Dr. Christine Madsen works at the intersection of cultural organizations and technology. She is expert in building large-scale systems, teams, and services that use technology to connect researchers, teachers, and students with digital research data. She works to understand and build the knowledge organizations of the future–occasionally taking inspiration from those of the past.
Before creating an international consulting firm, Christine was the Head of Digital Programmes at the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), where she was the visionary behind the digital.bodleian project, a completely new, sustainable and scalable architecture for delivering Oxford’s diverse and unique collections online. Prior to that, she led the Open Collections Program (OCP) at Harvard University Library, where she created cross-departmental, collaborative workflows and scaled OCP from a project to a department. During her time at Oxford, Christine worked with diverse stakeholders across the many libraries, faculties, divisions, and museums to strategize and build coherent solutions for the evolving needs of the University. In addition to leading the development of the Strategic Plan for the Bodleian Libraries, she helped to write and implement a Digital Humanities Strategy for the University and a vision for a unified, sustainable ‘Digital Oxford’ which will provide seamless digital research support across all faculties and collections. Christine earned her DPhil from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), where she performed one of the first large-scale ethnographic studies of an entire discipline to understand its relationship to digital technology and the library.
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