Dana Reijerkerk, M.S.I.

Hi, I'm Dana. I'm a data consultant, freelance digital asset manager, writer, and indie developer that doesn't fit into a box. I like working on data-driven projects that challenge our assumptions of technology and stretch our creativity capabilities. I specialize in digital asset management, data migrations, decolonization, devising data-driven projects, and UX/UI Design.

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My Public Speaking

I regularly give lectures, presentations, and lead workshops on topics such as: open access, decolonization, metadata, DAM, data science, and Artificial Intelligence in archives.

My Writing

I write freelance and research pieces on sociotechnical issues in data and the intersections and borders between technology and social power structures. My work appears in blogs, books, magazines, newsletters, and academic publications.

Writings

"Considerations for Open-Source DAM Solutions," DAM News
"Archivists and Emotional Labor: Processing Personas and Personal Identities in Archives," in Archives and Emotions (London: Bloomsbury)
"Open Access Mandates and Indigenous Materials: Ways to Ethically Collaborate," Museum Computer Network
"Archives, Decolonization, and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty," American Archivist

My Video Games

I frequently participate in video game jams, intense timed development experiences where you make a video game (application) from scratch based loosely around a jam theme.