Dr. Quoc-Tan Tran

Quoc-Tan Tran is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History, University of Hamburg, Germany. He has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Hamburg, and a Master of Research in Library and Information Science from the University of Lille, France. From 2018 to 2022, he was a Marie Curie fellow within the EU Horizon 2020 Training Network POEM (Participatory Memory Practices). He works on digital infrastructure, and behind-the-scenes work of documentation and metadata management in cultural heritage.

• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2023. Standardization and the Neglect of Museum Objects: An Infrastructure-Based Approach for Inclusive Integration of Cultural Artifacts, Knowledge Organization 50 (5).
• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2022. “Setting the Scene for Participation: Socio-Technical Negotiations in Museum Work.” Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky. https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/10306.
• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2021. ““Working things out”: a back-stage examination of museum documentation.” Museums & Social Issues 15 (1-2): 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2022.2143760 .
• Kist, Cassandra and Quoc-Tan Tran. 2021. “Breaking Boundaries, Creating Connectivities: Enabling Access to Digitized Museum Collections.” In Culture and Computing. Interactive Cultural Heritage and Arts: 9th International Conference, C&C 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Matthias Rauterberg, 406–22. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2020. “Caring for people and objects—museums in the COVID-19 era.” Open GLAM, 8 July 2020. https://medium.com/open-glam/museums-caring-in-covid-5f0972f40b0c.
• Fraisse, Amel, Ronald Jenn and Quoc-Tan Tran. 2018. “Crowdsourcing Model for Multilingual Corpus and Knowledge Construction: The Case of Transnational Mark Twain.” ZIN. Issues in Information Science - Information Studies 56 (1): 21–32. https://doi.org/10.36702/zin.379.
• Fraisse, Amel, Quoc-Tan Tran, Ronald Jenn, Patrick Paroubek and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 2018. “TransLiTex: A Parallel Corpus of Translated Literary Texts.” Eleventh international conference on language resources and evaluation (LREC 2018).
• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2018. “Knowledge Organization Systems and Cultural Interoperability in Open Humanitarian Settings.” In Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference 9-11 July 2018 Porto, Portugal, edited by Fernanda Ribeiro y Maria E. Cerveira, 624–32. Würzburg: Ergon.
• Tran, Quoc-Tan. 2017. “Ethically Responsible Knowledge Organization Systems: Towards an Intercultural User Interface.” ZIN. Issues in Information Science. Information Studies 55 (2): 16–29. https://doi.org/10.36702/zin.364.