Dr. Silvia Daniel heads the Acquisition, Collection Development and Cataloguing 1 department at the Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich, Germany.

After studying Medieval and Modern History, Philosophy and Political Science in Bonn and Oxford, she obtained her PhD from the University of Bonn in 2006 and began her career in librarianship following positions at the University of Mainz. She initially served as personal assistant to the Director General and as Deputy Head of the Centre for Electronic Publishing – Subject Information History at the BSB. 

Her main interests lie in the collaboration of memory institutions in the field of digital humanities, research data management, and the future of research libraries in the age of datafication. Silvia has many years of experience with the infrastructure of Specialised Information Services (FID) in Germany (particularly historical sciences and ancient studies) and represented the BSB until the end of 2023 on the Steering Committee of the NFDI4Memory consortium within the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany. Silvia has published on the topics of Specialised Information Services and research data and is co-editor of the Clio Guides. Since 2025, she has been coordinating the working group on AI at the Bavarian State Library.

She is a member of the LIBER Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage Collections (DSDCH) Working Group.