Susan Chun

General Manager for Electronic Information Planning
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Office of the Director/Editorial
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York NY
10028 USA
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Susan Chun is General Manager for Electronic Information Planning at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this capacity, she works from the Office of the Director on long-range planning for art-related information projects, including print and electronic publishing, collections management, asset management, photography and imaging, rights administration, provenance research, and intellectual property policy. Prior to working in the Director's Office, Susan was a member of the Museum's Editorial Department and she continues to advise the department on a range of business and scholarly publishing issues and to oversee electronic publishing projects, including several collection catalogues and a new series of online symposium papers, as well as a revision of The Metropolitan Museum Guide to Editorial Style and Procedures. She has been employed previously at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and at Alfred A. Knopf.

Susan will present Cataloguing by Crowd; A proposal for the development of a community cataloguing tool to capture subject information for images.