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 AI (14)

New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work
Reflections on My 2025 Experimental Archives Conference Talk
Connect With the DecolFutures Newsletter
Behind The Scenes at my Talk at the UK National Archives
Upcoming Public Talk at the National Archives
In the Newsletter - Reflecting on my AI Projects from the Last Two Years
I Presented at the DLF Forum - Saying Goodbye to Relational Possibilities in 2024
Come hear me speak about AI, Archives, and Emotions at a free hybrid conference at the Centre for Public History at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland
The Relational Possibilities Project Wins Honorable Mention for the Library Juice Press, the Vattemare Award
Hear About Our Methods for The Relational Possibilities Project
The Relational Possibilities Project Appears in Biblio-Notes
I'm Presenting about AI and Archivists' Emotional Labor in Northern Ireland
I'm presenting my generative AI, video game, art exhibition project at BitCurator Forum

 AI and Cultural Heritage (1)

Faith in the DAM Interface - Dana Reijerkerk on AI, Trust and Cultural Heritage (DAM News Op-Ed)

 AI in Cultural Heritage (1)

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

 AI in Museums (1)

Conference Recap - My Takeaways From MuseumNext's 2026 Museum AI Summit

 AI in healthcare data operations research (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 AR Digital Preservation Challenges (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 ART (1)

Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue

 ART library deco (1)

My Freelance Client ART library deco Won the TDL Award for Excellence

 Affective Archives (2)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

 Agentic AI for DAM (1)

Takeaways From a Talk About Rules-Based Workflows to Agentic AI in DAM Systems

 Algorithmic Bias (1)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium

 Animation (11)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard
Reflections on Doing Art for the 2025 Robot Party Game Jam
Zewers Indie Game Update
Art for Parallax Background and Rat Boy's Idle Walk Animation Done
Art for My New 2D Cozy Horror Game is Coming Along
Goodbye "Hear Me, Hear You," and Hello Top-Down JRPG Game
Hear Me, Hear You is Now Out
Hear Me, Hear You Official Game Trailer is Out on YouTube Now
Play as a monster eager to make NEW FRIENDS
All Are Welcome Video Game Official Trailer Out Now
I'm presenting at the Interactive Film & Media Conference in Toronto, Canada

 Animators (1)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 App (1)

I built an Android App!

 App Development (1)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Archival Training (2)

In the DecolFutures Newsletter - Data Training, Paid Internships, and Community Engagement Opportunities
I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator

 Archives (11)

Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?
Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Reflections on My 2025 Experimental Archives Conference Talk
Connect With the DecolFutures Newsletter
Behind The Scenes at my Talk at the UK National Archives
Upcoming Public Talk at the National Archives
Come hear me speak about AI, Archives, and Emotions at a free hybrid conference at the Centre for Public History at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland

 Archives and The Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence (1)

Chapter One of My Book on Archives, Tribal Politics, and US Sovereignty Violence is Complete

 Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence (1)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival

 Artificial Intelligence (4)

Conference Recap - My Takeaways From MuseumNext's 2026 Museum AI Summit
New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
Recap of What I Learned at the DAM and Museums, Digital Preservation Summit 2026
Books, Bodies, and Bots - Upcoming Talk at the Experimental Archives Conference at Kingston University's School of Art

 Assessment (1)

Looker Dashboard (Data Studio) Project on Costs for Still Image Digitization

 Assessment Services (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!

 Augmented Reality (1)

Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?

 Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 Authenticity and Trust (1)

Faith in the DAM Interface - Dana Reijerkerk on AI, Trust and Cultural Heritage (DAM News Op-Ed)

 Award (4)

Winner of the 2025 Texas Digital Library Award for Excellence
The Relational Possibilities Project Wins Honorable Mention for the Library Juice Press, the Vattemare Award
The Society of American Archivists Officially Announced my Award-Winning Article
I Won the SAA Fellows' Ernst Posner Award For My Writing

 Awards (1)

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

 Behind-the-Scenes (2)

Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic
Behind The Scenes As a Data Consultant in NYC Or How I Use Weird Art To Tell Data Stories And Share My Work

 Black Canvases (2)

Call for Black Canvases Featured on Sea Green Zines Website
Call for Submissions to a New Open Access Black Cultural (Heritage) Zine

 Bloomsbury Book (2)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Chapter One of My Book on Archives, Tribal Politics, and US Sovereignty Violence is Complete

 Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited Book (1)

I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

 Caw Doodle (1)

Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?

