Julien A. Raemy

Cultural Heritage & Digital Preservation Expert. Active member of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Linked Art.

[A bit about me]

My name is Julien Antoine Raemy (he/him) and I come from Fribourg, Switzerland. I’m a bookseller by trade, having completed my Certificate of Vocational Education and Training in 2008. After a six-month internship in the ELT Marketing Department of Oxford University Press in the UK and completing my military service, I spent time teaching English in Poland and working in Australia, trying to work out what to do next.

[What I do now]

Between 2013 and 2017, I completed a Bachelor in Library and Information Science at HEG-GE in Geneva whilst working as a Photo Archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project at EPFL’s MetaMedia Center. I then worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant at HEG-GE, helping to coordinate the bilingual LIS curriculum whilst completing my Master’s degree in Information Science.

In 2020, I briefly worked as a Knowledge Graph Engineer and IIIF Systems Architect for the Swiss Art Research Infrastructure before pursuing a funded PhD at the University of Basel. Between 2021 and 2024, I worked at the Digital Humanities Lab on the Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archive (PIA) research project, whilst also working as an Interoperability Specialist at DaSCH.

I successfully defended my PhD thesis in November 2024: Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability.

From April 2024 to December 2025, I worked as a Data Scientist and Project Manager at the Swiss Federal Archives, coordinating the development of LINDASnext, a platform enabling public administrations to publish and visualise their data as knowledge graphs.

Since February 2025, I’m a Research Associate at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities, University of Bern, and since January 2026, I work as a Digital Archiving Project Manager at docuteam.

[About this website]

This website is about my work, views and expectations on Information Interoperability, Knowledge Representation, Linked Open Data, Digital Preservation, Science and Technology Studies and all sorts of things related to the Cultural Heritage field.