Information Expert at DANS, project leader
Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Information expert at Data Archiving and Networked Services
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Stipp
- Software Engineer at Mediabuilders
- Research and Developer at Kluwer
- Software Engineer at FAIR Information Services
- Education
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- Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Northumbria Bible College
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- University of Groningen
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Dirk Roorda’s Summary
Experience: Computing, Programming Languages, Markup Languages (SGML, XML, HTML), Text processing (conversion and layout).
Goal: Contribute to longterm durability of digital information
Means: definition of a storage language in XML and implementing convertors from current data formats to this generic format and vice versa.
Dirk Roorda’s Specialties:
Technical expert in publishing workflows using SGML/XML for content and web applications for control.
Dirk Roorda’s Experience
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Information expert
Data Archiving and Networked Services
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Programma manager and project leader of data archiving projects and efforts directed to digital preservation. DANS is a member institute of the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences)
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Senior Software Engineer
Stipp
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
Een generiek import/export programma gemaakt van XML naar SQL Server, vice versa. Toegepast op een model met 40 tabellen en 130 relaties en 20MB XML data
XSLFO opmaak
een lastige conversie (hyperlinks aanbrengen op basis van fuzzy data)
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Software Engineer
Mediabuilders
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 1 month)
My job is innovating the prepress workflows for large customers like publishing companies.
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Research and Developer
Kluwer
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
January 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 3 months)
My job was research into applications and methods relevant to
a publisher that deals with large flows of texts from a great number of sources towards several media. Conversion to and from SGML/XML, automatic typesetting, language tools, workflow portals, etc. -
Software Engineer
FAIR Information Services
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 2 months)
My job was making pilot and production applications for publishing on demand workflows. I used TeX, FrameMaker+SGML, XML, XSLT, DSSSL, Omnimark. And I used Perl a lot.
Dirk Roorda’s Education
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Summer Institute of Linguistics
linguistics, anthropology 1995 — 1996
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Northumbria Bible College
theology, hebrew 1994 — 1995
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
Ph.D., Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, 1987 — 1991
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University of Groningen
Master, Mathematics and Computer Science, September 1980 — July 1987
Additional Information
Dirk Roorda’s Websites:
Dirk Roorda’s Interests:
landscapes, language, cycling, sustainable forms of energy, everything connected with the miracle of existence, history, chinese heritage
Dirk Roorda’s Groups:
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XML and Related Technologies Network -
Kluwer Connection / Employees & Alumni -
Archives Professionals
Dirk Roorda’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
