#14 Chester Beatty Library: digital solutions to improve access to museums

During a study tour in Dublin I had the chance to visit the Chester
Beatty Library and have a talk with Tim Keefe – Head of Digital. We
talked about using digital solutions to improve access to and
experience of the Museum. Tim Keefe is the Head of Digital for the
Chester Beatty Museum in Dublin Ireland. This new department is
responsible for ongoing digitisation of the museum’s collections
and their open access dissemination through new web based
infrastructure. Tim is also responsible for the development and
implementation of the museums long term digital strategy and
vision. In addition to this role Tim is the Director of Finance and
non-executive board member of the Digital Preservation Coalition,
and is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate programme for the
school of Information and Communication Studies at University
College Dublin. Prior to this position Tim worked as the Head of
the Digital Resources and Imaging Services at Trinity College
Dublin. This department was dedicated to the development of digital
library resources from the university’s special collections and
archives. Tim also worked as a Research Scientist at the Eastman
Kodak Corporation in the Research and Development Division as a
member of a new product development and innovation laboratory, as
well as in the Kodak Professional Digital Capture Group supporting
the development of innovative new professional digital capture
products. https://chesterbeatty.ie/