About me
[In a nutshell]
I’m Julien Antoine Raemy (he/him), originally from Fribourg, Switzerland. Trained as a bookseller, I went on to study Information Science at the Haute école de gestion de Genève (HES-SO), then earned a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Basel.
My work focuses on improving the digital preservation, dissemination and interoperability of cultural heritage and its metadata through open standards built on the Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) design principles. I’m an active member of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Linked Art and ARK Alliance communities.
[What I do now]
Since January 2026
Semantic Architect and Project Manager at docuteam, primarily helping archives and other heritage institutions model, preserve and share their resources.
Since February 2025
Research Associate at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities Center at the University of Bern.
Since February 2021
Lecturer
- HEG-GE
- BSc in Information Science: Introduction to Open Data (2023–2027)
- University of Zurich / Zurich Central Library
- CAS Data Management and Information Technologies: IIIF (2021–2026)
- MAS Bibliotheks‑ und Informationswissenschaft: IIIF (2021–2027)
- Universities of Bern and Lausanne
- MAS in Archival, Library and Information Science: IIIF and Linked Data (2024–2026)
- CAS in Digital Literacy for ALIS Professions: Semantic interoperability of cultural heritage (2027)
[How I got here]
2008–2013
Books came first. I completed my Certificate of Vocational Education and Training as a bookseller in 2008, followed by a six-month internship in the ELT Marketing Department of Oxford University Press in the UK. I then spent some time teaching English in Poland and working in Australia, trying to work out what to do next.
2013–2020
The answer turned out to be information science. Between 2013 and 2017, I completed a Bachelor in Information Science at HEG-GE while working as a Photo Archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project at EPFL’s MetaMedia Center, which was later renamed Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center. I stayed on at HEG-GE as a Research and Teaching Assistant, helping to coordinate the bilingual LIS curriculum, and completed my Master’s degree in Information Science along the way.
2020–2024
In 2020, I briefly worked as a Knowledge Graph Engineer and IIIF Systems Architect for the Swiss Art Research Infrastructure before starting a funded PhD at the University of Basel. From 2021 to 2024, I was part of the Digital Humanities Lab on the Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives (PIA) research project, while also working as an Interoperability Specialist at DaSCH. In November 2024, I successfully defended my thesis, Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability.
2024–2025
From April 2024 to December 2025, I was a Data Scientist and Project Manager at the Swiss Federal Archives, where I coordinated the development of LINDASnext, a platform enabling public administrations to publish and visualise their data as knowledge graphs.
[About this website]
This website gathers 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.