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David Rumsey
David Rumsey
An Evening with David Rumsey
Friday, March 2, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Bishop Dunne Catholic High School
$25.00
Keynote
Saturday, March 3, 8:45 – 10:00 A.M.
Bishop Dunne Catholic High School
Biography
David Rumsey is President of Cartography
Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and
is a director of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for
online image collections. He was a founding member of Yale Research
Associates in the Arts, a group of artists working with electronic
technologies. He subsequently became Associate Director of the American
Society for Eastern Arts in San Francisco. Later, he entered a 20 year
career in real estate development and finance during which he had a
long association with the General Atlantic Holding Company of New York
and served as President and Director of several of its real estate
subsidiaries; General Atlantic eventually became the Atlantic Trust,
a Bermuda based philanthropic foundation that is one of the world’s
largest charities. Rumsey retired from real estate in 1995 and founded
Cartography Associates, beginning a third career as a digital publisher,
online library builder, and software entrepreneur.
David Rumsey began building a collection of North and South American
historical maps and related cartographic materials in 1980. His collection,
with more than 150,000 maps, is one of the largest private map collections
in the United States. In 1995, Rumsey began the task of making his collection
public by building the online David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
(www.davidrumsey.com). Currently the online collection has over 10,000
high resolution images of maps from his collection. The site is free
to the public and is updated monthly. In 2002, Rumsey was given an Honors
Award from the Special Libraries Association for making his private map
collection available to the public via the Internet. In the same year
the site won a Webby Award for Technical Achievement.
Rumsey received his BA and MFA from Yale University where he was a lecturer
in art at the Yale Art School for several years. He serves on the boards
of the John Carter Brown Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the
Long Now Foundation, the Stanford University Library Advisory Board,
and is a trustee of Yale Library Associates and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Rumsey has lectured widely regarding his online library work and has
contributed to several publications on cartography and the advent of
GIS. ESRI Press recently published his new book, Cartographica Extraordinaire.
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