GMNet has involved many research student assistants. They include:

2006 to present - Cynthia Fisher (till May) on content editing and videos; general assistants on metadata preparation and content development include Suwathna Reel, Felicia Au, Amal Piracha, and Julie Wood.

2004 to 2005 - Peishan Tsai (supervising in 2005), Suwathna Reel, Kate Bissonnette, Cody DeSouza, Julia Fisher - on baseline relational database construction, metadata preparation and content development; Annie Cain - image preparation, scanning and processing. Former assistants left during this period include Roslyn Levy, Julka Grodel, Rachel Gould, Arlene Fredericks, Samloth Sreng, and Yan Yan Yii.

2000 to 2003 - Hua Wei on metadata preparation and content development specifically related to Emperor Project; and Alissa Miller on HTML-based Web page development for GMNet's Version 1.0.

In the second half of 2005, GMNet was fortunate to be able to have 7 visiting researchers from China, Croatia and Vietnam. These include Boris Badurina, University J. J. Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia; Zhang Hongxia, University of Hainan, China; Li Haiyan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Nguyen Thi Tuan Linh and Nguyen Thanh Son, Vietnam Museum Ethnology, Hanoi, Vietnam; Xiaobo Xiao, Xian Jiaotong University, China; and Shengqiang Zhang , University of Sichuan , Chengdu, China. Each has contributed greatly to GMNet by adding the invaluable and unique collection of each organization which he/she brought to Boston. This is an excellent example of the results international collaboration can produce. Collaboration with Boris Badurina continues to the present after his return to Croatia.