I'm open to fully remote contract, freelance, and part-time gigs

My books are open! I’m looking for remote freelance and contract work doing database migrations, data assessments, digital projects, development/programming, digital asset management, analytics, or data storytelling.
Portfolio: https://www.decolfutures.com
Email me: danareijerkerk@gmail.com

• Don't Talk To Me Video Game Project Progress To Date

  Posted on January 1, 2026

  Happy New Year! I want to share progress-to-date for a video game project I’ve been working on for the last 8 months. My game, called Don’t Talk To Me, is a Dungeons and Dragons-style turn based battler where you play as a rat lady fighting to get groceries with your... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Video Game
  • Development
  • Projects

• How do GLAMs Use AI and LLMs for Content Management Labor?

  Posted on December 18, 2025

  I’m really interested in how GLAMs are using AI and LLMs (large language models) for content management labor, especially for image identification of people or places and also image subjects/tags/descriptions. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • AI in Cultural Heritage
  • LLMs
  • DAM
  • Descriptions

• Take a break with me! Behold my 2025 year end comic.

  Posted on December 12, 2025

  I took all the wacky, cartoony energy I gathered all year and threw it inside. My favorite part was doodling the caw character in different styles while having fun. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Freelance
  • Data Visualization

• My books are open! To give you ideas of my expertise, here's a summary of my 2025 projects.

  Posted on December 9, 2025

  As a small business owner and a freelancer, I know how to make your systems work for you - whether it be helping you migrate data or digital assets, assess why you have several database systems that don’t talk to each other, or writing reports or slide decks for your... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Freelance

• My Searching for Paumanok Research was Cited in the Library of Congress' Program for Cooperative Cataloging April 10, 2025 Final Report

  Posted on December 7, 2025

  I just found out that my Searching for Paumanok research was cited in the Library of Congress’ Program for Cooperative Cataloging April 10, 2025 Final Report on Metadata Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Research
  • Writing

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