Julien Antoine Raemy
IIIF and Linked Data Specialist
Swiss Federal Archives, Bern
Switzerland, CH
Academic Research
Julien A. Raemy currently works as a Data Scientist at the Swiss Federal Archives. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information Science from the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland. He expects to complete his PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Basel in 2024, with a dissertation titled "Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability." Julien has worked extensively in academia and in or for the cultural heritage domain, including as a Photo Archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2015 to 2017, as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Haute école de gestion de Genève from 2017 to 2021, and as an Interoperability Specialist at DaSCH, Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities, from 2021 to 2024. He is an active member of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Linked Art.