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

• The Unsaid Labor Required for Working Inside a CMS or DAM

  Posted on November 10, 2025

  I’ve been thinking about all the unsaid work involving content management/asset management lately. Here are three I see in my work: (1) You can edit webpages with HTML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript, or Markdown. A lot of roles seem to meld different types of content management together into one role when... [Read More]

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  • DAM
  • Freelance

• Read My Short Horror Story "Do You Like My Art" in My I AM EXHAUSTED BY YOU Zine's Latest Issue

  Posted on November 4, 2025

  I Am Exhausted By You is a zine for sharing my projects (writing, exhibits, proposals, and more) that never got published. This issue features a short horror story called “Do You Like My Art?” intended to be an extension of my meta-creative data science project, Relational Possibilities (2023 - 2024).... [Read More]

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  • Writing
  • Research
  • Video Games

• My Research on Archival Personas and Archivists' Emotional Labor Won the 2025 MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article

  Posted on October 29, 2025

  I won an award for my research on archival personas & the history of emotional labor among archivists! The award committee said it’s an “important and thoughtful consideration of the public perception of archival work through time.” [Read More]

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  • Awards
  • Research
  • Writing

• My New Chapter From IFLA/De Gruyter on the Systems Design Behind an Archival Literacy OER Just Released

  Posted on October 28, 2025

  Sometimes publishing takes a very very long time. My book chapter, “Enhancing Student Transliteracy Through Archives: Designing an OER for Primary Source Mastery” just released! I wrote this in 2021…so it’s not too relevant to the kind of work I’m doing now, but still an interesting read. [Read More]

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  • Research
  • Writing

• Three Ways to Strategically Plan for Data Migrations

  Posted on October 28, 2025

  Data migrations are inevitable, but not often strategically planned for. Here are 3 ways to plan better based on client work. I’m a data consultant, freelance digital asset manager, & indie developer. I’ve led several multi-system data migrations for nonprofits, cultural heritage, film and media, and creatives. [Read More]

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  • Freelance
  • DAM

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