Cristina Pattuelli

Cristina is a Professor at the School of Information (SI) at Pratt Institute in New York, where she teaches courses on Knowledge Organization, Art Documentation, and Artists’ Archives. She is the founder of the Linked Jazz Project and founder and co-director of the  Semantic Lab.

A frequent consultant to libraries, archives, and museums, her research explores the intersection between cultural heritage and information access, description and design. Her work in the domains of arts and humanities, knowledge representation, and linked open data includes collaborations with the Weeksville Heritage Center,  I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 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.

Cristina 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. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage from 2016-2018 and, in 2025, received a CTL Faculty Fellowship from the Pratt Center for Teaching and Learning to design a cross-disciplinary graduate course centered on Venice’s art and architecture, and memory institutions, including museums, libraries, and archives.

• 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