Susan Chun is a researcher and consultant to cultural heritage organizations specializing in publishing; intellectual property policy and open content initiatives; cataloguing, information management, and visualization; advanced search strategies; and multilingual content development and management. She leads several multi-institutional research and development projects in the museum and library community: she is a co-founder and project lead for Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project, a collaboration of museums and information professionals investigating the potential of social tagging to enhance access to museum collections and engage visitors, and program director for Project Audience, a Mellon Foundation-funded consortium whose purpose is to develop collaborative, affordable, sustainable technologies to encourage involvement in the arts and cultural programs. She is an instructor in cataloguing theory and practice in the graduate museum studies programs at the Universita della Svizzerà Italiana and Johns Hopkins University and researches, writes, teaches, and lectures regularly on museum publishing, intellectual property policy, open content initiatives, information management and cataloguing strategy, search and access, and social software. Until 2007, Susan was General Manager for Collections Information Planning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also been employed at the Asia Society, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Alfred A. Knopf.
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Session topic: Scholarship in the Digital Age
Presentation: "Teaching Art Historians to Think Vis"
Email: [email protected]
Session topic: Scholarship in the Digital Age
Presentation: "Teaching Art Historians to Think Vis"