Cristina Pattuelli

Cristina is a Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Information in New York, where she teaches courses on Knowledge Organization, Art Documentation, and Artists’ Archives. She currently serves as the Teaching and Curriculum Lead of the Pratt SI Museums and Digital Culture MS Program and was the Coordinator of the program from 2017 to 2020. Cristina’s research explores the intersection of cultural heritage, information representation, and access with a focus on semantic technologies and linked open data. She is the founder of the Linked Jazz Project and the founder and co-director of the Semantic Lab at Pratt, a collective of researchers, students, and practitioners exploring new forms and functions of semantic technologies for archives, libraries, and museums. She has written extensively on knowledge organization and semantic technologies in cultural heritage, receiving recognition for her contributions, including the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research.

• Ph.D. Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Laurea degree in Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
• Laurea degree in Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy
• Degree in Archival Science, Paleography and Diplomatics, State Archives School, Bologna, Italy