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Angela T. Spinazze is an information architect, liaison, and bridge-builder between technology and cultural heritage communities.
Her work focuses on smart approaches to managing the vast quantities of information that museums, archives, and cultural heritage
organizations generate.
Angela began her career in the Annual Programs Department of The Art Institute of Chicago
where she produced direct mail campaigns, planned special events, and worked with volunteers. In 1991, her focus shifted to
the collections side of the museum where she was part of the first comprehensive physical inventory team, a project that also
included the design and development of the museum's first database of collections information. Angela managed the conversion
of the index card file (representing approximately 150,000 works of art) into electronic format and she helped develop the
application architecture and user interface.
From 1993-1997, Angela served as Director of Marketing for a leading
collections management systems developer. In this capacity, she managed all marketing and sales activities world-wide, co-developed
two Windows-based applications for collections information management, and facilitated implementation and training programs.
Angela
founded ATSPIN consulting in 1997. Since then, she and a network of independent professionals, has worked with institutions
worldwide on integrating technologies into the museum ecology to improve access to collections information for both staff
and public audiences. Angela has worked with a variety of institutions, both large and small including the Walker Art Center,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mystic Seaport, Québec Museum Consortium, Este Court Archive, University of Notre
Dame, Society of Architectural Historians, American Museum of the Moving Image, Haggerty Art Museum, and others.
Angela
led programming activities for the CIMI Consortium for several years. During that time she served as editor for several technical
user guides produced by the Consortium for the museum community; she led professional development seminars on topics such
as Dublin Core, digitization, and collection level description standards, and she ran the Handscape project that was among
the first studies to examine the effectiveness of mobile devices in museums.
In addition, Angela has written grants
for online collections access projects, mentored young professionals, and managed projects for institutions that include the
development of new policies for collections cataloguing, management, and related publishing efforts.
Angela is
an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches in the Museum Studies program.
Angela received
a Bachelors of Arts from Miami University in 1986 and a Masters of Arts in 19th-20th Century Art History, Theory and Criticism
from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1992.
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