Sam Quigley is the Director of Digital Information and Technology at the Harvard University Art Museums, where he heads a major institutional initiative to digitize the wealth of research and scholarship activity at the Art Museums (the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Fogg Art Museum). In this position he has responsibility for a broad array of operations including network and desktop support, application development, collections information management and data standards, digital image production, archiving and licensing, as well as maintenance of the Art Museumâs web site www.artmuseums.harvard.edu.

Formerly, Curator of Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for about ten years, he switched roles in1995 to become Manager of Collections Information at that institution. In that capacity, he developed the museum-wide collections information database of 400,000 electronic object records. Designing efficient imaging work flow systems as well as publicly searchable database interfaces on the Web are presently the primary focus in his work. Quigley served briefly as Director of Collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000-2001 before he became employed at Harvard. In November 2003, he assumed the Presidency of the Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu.