#14 Chester Beatty Library: digital solutions to improve access to museums

During a study tour in Dublin I had the chance to visit the
Chester Beatty Library and have a talk with Tim Keefe – Head of
Digital. We talked about using digital solutions to improve
access to and experience of the Museum.


Tim Keefe is the Head of Digital for the Chester Beatty Museum in
Dublin Ireland. This new department is responsible for ongoing
digitisation of the museum’s collections and their open access
dissemination through new web based infrastructure. Tim is also
responsible for the development and implementation of the museums
long term digital strategy and vision.


In addition to this role Tim is the
Director of Finance and non-executive board member of the Digital
Preservation
Coalition, and is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate
programme for the
school of Information and Communication Studies at University
College Dublin.


Prior to this position Tim worked as the Head
of the Digital Resources and Imaging Services at Trinity College
Dublin. This
department was dedicated to the development of digital library
resources from
the university’s special collections and archives.


Tim also worked as a Research Scientist at the Eastman Kodak
Corporation in the Research and Development Division as a member
of a new product development and innovation laboratory, as well
as in the Kodak Professional Digital Capture Group supporting the
development of innovative new professional digital capture
products.


https://chesterbeatty.ie/