In 2022, Raman Ganguly and Hanna Schneck organized specialist training for librarians covering preventive data backup. This led them into several interesting discussions about the difficulties of delivering high quality standards of data management outside a university infrastructure. As a museum librarian, and within her own curatorial work, Hanna supports humanities professionals and cultural scientists in dealing with challenges of digitization and research data management. She works to raise awareness of the FAIR-principles of data management, and its importance to the everyday work of both museum researchers and collection managers. In her day-to-day work, Hanna is currently working on the challenges of implementing an in-house repository and establishing workflows for numerous digitization projects.
About Hanna Schneck:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-schneck-745768163/
ORCID-ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8058-8403
Studying Library and Information Science at HU Berlin, Hanna’s master thesis focused on the challenges of digital infrastructures for museum libraries. From 2012 to 2021 she went on to work as a librarian at both the museum Albertina and Photoinstitut Bonartes, in Vienna. Since then, Hanna has been serving as Library Director at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, with a special interest in modern library technologies and curation. Her current research focus on history of photography and book science lead to cross-disciplinary collaborations, such as catalogue publications and co-curation of the exhibitions “Foto.Buch.Kunst” (Albertina, 2019), Blitzlicht in der Unterwelt (Photoinstitut Bonartes and Stift Göttweig, 2020/2021) and Farbe in Schwarz-Weiß (KHM, 2022).
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