Nathalie Guénette

Heritage Information Analyst

Main areas of work and/or specializations

• collection documentation and standards
• collection management standards

Biography

Nathalie Guénette obtained her diploma in Museology Techniques from Montmorency College in Laval in 1997. She worked at the Cinémathèque québécoise, where she documented and digitized photographs, posters and archive records. In 1999, she joined the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History), where she held various positions in photographic archives and documentation of objects. There, she developed her expertise in cataloguing and in developing documentation standards.

She joined the Canadian Heritage Information Network in 2017. Previously, she was responsible for the French translation of the Spectrum 5.0 standard. She is also the Chair of the Canadian for Nomenclature and the Senior Editor of the Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging standard.