Greetings from Pittsburgh, PA.
I'm Tracey Berg-Fulton, and I'm the Collections Database Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Art. My job is basically to be a data nerd, assist the database administrator in fixing the quirks that have found their way in to the database, and to help turn blob-shaped provenance data in to beautiful, structured, linked-open-data. My work and my interests sit in that delightfully uncharted territory of collections care and technology.
My background is as a registrar- I spent several years as a contract registrar, working in the greater Pittsburgh region, before becoming the registrar of the August Wilson Center. I left AWC to stretch my technical brain by working at a software startup as a data manager, before landing in my position here at CMoA.
I earned my MLitt from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where I researched tenements and tenement tiling, and I studied at Otterbein College as an undergraduate in photography and journalism.
To "relax", I run, and I'll be running my tenth marathon in Columbus, Ohio in just under two weeks. Apparently, I never learn my lesson. I also do advocacy work for Type 1 Diabetes (which I've had since the age of 9), primarily in education and working to broaden access to diabetes technology. My spare time is spent photographing with my Holga 120, and hanging out with with my Giant Schnauzer/Labrador mix, Walter, and my husband, Pat.
I'm always up for a chat on the responsive web, collections databases, the semantic web, linked open data, and the future of the collections care profession, so reach out if you've got questions!
Cheers,
Tracey
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Tracey Berg-Fulton
Collections Database Associate
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh PA
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