Dieter Suls
Librarian
Fashion Museum of Antwerp
Belgium, BE
Cultural Heritage
Since 1999, Dieter Suls has held the position of scientific librarian at the library of the Antwerp Fashion Museum - MoMu - one of the largest fashion libraries in Europe. He holds a master degree in Art History, Library Science and Public Management. He was also involved in the Contemporary Fashion Archive (www.contemporaryfashion.net), a former EU Culture 2000 project and Open Fashion (a project on aggregating content from different MoMu-databases, CFA and the repository of digital Masterworks students from the Antwerp Fashion Academy). He is one of the initiators of Europeana Fashion, a CIP ICT PSP-project (objective Aggregating Content for European) in which he coordinated the Work Package on Content Aggregation and the Sustainability Plan of Europeana Fashion. Currently Dieter coordinates with the Antwerp University on a project on its Study Collection, and a project on establishing a Linked Open Data Thesaurus for Dutch/Flemish fashion heritage collections.
