About

Cristina is a Professor at the School of Information (SI) at Pratt Institute in New York, where she teaches courses on Knowledge Organization, Art Documentation, and Artists’ Archives. She is the founder of the Linked Jazz Project and the founder and co-director of the Semantic Lab.

A frequent consultant to libraries, archives, and museums, her research
explores the intersection between cultural heritage and information
access, description and design. Her work in the domains of arts and
humanities, knowledge representation, and linked open data includes
collaborations with the Weeksville Heritage Center,  I Tatti, The Harvard
University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation. She has written extensively on knowledge
organization and semantic technologies in cultural heritage, receiving
recognition for her contributions, including the Jesse H. Shera Award for
Distinguished Published Research.

Cristina currently serves as the Teaching and Curriculum Lead of the
Pratt SI Museums and Digital Culture MS Program and was the
Coordinator of the program from 2017 to 2020. She has been a Visiting
Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage
from 2016-2018 and, in 2025, received a CTL Faculty Fellowship from
the Pratt Center for Teaching and Learning to design a cross-disciplinary
graduate course centered on Venice’s art and architecture, and memory
institutions, including museums, libraries, and archives.