About us

Dominic has worked in cultural heritage systems development for 25 years. He was Head of Systems Development at the British Museum, Deputy Head of Information Systems and led the British Museum’s Information Systems department before concentrating full time on the ResearchSpace project. During that time he managed teams of programmers, project managers/analysts and other specialist technical personnel working on a range of systems, from Human Resources, Finance, Points of Sale, Ticketing, and a range of Cultural Heritage systems including the British Museum’s Collection On-line system and Linked Data systems. He has published on strategic data integration and knowledge representation issues as lead author including, ‘Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years: A Manifesto for Data Provisioning & Aggregation Services for the Digital Humanities (A Position Paper)’ in D-Lib magazine and, ‘Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge’, in the New Companion to Digital Humanities, (Schreibman, Siemens, Unsworth). Dominic has researched and has extensive knowledge of the history of cultural heritage systems and integration projects from the late 1960s and has used different systems integration architectures including Service Orientated Architectures and currently Linked Data / ontology approaches. He is also a research student in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.

Diana is a computer scientist and a Senior Curator at the British Museum. She is co-Investigator of the ResearchSpace project, working on the development of the platform and the implementation of research systems for archaeology, anthropology and art history. Her research expertise is situated in the domain of artificial intelligence in particular knowledge representation of expert domains. She previously taught at the School of Design, Royal College of Art (2005-2017) and University of Westminster (2004-2012) running workshops and courses that ranged from mathematics fundamentals, programming, to social and Semantic Web languages and technologies. Some of her other projects include development work on the AHRC funded Late Hokusai Project, the Webby Award winner, Computational Science Education Reference Desk, and a number of web-based collaborative tools for teaching.

Artem is a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies with a strong focus on the development of Cultural Heritage systems. He was the lead programmer in a successful Semantic Web start up company before joining the British Museum team to work on the ResearchSpace system. He has designed and developed many Semantic Web components related to different humanities use cases and has an expert knowledge of Linked Data application architectures and Linked Data databases. He has extensive experience of working with the CIDOC-CRM and other cultural heritage ontologies, developing a strong understanding of underlying CH processes across different disciplinary areas. He specialises in producing Semantic Web applications that are accessible to non-technical users, and is a strong advocate of open source community systems.

Cristina is a Conservation Scientist with applied knowledge in the development of Information Technology for Cultural Heritage. She joined the ResearchSpace team in 2018, working on the development, design and implementation of the platform. She previously worked at the INFN Physics Department in Florence and the ENEA Research Centre in Rome, developing expertise in the synthesis of nanocomposites for conservative treatment of artistic stones and non-invasive analysis of paintings, such as PIXE, PIGE, SEM, Ionoluminescence, Laser Induced Fluorescence, scanning IR Reflectography and Multispectral Imaging. In 2013 she obtained a Master of Science Unesco in Open Source Technologies for Cultural Heritage, developing new skills in database development, GIS, web programming and specialising in 3D Photogrammetry Image-Based Modeling survey, 3D model visualisation and integration with imaging diagnostic researches. Before joining the ResearchSpace project she has been an IPERION-CH research fellow in the Scientific dept of the National Gallery in London, mainly working on digital documentation for the construction of a database of ground layers in paintings as an open access research resource.