Sara van Bussel

Current

Researcher at Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Past

Worker at Museum Jan Cunen
Cataloger at Ziekenhuis Bernhoven
Intern at Bijzondere Collecties at Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Intern at Web Archiving (HRD-DD) at Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Intern at University of Utrecht
Temporary employee at Grafisis
Consultancy Assistant at Interest & Currency Consultants ICC
Temp at GrafiSIS & AdvieSIS BV

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Education

Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Universiteit Utrecht
S.G. Jan van Brabant

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Sara van Bussel’s Summary

I graduated in 2008 as a heritage professional with focus on information management and digital heritage. I graduated on digital preservation tools at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library). I work at the KB on projects dealing with digital preservation.

Sara van Bussel’s Specialties:

Information management, digital heritage and digital preservation

Sara van Bussel’s Experience

Researcher

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Working on research projects in the field of Digital Preservation, for example PLANETS.
Worker

Museum Jan Cunen

(Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

August 2007 — January 2008 (6 months)

(Volunteer) work at a new exhibition (Depotruimers) where I (and other volunteers) work in the museum so visitors can ask us about museum work. I also help with registration.
Cataloger

Ziekenhuis Bernhoven

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)

For the art commission of the hospital I catalogued the art, religions and museum collection. I also helped with problems arising from art being in a public (work)space and the move to a new building.
Intern at Bijzondere Collecties

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

I worked on the 'retrocatalogisering' project, describing and cataloging 18th/19th century letters, books, notebooks etc.
Intern at Web Archiving (HRD-DD)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)

As an intern I did a research project into users and usability for the web archiving project.
Intern

University of Utrecht

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

November 2005 — February 2006 (4 months)

As an intern (together with another student) I cataloged and repackaged the research collection of the geological department, consisting of micro-paleontological materials.
Temporary employee

Grafisis

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)

Temporary employee in the summer of 2005. Bookkeeping, mail sorting and other tasks.
Consultancy Assistant

Interest & Currency Consultants ICC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)

I worked with the consultants as an assistant. I prepared appointments, did filling work and managed the customer database.
Temp

GrafiSIS & AdvieSIS BV

(Museums and Institutions industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

Sara van Bussel’s Education

Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten

Reinwardt Academie, HBO , Information management/digital heritage , 2004 — 2008

I did my minor at Utrecht University: Medieval Latin; JAVA programming; and database design. My thesis was on a gap analysis of the gap between existing file formats in cultural and scientific organisations, and the preservation tools available for these file formats.
Universiteit Utrecht

Medieval History 2002 — 2004
S.G. Jan van Brabant

VWO , E&M, Informatica, M&O, KCV , 1995 — 2001