Dana Reijerkerk, M.S.I.

Digital Asset Management, Data Science, Archives, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Developer, and Technical Writing Work

Cartoony crow with her hand on her chin thinking behind a table with a laptop, notebook, and cup on it. A cartoony cat reaches onto the desk for a notebook.

Cartoony crow holding a magic wand and wearing a purple star-covered cloak.

A cartoony crow staring down at a note in her hands that reads: I'm writing a book on archives and the politics of tribal sovereignty violence in the USA.

Data Consulting

Work flexibly with groups across different time zones, languages, and countries on white papers, audits, grants, project revitalization, website UX redesign, museum exhibits, end-to-end project management, and promoting via social media.

Digital Asset Management

Manage data (DAM, CMS, website, catalog raisonné, and animation) and digital assets (images, A/V, working files, voice acting files, scripts, marketing material, fonts, licenses, code, animation files) at the petabyte scale.

FullStack Development

Python, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, GDScript, Ren'Py. Led 10+ multi-system database migrations for WordPress, NetX, DSpace, contentDM, TMS Collections, ArchivEra. Also set up remote access, troubleshooted DNS, VPN, SSL issues.

Freelance Data Services and Projects Highlights

Collective Access (CA) Data Issues data visualization from the database consultancy project with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation include "System thinks like a developer" and "Good at managing archives data but..."

Data Management Assessment Project Report Cover Image. Database Consultancy with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Report described findings for an assessment of the Foundation's data management systems.

Client Work: Database Migration from CollectiveAccess to TMS Collections, ArchivEra, and NetX

Full-Stack Development Services | Digital Product Direction and Management Services | Technical Writing Services | Assessment Services | Database Migration

I reviewed and assessed data management systems, vetted and recommended new ones, and migrated data from CollectiveAccess to TMS Collections and ArchivEra. This project involved project management, DAM, systems administration, development, configuring VPNs and SFTP access via remote tunnels, reindexing via the command line, vendor negotiations, and technical writing.

Output

Assessment of Database Operations Report
Database Coordination Project Final Report
Stakeholder Interviews about Data Issues
Completed Data Migration from CollectiveAccess to TMS and ArchivEra

Client Work: Planning the Expansion of a New Digital Museum (Website Traffic, Website Redesign, Curating a Digital Exhibition)

I was brought on as a project director consultant to direct the permanent exhibit for the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York (2024). I proofread English/Japanese translations, designed wire-frames and the overall user interface, uploaded content, and created metadata.

Scrolling screen shots of the Japanese Artists in NYC Before WWII Permanent Museum Exhibition I worked on as a freelancer.

I also researched national grants for museums/nonprofits, wrote grant narratives, and submitted grant applications. I provided technical writing services by monitoring and reporting on their Google Console and Google Analytics instance.

Gameplay footage of the Live2D animation and point-and-click code in "Hear Me, Hear You". Built in Ren'Py, the game mixed modular blocks of reusable code for point-and-click and animation to optimize the code.

Gameplay footage from "Hear Me, Hear You," showcasing custom layers (like onion skinning in 2D animation). We used layers, hand-drawn animations on the foreground and background to simulate a monster overtaking the player's vision.

Software Development: Lead Programmer, Game Designer, and Director of a 60 minute Indie Game

Fully-voice acted, animated body horror Josei adventure game about a flesh eating parasite made for PC and Mac featuring Live2D animation, point-and-click, unlockable image gallery, fan art, and original music.

"Hear Me, Hear You" was featured in the 2024 Hand Eye Society's Super FESTival (indie video game festival) in Toronto, Canada.

Scrolling view of the 2024 Hand Eye Society's Super FESTival (indie video game festival) in Toronto, Canada. My indie game "Hear Me, Hear You," was an official selection.

Digital Exhibit: Curated the First-Ever Permanent Museum Exhibit for the Seneca Nation of Indians

Curated, described, and installed Reclaiming Ohi:Yo’ - Restoring the Altered Landscape of the Beautiful River (2018), which tells the story of the Seneca Nation of Indians Allegheny Territory's river, climate change, and Seneca resilience. This is a permanent exhibit at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Seneca Nation of Indians.

I also wrote grant narratives, updated and rewrote the archival processing manual for staff, worked and met with Seneca community members/tribal government departments.

Scrolling view of the first permanent digital exhibit for the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum (2018). I curated it, researched it, and coded it.

I also wrote grant narratives, updated and rewrote the archival processing manual for staff, worked and met with Seneca community members/tribal government departments.

The Relational Possibilities Project (2023 - 2024)

An original data science community archive project – which won two LEADING Fellowships and an honorable mention for Library Juice Press’ Vattemare Award, several data conference speaking engagements, was worked into a hands-on high school workshop, and has over 700 video game playthroughs on itch.io.

I used artificial intelligence, machine learning, and video game design to explore a pre-existing dataset of public street art.

Featured Apps & Software

Cartoon Godot Turn-based Game: Don't Talk To Me (2025 - )

2D Dungeons-and-Dragons-style battler made in Godot where you play as Janice fighting to get groceries with your low social battery. Game in active development.

Hand-drawn Ren'Py Visual Novel Game: Late night Surfing (2024)

Anti-capitalist psychological horror indie game about channel surfing made for Android, Mac, and PC featuring voice acting, original song, and hand-drawn animation.

I was the Python coder, game director, writer, game trailer designer/creator, and game webpage designer. I built the game in Ren'Py and ported the computer build to mobile (Android OS).

GameMaker Auto-Battler Game: Gretchen the Wretched (2025)

90s Nickelodeon-like style auto-battler/team builder for PC featuring Full Voice Acting, mini-games, original sound and music, and Hand-drawn animation.

I did all the art assets except player and NPC models. I drew the tile map for 4 distinct game levels, player cards for turn-based battles, menu UI, environmental art, and VSFX animations.

Featured Writing

Peer-reviewed Journal Article: Archives, Decolonization, and The Politics of Tribal Sovereignty (2023)

I argued that archives have an accessibility problem for federal recognition researchers (Indigenous peoples or peers researching archives for the point of gaining/keeping a tribes federal recognition status). This article went on to receive the 2024 Fellows' Ernst Posner Award from the Society of American Archivists.

Op-ed Article: Why the Disconnect and Dissonance of the DAM Fragmentation Crisis Matters (2025)

Published in DAM News (the oldest digital asset management trade publication), I argued that DAMS are fragmented, fragile frameworks that rely on connecting to systems that organizations have no control over or ability to adequately invest in. DAMs that attempt to become an organization’s entire digital ecosystem–the complete set of different digital repositories, productivity apps, and other computer systems–fall short because the cost of maintenance isn’t sustainable or realistic.

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