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Diane Zorich

Director, Digitization Program Office

Diane Zorich is Director of the Digitization Program Office at the Smithsonian Institution, where she leads an expert team in digitizing Smithsonian collections to maximize their impact for the public. She oversees collections digitization, 3D digitization, and digitization assessment activities that develop and improve digitization processes across the Institution. Through partnerships and collaborations, she and her team ensure that digitized Smithsonian collections can be used with existing and emerging technologies to enable creativity, learning, insight, and innovation. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, Diane worked as a cultural heritage consultant specializing in the digitization and delivery of cultural heritage online. She also served as data manager for the Association of Systematics Collections in Washington, D.C., and documentation manager at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She has graduate degrees in anthropology and museum studies, and has published extensively on digitization, digital humanities centers, library/archives/museum collaboration, museum information policy, and intellectual property policy in the cultural heritage sector (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-4207 ). Diane hails from Chicago (with stops along the way in New York City, Boston, San Diego, and Princeton.)

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