Sarah Joomun

Digital Collections Manager

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Sarah is the Digital Collections Manager at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, managing the museum’s digital collections data and images.

Sarah is a specialist in digital strategy and natural science metadata, and digitisation, particularly of fossils and archives and has an interest in search and discovery of natural science collections. She has just completed a project to implement a new Digital Asset Management system, where she was the Senior User.

Sarah has more than ten years’ experience working with digital collections, including a wide range of collections digitisation projects, from 3D digitisation of fossils, to scanning and cataloguing archival material. She introduced an integrated collections management system at OUMNH, and has been involved in several stages of development of the museum’s online collections portal.

Before entering the museum profession, Sarah worked in palaeontological research and geoscience publishing, and has a BSc in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Durham, an MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, and a PhD on Mammal Palaeobiology from Royal Holloway University of London and the Natural History Museum.

Sarah is a member of the Museum Advisory Group of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge and Co-Treasurer of the Museums Computer Group.

Siveter D.J., Sutton M.D., Legg D., Joomun S. 2014. A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20132986.

Siveter D.J., Briggs D.E.G., Siveter D.J., Sutton M.D., Joomun S.C. 2013. A Silurian myodocope with preserved soft-parts: cautioning the interpretation of the shell-based ostracod record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280, 20122664.

Joomun, S.C., Hooker, J.J. & Collinson, M.E. 2010. Changes in dental wear of Plagiolophus minor across the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, 563–576.

Joomun, S.C., Hooker, J.J. & Collinson, M.E. 2008. Dental wear variation and implications for diet: an example from Eocene perissodactyls (Mammalia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 263, 92–106.

Senior User, OUMNH Digital Asset Management system implementation, 2023-25.

Web/Collections Content Lead, Enhancing Collections Online, 2022-23. Funded by GLAM Labs.

Museum Lead (OUMNH), Oxford Linked Open Data Project (OXLOD), 2017-18.

Project Officer, Lyell Digitization Project. 2015–16. Funded by the Street Foundation.

Documentation Officer, Gems of Earth and Air. 2014–15. Funded by the Designation Development Fund, Arts Council England.

Collections Assistant, Flying Icons: The Collection of William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818) and the Jones’ Icones. 2013–14. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Collections Assistant, William Smith Online: The Father of English Geology. 2012–13. Funded by the Designation Development Fund, Arts Council England.

Collections Assistant, GB3D Type Fossils Online. 2011–12. Funded by JISC.