Simon Tanner

Simon Tanner is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He is a digital humanities scholar with a wide-ranging interest in cross-disciplinary thinking and collaborative approaches that reflect a fascination with interactions between memory institution collections (libraries, museum, archives, media and publishing) and the digital domain.

As an information professional, consultant, digitisation expert and academic he works with major cultural institutions across the world to assist them in transforming their impact, collections and online presence. He has consulted for or managed over 500 digital projects, including digitisation of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Tanner and Bearman, 2009), and has built strategy with a wide range of organisations. These include many national libraries, museums and government agencies in Europe, Africa, America and the Middle East. Tanner has had work commissioned by UNESCO, the Arcadia Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He founded the Digital Futures Academy that has run in the UK, Australia, South Africa and Ghana with participants from over 40 countries.

Research into image use and sales in American art museums by Simon Tanner has had a significant effect on opening up collections access and OpenGLAM in the museum sector. Tanner is a strong advocate for open access, open research and the digital humanities. He was chair of the Web Archiving sub-committee as an independent member of the UK government-appointed Legal Deposit Advisory Panel. He is a member of the Europeana Impact Taskforce that developed the Impact Playbook based on his Balanced Value Impact Model. He was part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council- (AHRC) funded Academic Book of the Future research team.

Tanner teaches on the Masters in Digital Asset and Media Management and the BA in Digital Culture at King’s College London. He was Pro Vice Dean for Research Impact and Innovation until 2020. He is currently the Vice Dean, Humanities for People and Planning in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

He tweets as @SimonTanner and blogs at http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/.

He owns and runs the BVI Model website at www.BVIModel.org.