Pratt Institute

Personal URL

Education

Ph.D., Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography

Cristina Pattuelli is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the Pratt Institute, New York. Her research focuses on information organization and knowledge representation methods and tools applied to information systems — digital libraries in particular. Her current area of research is semantic web technologies applied to cultural heritage resources. She is also interested in human information behavior and interaction applied to specific user groups and communities of practice. Cristina teaches courses on Knowledge Organization, Cultural Heritage and Human Information Behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds advanced degrees in Philosophy, Cultural Heritage Studies, and Archives from the University of Bologna, Italy.