Rodriguez Echavarria, Karina (19..-....)

Univ. Brighton, UK.

Karina is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. She obtained her PhD at the University of Wolverhampton in the area of knowledge-based engineering in 2005 and an MA in Histories and Cultures at the University of Brighton in 2008. Karina has worked in several European projects researching in the areas of digital collections and 3D technologies for cultural heritage organisations producing research outputs in interdisciplinary areas. She led the UK-EPSRC funded project on semantic technologies for 3D digital repositories from 2014-2016. Her research interests include the documentation and visualisation of heritage collections as well as their exploitation for creative purposes (e.g. visual arts and crafts). Other research interests include information and knowledge management of 3D artefacts, semantic technologies, digital fabrication and the practical aspects of deployment in the heritage sector. She contributes in various international committees in these areas, and is currently Information Director for the ACM Journal in Computing and Cultural Heritage.