Hi, I’m Nurdan!
Near Eastern Archaeologist
and Ph.D. on Information and Records Management.

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Biography

Dr. Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez

I am a Near Eastern Archaeologist, have Ph.D. on Information and Records Management at Ankara University. I have a Ms Degree from Settlement Archaeology at Middle East Technical University. I worked in different archaeological sites in Türkiye. I have an expertise in using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and applied my skills in GIS for landscape archaeology as Archaeologist and Project Assistant at Kerkenes Project in Yozgat and Ankara, Türkiye between 2000 and 2004. My experiences of synergy between classical methods of archaeology and information technologies has been highly influential on my professional work in Ministry of Culture and Tourism. My expertise thesis for her tenure at Ministry of Culture and Tourism was about implementation of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology at museums, where I initiated and coordinated Museum National Inventory System (MNIS) with my colleagues. I later became the Project Manager of the System. I joined the BIAA as Digital Repository Manager at the beginning of November 2018. Online Digital Repository system accessible via https://digitalrepository.biaa.ac.uk/ 

I am founder and coordinator of Dijital Kültürel Miras Ağı (Digital Cultural Heritage Network in Türkiye) since 2021. I am also Honorary Associate Research Fellow, at the Exeter University from 01 June 2021 to 31 March 2024 in the College of Humanities. 

Instructor at Middle East Technical University, Settlement Archaeology Department (….-October 2023).

I am married and I am the mother of Serra. 

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