Eric de Ruijter

02 November 2018 - 16:00

Manager collections

E-mail: edr@iisg.nl
Department: Collections

Studied Modern History at the Free University Amsterdam. He started working at the IISH in 1988, successively at the Collections department, the Digital Projects department, and the Public Services department.

At the moment working as Manager Collections.
Involved in several collections projects:

to improve the workflow and preservation of digital objects
to convert collection metadata into linked data
to improve the preservation of and the access to oral history collections
to enrich archival metadata with named entities
to transcribe and enrich the membership cards of Dutch diamond workers
to maintain the biographical dictionary of dutch volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
involved in presenting new collections to the Friends of the IISH.

And also

member of the project team for a LOD infrastructure for Amsterdam cultural heritage ("het verhaal van Amsterdam")
member of the working group Usable Digital Heritage of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.
chair of the DARIAH working group Sustainable publishing of (meta)data.

IISH Staff | Eric de Ruijter | Photo by Martin van Welzen

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