Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage

Perla Innocenti is a cultural heritage and information studies scholar. She is Senior Lecturer in Information Science at the iSchool of Northumbria University and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Her research and publications cross disciplinary boundaries between cultural heritage, museum studies, cultural informatics, library and information science. In particular she has a passion for investigating the ways cultural collections can be acquired, managed, preserved, accessed, displayed and interpreted in a digital world. Perla has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, a MA from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Research Fellowships from University of Glasgow and Politecnico di Milano. She led research as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in several national and EU-funded collaborative research projects, and worked in libraries and with museums. With Ashgate, Perla published Migrating Heritage (ed., 2014).