
Consultant at eIFL FOSS and IISH
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Consultant at eIFL FOSS and IISH
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Digital library (DL) practitioner in the non- and not-for-profit sector with a strong belief in the value of open information and data sharing. Designing and evaluating these types of information services is seen as a social practice and creation of DL's approached as human centered iterative design.
Experienced in both the social sciences data archiving world ( www.iassistdata.org ) and in the library world ( www.ifla.org) and having the grand view that Internet and DL's can bridge the musem, archving and library world to the benefit of e-learning, e-research, e-government and plain fun. Convinced that Open Source DL solutions like Greenstone and approaches to sharing content like Creative Commons should in particular benefit the developing world.
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
IISH wishes to replace its library system in 2009, preferrably with a Free and Open Source solution.
(Libraries industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
Program eIFL-FOSS - Southern African Greenstone Support Network: project coordinator (part time) assisting southern African regional coordination;
eIfl.net: case study into Low Cost Digitisaton projects in eIFL membership countries (finished February 2009)
(Information Services industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
This EU funded project www.europeana.eu built a pilot service for searching, exploring and experiencing cultural heritage from European museums, archives, audio-visual archives and libraries.
(Libraries industry)
2001 — December 2007 (6 years )
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Research industry)
1992 — 1997 (5 years )
Check out http://www.iassistdata.org , http://www.cessda.org and http://www.ifdo.org to get an idea of social sciences data sharing and archiving
eIFL, IASSIST, OSS4LIB, CODE4LIB, CODE4BIB [Dutch/Flamish speaking], EUROPEANA in Facebook, eIFL FOSS related groups