Snyder, Sara Christine
Head, External Affairs and Digital Strategies, Smithsonian American Art Museum
My areas of specialty include digital strategy, leadership, communications, user experience research, media production, marketing technologies, information science, Wikimedia and open knowledge communities.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- M.A. in American History, University of Maryland , Department of History 2004 - 2007
- M.L.I.S. in Archives, University of Maryland , College of Information Studies 2004 - 2007
Publications
Selected Publications
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Chapter
- Snyder, Sara. 2018. "Edit-a-thons and Beyond: Planning for Successful Wikipedia Events." In Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. Proffit, Merrilee, editor. Chicago: American Library Association. 2018
- Snyder, Sara. 2018. "Possibilities and constraints for virtual visits: Experimental approaches to VR at the Smithsonian American Art Museum." In Museums and the Web 2018: Selected Papers and Proceedings from an International Conference. Silver Spring, Maryland: Museums and the Web. 2018
- Knoblock, Craig A., Szekely, Pedro, Fink, Eleanor, Degler, Duane, Newbury, David, Sanderson, Robert, Blanch, Kate, Snyder, Sara, Chheda, Nilay, Jain, Nimesh, Raju Krishna, Ravi, Begur Sreekanth, Nikhila, and Yao, Yixiang. 2017. "Lessons Learned in Building Linked Data for the American Art Collaborative." In The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017. d'Amato, Claudia, Fernandez, Miriam, Tamma, Valentina, Lecue, Freddy, Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe, Sequeda, Juan, Lange, Christoph, and Heflin, Jeff, editors. 263–279. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68204-4_26. 2017
- Snyder, Sara Christine and Botten, Elizabeth. 2014. "Websites as a Digital Extension of Reference: Creating a Reference and IT Partnership for Web Usability Studies." In Reference and Access: Innovative Best Practices in Archives and Special Collections. Theimer, Kate, editor. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2014
- Snyder, Sara Christine. 2014. "Wikipedia is Made of People! Revelations from Collaborating with the World's Most Popular Encyclopedia." In Outreach: Innovative Practices in Archives and Special Collections. Theimer, Kate, editor. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2014
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Conference Paper
- Snyder, Sara Christine. 2018. "Possibilities and Constraints for Virtual Visits: Experimental Approaches to VR At the Smithsonian American Art Museum." from MW18: Museums and the Web 2018. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 2018-04-18. Museums and the Web. 2018
- Snyder, Sara Christine. 2017. "Guerrilla Glue: Making Collaborative Digital Innovation Projects Stick." from MCN 50 – Looking Back, thinking forward, taking action. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 2017-11-10. Museum Computer Network. 2017
- Custer, Mark, Huffman, Noah, Levine Knies, Jennie, and Snyder, Sara Christine. 2012. "Five Repositories, One Dataset: Using Exploratory Data Analysis Techniques to Track Patterns of Use." from 76th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. (San Diego, California) 2012-08-07. Society of American Archivists. 2012
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Thesis
- Snyder, Sara Christine. 2007. "Odyssey of an Archives: What the History of the Gordon W. Prange Collection of Japanese Materials Teaches Us About Libraries, Censorship, and Keeping the Past Alive." Master's thesis, University of Maryland. 2007
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Department