Jeff Steward

Director
Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, Harvard Art Museums

Jeff Steward is director of digital infrastructure and emerging technologies (DIET) at the Harvard Art Museums, exploring and leading the museums on the use of a wide range of digital technology. He oversees the collections database, API, and photography studio. For the opening of the new Harvard Art Museums in November 2014, he helped launch the Lightbox Gallery, a public research and development space. Steward has worked at museums with museum data since 1999. Areas of research include visualization of cultural datasets; open access to metadata and multimedia material; and data interoperability and sustainability.