at the Centre Internationale d"Études des Cinema. He earned a Master"s and Doctor of Philosophy in Library Science in 1977 and 1988 respectively, both from University of California Berkeley.
Besser was on the faculty of University of California Berkeley"s School of Information for a number of years, before accepting a position as professor at University of California, Los Angeles"s School of Education and Information Studies. He retired from University of California, Los Angeles, becoming a Professor Emeritas there, in order to found the MIAP program at New York University in 2004.
He also taught at the University of Michigan"s School of Information and at the University of Pittsburgh.
Besser is well known for his habit of wearing only t-shirts, and for maintaining a t-shirt database. A number of his classes used the t-shirt database as a cataloging and metadata practicum, cataloging t-shirts into the database with appropriate metadata.
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Member American Association Museum, International Standards Organization, Coalition for Networked Information, Clearinghouse for Museum Information (board directors), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, American Society for Information Science, American Library Association, Museum Computer Network.