Juliana Alves is a consultant in the area of Collection Management and Heritage. Since 2020 provides consulting services in data normalization for the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto. She obtained her PhD in Heritage Studies – Museology branch, at Faculdade de Artes, Universidade do Porto (2020), with an FCT Ph. From this research he received the award for Best Studies on Museology by the Portuguese Museology Association. She holds a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Art History and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). His specialty is standardization of procedures, museum documentation, and the use of evaluation tools to improve collection management. The result of the PhD was a tool (RUMO) that allows a self-diagnosis, an evaluation that museum teams can use to improve collection management. Since 2015, he collaborates with the Working Group on Information Systems in Museums (GT-SIM) of the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (BAD), mainly in the underlining of terminologies. Since 2010 she has been affiliated with the Committee on Documentation in Museums (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and between 2023 and 2016 she will hold the position of editor on the CIDOC Board. In the last five years,
she deferred as a trainer, participated in working groups, published articles, presented communication in congresses, organized events and seminars that contributed to the discussion, revision of normative content and knowledge sharing about museum documentation.