Curated Conversations Presents: Museums and Digital Asset Management
Description
Join Alexandra Kron-Daleo, digital curation expert and lecturer in the Johns Hopkins MA in Museum Studies program, as she welcomes Nelly Cancilla, digital asset manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts, for a deep dive into the world of stewarding digital assets while improving user experience across the museum field. Whether you are an expert in managing digital assets or only now shifting from a card catalog, this Curated Conversation will enlighten, inform, and spark curiosity.
About the speakers
Alexandra Kron-Daleo, who holds her MA in Museum Studies and a certificate in digital curation from Johns Hopkins, completed her digital curation internship at the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), a nonprofit tech consultancy in San Diego, California. There she researched how cultural institutions in Balboa Park were leveraging accessibility and the monetization of their digital assets and transitioned into a full-time position at BPOC, working with cultural institutions to develop digital strategies, data governance, and digital preservation plans. She also worked to support the implementation of collections management, content management, and digital asset management systems and provide recommendations for system and process improvement. Kron-Daleo now works as the community manager for Terentia, a platform for digital asset and collection management, where she develops and facilitates educational resources and learning opportunities for the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums community. She joined Johns Hopkins as a digital preservation instructor in Spring 2022.
As the digital asset manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Nelly Cancilla provides oversight of the DIA's digital asset management software, trains stakeholders, manages governance, and supports staff enterprise-wide. Cancilla holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Oakland University and a Master of Information from the University of Toronto. In addition to their experience in digital asset management, they have held positions as scholarly communications and copyright librarian, communications librarian, and digital scholarship and liaison librarian, with specializations in copyright, scholarly publishing, and instruction.
Free Admission February
In honor of Black History Month, Homewood Museum welcomes all visitors, free of charge, during the month of February. Visitors can tour the house's period rooms and learn about the struggles, contributions, resistance, and resilience of Homewood's first Black residents, including William Ross, Charity Castle, and Izadod Conner.
Who can attend?
- General public
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students