[OpenGLAM] Introduction of new OpenGLAM Community Manager

Tue Dec 3 20:18:28 UTC 2013

Welcome Lieke!

-Sarah

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger at okfn.org>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> My name is Lieke Ploeger and from December onwards I'm working at the Open
> Knowledge Foundation as the new Community Manager for the OpenGLAM
> initiative. I'm very excited to help boost free and open access to online
> cultural heritage material through this network, and look forward to
> collaborating with you!
>
> Before joining OKF, I've worked at the National Library of the Netherlands
> as a project leader in the Research department. Since 2008 I was involved
> in large-scale European research projects in the areas of digitisation and
> digital preservation, such as IMPACT, Europeana Newspapers and SCAPE.
> Especially through IMPACT, a project focused on improving access to
> historical text material, I've experienced the value that large sets of
> digital data can bring researchers in areas such as language technology,
> document analysis and digital humanities.
>
> In this new position, I look forward to using my existing experience in
> community building, external communication and digital cultural heritage to
> extend the OpenGLAM network of cultural heritage professionals. Concretely,
> this means that I will be co-editing the OpenGLAM blog, managing the
> OpenGLAM social media channels, organising future workshops and events and
> identifying and managing new partnerships and collaboration opportunities.
> All this of course to support the great work you are all doing to build a
> cultural commons!
>
> Feel free to contact me in case you have any questions or want to know
> more about possible collaboration.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Lieke Ploeger.
>
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>
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*Sarah Stierch*
*Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedian*
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