Contributors
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Alison Dalgity is a senior project manager at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), where she focuses primarily on the application of information technology in the conservation field. In the past, she has worked on various complex technological initiatives such as programming mainframe applications and managing the transition of a large nonprofit in Europe from mainframes to personal computers. Her current projects at the GCI include managing the development of the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA), which is an open-source geographic information system (GIS) designed to facilitate the conservation of the archaeological treasures of Jordan and Iraq; supervising the GCI's numerous conservation resources now available on the web; developing an online thesaurus for the conservation field; and managing the upgrade of AATA Online, a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the conservation of cultural heritage.
Neža Čebron Lipovec is an art historian specializing in architectural history and conservation. She received her master's degree in the conservation of monuments and sites from the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC), K.U. Leuven with a thesis on modern architecture within historic city centers, focusing on the case study of the architect Edo Mihevc in her hometown of Koper, Slovenia. Between 2007 and 2010 she was external collaborator of the RLICC researching organized practices of preventive conservation, monitoring, and maintenance of architectural heritage in Europe. Since January 2009 she has been employed as a researcher for architectural heritage at the Institute for Mediterranean Heritage in the Science and Research Centre of Koper (University of Primorska) in Slovenia and works as a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, Slovenia.
Veerle Meul is advisor of historic interiors at Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen vzw. She received a Master of Art in the history of art and archaeology and a postgraduate degree in the conservation of architecture and landscapes with professional courses in preventive conservation. She previously worked in the field of conservation of historic interiors at AM Consult (1994-98), Flemish Community Heritage Services (1998-2002), the Dutch State Heritage Service (2002) and the State Inspectorate for Cultural Heritage (2003-2007). She has been a lecturer in the postgraduate degree program for the conservation of architecture and landscapes (1995-2002) and at ICCROM (2006-2009). [End Page 77]
David Myers is a project specialist in the Getty Conservation Institute's Field Projects department where he has worked since 2001. He currently works on developing the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) for Jordan and Iraq, preparing a site management and conservation plan for the Valley of the Queens on the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt, researching and applying consensus building and conflict resolution methods to cultural heritage place management, and building capacity for conservation and management of rock art in the countries of the Southern African subcontinent. He received a Master of Science in historic preservation in 2000 and an advanced certificate in conservation and site management in 2001 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Gaetano Palumbo holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. In the early 1990s he contributed to the development of JADIS, the first inventory of archaeological sites in Jordan. From 1994 to 2000 he was project specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute. He has taught in the Master in Managing Archaeological Sites program at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and is presently program director for North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia at the World Monuments Fund.
Agamemnon Gus Pantel is an archaeologist and consultant in the management of international cultural patrimony. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an M.A. in anthropology and a B.A. in classics from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He was awarded fellowships at ICCROM, the Smithsonian Institution, and George Washington University. Since 1972 his research and work has been concentrated in Puerto Rico, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Circum-Caribbean area. He has served as deputy state historic preservation officer and state archaeologist for Puerto Rico. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of cultural resources laws for Puerto...
