Autor: Jonathan P. Bowen

​ Tula Giannini is a Professor in the School of Information at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA. She was formerly Dean of the School during 2014–2017. At Pratt, she has initiated and managed several successful collaborative digitization projects with leading New York City museums, libraries, and related cultural institutions, supported by the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and other funding agencies. She has also established a Master of Science (MS) in Museums and Digital Culture. She has co-organized the EVA London Symposium, associated with the annual EVA London Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts since 2016. She co-edited the 2019 book Museums and Digital Culture in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Professor Giannini has an interest in musicology and has contributed entries in The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, published by Oxford University Press. Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is an Emeritus Professor of Computing at London South Bank University in London, UK, an Adjunct Professor at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, and Chair of Museophile Limited, a UK consultancy company in the field of museums and IT. In 1994, he founded the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), part of the WWW Virtual Library, later adopted by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). He was invited to be the Honorary Chair of the first Museums and the Web conference in 1997 and was a regular contributor subsequently. More recently he has been co-chair of the annual EVA London Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. In 2013. he was a co-editor of Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture, published in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. In 2017, he co-authored The Turing Guide, on the life and work of the computing pioneer Alan Turing, published by Oxford University Press and, in 2019, he co-edited Museums and Digital Culture, again in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Professor Bowen is a Life Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and an Emeritus Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT).