Charlie Butcosk

Charlie Butcosk has fifteen years of experience developing software for integrated cultural collection management, linked data, video editing, image processing, academic research, and museums. His projects move fluidly between technical development and humanistic study, typically using technology to activate unruly historical data. As a developer who is also active in the humanities, he understands the contexts of use and advocates for delivering high value to users in all our work. Charlie has led the development of Design for Context’s projects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Spencer Art Reference Library. In addition to his software development work with Design for Context, part of his time is spent as the Digital Projects Developer at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. He has presented his work on linked data in community webinars and interoperable image APIs at the College Art Association and the Visual Resources Association.

Charlie holds an M.A. in Art & Archaeology from Princeton University, along with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a B.A. in English from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a research assistant at the Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin and Princeton University, and conducted dissertation research under a Fulbright Research Grant at the Freie Universität, Berlin.