Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   As a Graduate Research Assistant for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project, Richard participates in research on metadata, knowledge representation, and human-computer interaction for cultural heritage collections. His research interests in online library, archive and museum collections is informed by experience at the Collaborative Digitization Program, Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Historical Society of Delaware.