Eric de Ruijter
Director data & 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, the Public Services department. and as Manager Collections. As of 1 February 2022, succeeded Afelonne Doek as Director of Data & Collections and member of the institute's management team.
Was involved in several collections’ projects: to improve the sustainable preservation of digital objects, to convert collection metadata into linked data, to enrich archival metadata with named entities, and to ensure IIIF access to all collections. Was as product owner the intermediate between collection projects and the Digital infrastructure department of the KNAW Humanities Cluster.
Is board member of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), the network of Amsterdam heritage institutions (Adamnet), the Labour's Memory project (Sweden), and the Gosteli Stiftung - Archiv zur Geschichte der schweizerischen Frauenbewegung. Is also a member of the 'Infrastructure' working group of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) and chair of the DARIAH working group Sustainable publishing of (meta)data.
For publications and activities see also: KNAW - Pure website - Eric de Ruijter.