 Caw Doodles (6)

Conference Recap - My Takeaways From MuseumNext's 2026 Museum AI Summit
Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic
Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer
Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions
Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic

 Caw OC (1)

Behind-The-Scenes - How Will People Know You Provide Freelance Services If You Don't Promote Yourself?

 Client Work (11)

I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator
Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important
How Return on Investment (ROI) Structures Aren't Compatible with Digital Asset Management (DAM) Labor
How Digital Asset Management Helps With Data Management
Read About My Freelancing Work with ART | library deco in Metropolitan Archivist
How Digital Asset Management Report Templates Save You Time
Grab a copy of a free DAM Project Plan Template
I'm available for remote freelance contracts and projects!
I'm a data freelancer and consultant who provides sociotechnical services
Museum Exhibit on the History of Japanese Artists in NYC Pre-WW2 is Live
Check out my latest webcomic and the ART | library deco newsletter

 Clients (1)

How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services

 Comic (5)

Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic
Behind-The-Scenes - How Will People Know You Provide Freelance Services If You Don't Promote Yourself?
January 5, 2026 DecolFutures Newsetter Issue is Out
As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
Reflections of a Data Professional Comic

 Community Archives (1)

Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

 Conference Talk (1)

Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok

 Conferences (1)

Recap of What I Learned at the DAM and Museums, Digital Preservation Summit 2026

 Consulting (6)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media
New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important
My Database Migration Project Has Officially Ended, Open To New Work

 Creatives (1)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Cultural Heritage (3)

Ways to Work With Me
Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue

 Cultural Heritage Research (1)

Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 DAM (26)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer
Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions
Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic
How much should you charge for digital asset manager and data freelance labor?
April 2026 Issue of the decolFutures Newsletter is Out
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work
Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important
Recap of What I Learned at the DAM and Museums, Digital Preservation Summit 2026
My Database Migration Project Has Officially Ended, Open To New Work
How Return on Investment (ROI) Structures Aren't Compatible with Digital Asset Management (DAM) Labor
Ways Non-Developers Help With Digital Preservation of Code
January 5, 2026 DecolFutures Newsetter Issue is Out
How do GLAMs Use AI and LLMs for Content Management Labor?
The Unsaid Labor Required for Working Inside a CMS or DAM
Three Ways to Strategically Plan for Data Migrations
3 Things to Know About Working with Cloud-Based DAM/CMS
Designing Realistic Data Systems for Multi-departmental Workflows Poster Now Archived on Zenodo
Ever wonder how the back-end of your CMS, DAM, or Website works? I'm Open to Work.
Read About Considerations for Open-Source and Proprietary DAM Solutions in DAM News
As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
How Digital Asset Management Report Templates Save You Time
Grab a copy of a free DAM Project Plan Template

 DAM System UI design (1)

Faith in the DAM Interface - Dana Reijerkerk on AI, Trust and Cultural Heritage (DAM News Op-Ed)

 DAM Upskilling (1)

Takeaways From a Talk About Rules-Based Workflows to Agentic AI in DAM Systems

 Dashboard (1)

Looker Dashboard (Data Studio) Project on Costs for Still Image Digitization

 Data Analysis (1)

How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services

 Data Consultant (3)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!
My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Data Consultant For Hire (3)

Behind-The-Scenes - How Will People Know You Provide Freelance Services If You Don't Promote Yourself?
Behind The Scenes As a Data Consultant in NYC Or How I Use Weird Art To Tell Data Stories And Share My Work
Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

 Data Consultant NYC (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

 Data Consultant in NYC (4)

Behind The Scenes As a Data Consultant in NYC Or How I Use Weird Art To Tell Data Stories And Share My Work
How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services
I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects
Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 Data Consulting (1)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Data Ecosystems (1)

Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important

 Data Freelance Services NYC (1)

Behind-The-Scenes - How Will People Know You Provide Freelance Services If You Don't Promote Yourself?

 Data Freelance Services in NYC (1)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium

 Data Freelancer For Hire (1)

Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic

 Data Freelancer in NYC (2)

Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?
Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic

 Data Management (1)

How Return on Investment (ROI) Structures Aren't Compatible with Digital Asset Management (DAM) Labor

 Data Migration (1)

The Dreaded Database Migration Problem is We Forget Staff Are Users Too

 Data Migration Services (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!

