The Summer Educational Institute.

Empowering visual information students and professionals since 2004.

SEI is a dedicated institute focused on instructing individuals in the stewardship of visual materials within digital collections. It offers extensive insights and foundational practices related to digital curation and preservation in the context of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions).

Save the Date for SEI 2025!

SEI 2025 will be held online Monday, June 16–Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

This year, in an effort to prevent Zoom fatigue, SEI’s five instruction days will be spaced over the course of a week and a half. A tentative schedule can be viewed here. Details suspect to change.

Meet the SEI 2025 Ethical Digital Stewardship Keynote Speakers

We are excited to announce that our 2025 Ethical Digital Stewardship Keynote Speakers are Jessica Herczeg-Konecny and Marshall N. Price, PhD, who will be speaking on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Museums.

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Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Jessica Herczeg-Konecny is the Lead Technical Analyst, Digital Asset Management, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Marshall N. Price, PhD

Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies.

Upon completion of the Summer Educational Institute, participants will gain the ability to:

  • Develop strategic approaches for digital stewardship concepts such as copyright, accessibility, cultural heritage metadata, etc., tailored specifically for digital collections in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions).

  • Apply introductory and ethically sound digital curation and preservation practices to enhance visual material digital collections.

  • Tailor the digital stewardship lifecycle to accommodate the diverse needs of relevant communities and stakeholders.

SEI is ideal for:

  • New GLAM professionals seeking a solid foundation in digital collection curation and preservation.

  • Recent graduates from disciplines focused on cultural heritage, providing them with valuable insights into digital collections.

  • GLAM professionals who require a refresher on digital collection curation and preservation practices.

What Participants Are Saying

 

“I really enjoyed SEI, even more than I had expected. I have used some of the concepts that I learned at my institution already. It was a great experience.”

“SEI is exactly what I needed. I can now speak the language of repositories and suggest projects based on what I learned at SEI. Even when the topics were over my head I hung in with a positive attitude. I know that when I need to learn a technical aspect of VRCs, I can locate the information, SEI gave me resources.”

“Overall, the whole week was quite WONDERFUL!! I learned a lot from the lectures that were helpful to me (digitization and repositories), and the conversations had during meals and breaks were enlightening.”