Douwe Zeldenrust

Douwe Arjen Zeldenrust

June 7th, 1969
Nijmegen
The Netherlands

I work for the Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands. Both the Huygens Institute and the Meertens Instituut are part of the Humanities Cluster (HuC) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and within this organization, I am responsible for the Collection Management of the collections of the Meertens Instituut. Next to being Manager Collections and member of the Management Team, my role is to facilitate innovation as Senior Research Data Manager. My aim is to provide access to cultural information. And my focus is on collections, ICT and Digital Humanities.

Experience

• 2020 - up till now: Manager Collections Meertens Institute and Senior Research Data Manager - Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

  1. Member of the Management Team of the Meertens Instituut.

  2. PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam (UvA).

  3. Chair of Humanities Cluster work group 'Collections & GDPR'.

  4. Privacy Coordinator Collections, Humanities Cluster.

  5. Chair of the Spatial and Digital History network of the European Social Science History Conference.

  6. Affiliated member of NL-Lab (KNAW Humanities Cluster).

• 2011 - 2020: Manager Collections, Meertens Instituut (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

• Member of the Management Team of the Meertens Instituut.

• Member KNAW work group 'Research Data' (2014 - 2017).

• Partner in Parthenos EU project (2015 - 2017).

• Member of the SURFsara working group 'Research Data Management, Engagement' (LCRDM) (2016-2017).

• Member KNAW project team 'Towards a digital, sustainable and accessible archive' (2017).

• Chair of the KNAW Working Group Open Access & Digital Durability (2014-2016).

• Advisor to the Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed, NDE, Network Digital Heritage (2014 - 2015).

• 2008 - 2011: Coordinator External Cooperation (Project Manager, ICT Consultant & Researcher), Meertens Instituut - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

• 2006 - 2008: ICT Consultant, department for ICT Services - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). From 2006 until 2008 I was a member of the KNAW Collection Working Group.

• 2004 - 2006: Researcher and Project leader, Meertens Instituut - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). From 2002 until 2005 I was, as part of the KNAW, a committee member of the Visual Culture Working Group of the Huizinga Instituut.

• 2001 - 2004: Information and Collection Specialist, department of History Studies at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

• 1996 - 2000: Assistant Provincial Archaeologist and Archaeological Field Research Coordinator, Joan Willems Stichting.

• 1992 - 1995: Tour Guide at the Netherlands Maritime Museum.