Eric de Ruijter
Profile
- 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 (link is external)
- to maintain the biographical dictionary of dutch volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (link is external)
- involved in presenting new collections to the Friends of the IISH.
- member of the project team for a LOD infrastructure for Amsterdam cultural heritage (link is external) ("het verhaal van Amsterdam")
- member of the working group Usable Digital Heritage (link is external) of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.
- chair of the DARIAH working group Sustainable publishing of (meta)data (link is external).
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:
And also