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

My books are open! I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media (working files, animations, A/V, infographics, fonts, licenses, comics). I'm looking for freelance/consulting work, but I'm also open to contract and part-time gigs.
Portfolio: https://www.decolfutures.com
Email me: danareijerkerk@gmail.com

• 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

• Artificial Intelligence in Digitized Images & Thoughts on the December 3rd International Council on Archives Keynote Presentation

  Posted on December 4, 2025

  I attended the keynote presentation on creation, access, and re-use of digitized cultural heritage assets by the International Council on Archives yesterday. A big point of the keynote was that a digitized image is a representation or interpretation of what the original material looked like shaped by certain decisions like... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Freelance

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