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Head of Conservation and Treatment Development, The National Archives, UK
Head of ResearchSpace and Senior Curator (Egypt & Sudan), British Museum
Head of Conservation and Treatment Development, The National Archives, UK
Sonja Schwoll is Head of Conservation and Treatment Development in the Collection Care Department at The National Archives in London. Before working at TNA, Sonja owned an independent book conservation studio in London and has worked in both the private and public sectors in the UK and the US. She is accredited by Icon and a fellow of IIC. All her career she has engaged in advancing the profession. She taught book conservation over 10 years at Camberwell College of Arts and West Dean College. Sonja holds an MA in book conservation and an MA in Art History.
Head of ResearchSpace and Senior Curator (Egypt & Sudan), British Museum
Dominic Oldman is Head and Principal Investigator of the ResearchSpace project at the British Museum and a Senior Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with a focus on digital research methods and digital historiography. His research has been converted into the practical open source ResearchSpace system - a new type of contextualising knowledge base system promoting collaborative interdisciplinary research and allowing people to grow and synthesise knowledge that relates to and reveals different aspects of history and society. He is deputy co-chair of the CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) Special Interest Group and is currently a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, History Department.
Reader in Documentation, Ligatus, University of the Arts London
Athanasios Velios is Reader in Documentation at the University of the Arts London working on conservation documentation. He trained as a conservator in Greece (Technological Educational Institute of Athens) and completed his PhD in London (Royal College of Arts, 2002) on computer applications to conservation. He worked on the St. Catherine’s condition survey project designing the project databases and documentation forms. He developed the framework for the Language of Bindings Thesaurus. He was the webmaster for the International Institute for Conservation (2008-2017) where he redeveloped the Institute’s website. He established the Documentation Network of the Institute of Conservation in the UK. He worked as Data Architect for the Oxford Linked Open Data pilot (OXLOD, 2018). He has been contributing to the CIDOC-CRM SIG since 2014. Alongside Kristen St.John he co-led the Linked Conservation Data project: an AHRC-funded project to enable integration of conservation records.