Susan Chun

Current

Principal at Susan Chun, Cultural Heritage Consulting
Founder and Project Lead at Steve.Museum

Past

General Manager for Collection Information Planning; Senior Editor for New Media at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publications Manager at Asia Society
Senior Production Manager at Alfred A. Knopf

Production Manager at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Editorial and Production Assistant at Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Education

Bryn Mawr College
Punahou School

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Industry

Museums and Institutions

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Susan Chun’s Summary

Susan Chun consults with cultural heritage organizations on information management and intellectual property strategy and policy. Her clients include museums, libraries, universities, museum and academic consortia, and funders. She is a founder of Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project, and currently serves as Project Lead and co-Principal Investigator for the project's current grant, awarded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the New Media Consortium. She is an instructor in the museum studies programs at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and Johns Hopkins University. She writes, teaches, and lectures regularly on museum publishing, intellectual property policy, open content initiatives, information management and cataloguing strategy, and social software.

From 1998-2007 and 1989-94, Susan was employed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, most recently as General Manager for Collections Information Planning. In this capacity, she was responsible for formulating institutional strategy and for developing and managing projects involving intellectual property, asset management and archiving, digital imaging and licensing, publishing, and standards. Prior to that, Susan was Senior Editor for New Media and Marketing Manager in the museum's Editorial Department. She has also been employed at the Asia Society (New York), Alfred A. Knopf, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Susan Chun’s Specialties:

print publishing, electronic publishing, publishing contracts, editing, intellectual property policy, rights management, information strategy for museums, multilingual content creation and management, social software, grant writing

Susan Chun’s Experience

Principal

Susan Chun, Cultural Heritage Consulting

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

I am an independent consultant to cultural heritage institutions, including museums, libraries, funders, universities, and consortia, and an instructor in the masters degree program in technology-enhanced cultural heritage at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and (as of Fall 2009), a lecturer in the museum studies program at Johns Hopkins University. I write and speak frequently on museum publishing, intellectual property policy, open content initiatives, information management and cataloguing strategy, and social software.
Founder and Project Lead

Steve.Museum

(Museums and Institutions industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

I am the founder of the Steve.Museum project, a collaboration of museums and museum professionals that is investigating and implementing social tagging tools and methods in cultural heritage organizations. I currently serve as co-Principal Investigator and Project Lead for the IMLS-funded "Steve in Action" project at the New Media Consortium, and consult to the University of Maryland's IMLS-funded "T3: Text, Tags, Trust" research project.
General Manager for Collection Information Planning; Senior Editor for New Media

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

June 1998 — April 2007 (8 years 11 months)
Publications Manager

Asia Society

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Senior Production Manager

Alfred A. Knopf

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

February 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 11 months)
Production Manager

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

February 1989 — January 1994 (5 years )
Editorial and Production Assistant

Philadelphia Museum of Art

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

June 1986 — June 1988 (2 years 1 month)