 Data Migrations (1)

How Return on Investment (ROI) Structures Aren't Compatible with Digital Asset Management (DAM) Labor

 Data Projects (1)

I Updated My Portfolio With Detailed Data Projects and Writing Pages

 Data Science (2)

As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
I'm presenting at the Interactive Film & Media Conference in Toronto, Canada

 Data Visualization (3)

Looker Dashboard (Data Studio) Project on Costs for Still Image Digitization
Take a break with me! Behold my 2025 year end comic.
New Newsletter Issue - Look at How Cool Your Data Can be Presented

 Database Migrations (1)

How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services

 Decolonization (2)

Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)
Issue 4 of the DecolFutures Newsletter is Out!

 Decolonization Research (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 Descriptions (1)

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

 Dev Log (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Development (3)

Developer Progress on Game Menus and Characters for My Dungeons-and-Dragons Battler, Don't Talk To Me
Ways Non-Developers Help With Digital Preservation of Code
Don't Talk To Me Video Game Project Progress To Date

 Digital Asset Managemement Consulting (1)

How to Self-Promote When Your Data Work Isn't Visual

 Digital Asset Management (8)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer
Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions
Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic
Takeaways From a Talk About Rules-Based Workflows to Agentic AI in DAM Systems
April 2026 Issue of the decolFutures Newsletter is Out
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
In the Newsletter - Different Sectors Use Different Words to Describe Adding Metadata

 Digital Asset Management Services (3)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!
How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services

 Digital Asset Manager (1)

How much should you charge for digital asset manager and data freelance labor?

 Digital Object Authenticity Working Group (1)

Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 Digital Preservation (2)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Ways Non-Developers Help With Digital Preservation of Code

 Digital Product Direction and Management Services (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!

 Digital Projects (1)

Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important

 Don'T Talk To Me (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Education (2)

How Digital Asset Management Report Templates Save You Time
Grab a copy of a free DAM Project Plan Template

 Freelance (46)

Chapter One of My Book on Archives, Tribal Politics, and US Sovereignty Violence is Complete
Takeaways From a Talk About Rules-Based Workflows to Agentic AI in DAM Systems
How to Self-Promote When Your Data Work Isn't Visual
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media
New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important
Recap of What I Learned at the DAM and Museums, Digital Preservation Summit 2026
My Database Migration Project Has Officially Ended, Open To New Work
Take a break with me! Behold my 2025 year end comic.
My books are open! To give you ideas of my expertise, here's a summary of my 2025 projects.
Artificial Intelligence in Digitized Images & Thoughts on the December 3rd International Council on Archives Keynote Presentation
2025 Year-End Comic Sneak Peak
Why the Disconnect & Dissonance of the DAM Fragmentation Crisis Matters
Why DAM, CMS, and Databases Should be Concerned with Cloudflare's Outage Yesterday
3 Ways to Make Your Data Work Visible
I'm Looking for Remote Freelance, Part-Time, and Contract Work
The Unsaid Labor Required for Working Inside a CMS or DAM
Three Ways to Strategically Plan for Data Migrations
3 Things to Know About Working with Cloud-Based DAM/CMS
Six Projects I Worked on This Year for Portfolio Day
Design Thinking in 4 Ways - Data Assessment Edition
Unspoken Tasks for a Data Migration
Growing my Indie Developer Skills
Work in Progress For My New Dungeons-And-Dragons-Style Game Titled Don't Talk To Me
I Updated My Portfolio and Added a New Page for My Video Game Projects
Read My Exhibitor Interview Published For the 2024 SuperFEST Game Festival
Designing Realistic Data Systems for Multi-departmental Workflows Poster Now Archived on Zenodo
Ever wonder how the back-end of your CMS, DAM, or Website works? I'm Open to Work.
My Freelance Client ART library deco Won the TDL Award for Excellence
As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
Story-Driven Psychological Horror Visual Novel Late Night Surfing Launches Today on Itch.io
How Digital Asset Management Helps With Data Management
Read About My Freelancing Work with ART | library deco in Metropolitan Archivist
How Digital Asset Management Report Templates Save You Time
Grab a copy of a free DAM Project Plan Template
I'm available for remote freelance contracts and projects!
I'm a data freelancer and consultant who provides sociotechnical services
Get the TL;DR of Recognition Politics in the US
Museum Exhibit on the History of Japanese Artists in NYC Pre-WW2 is Live
Check out my latest webcomic and the ART | library deco newsletter
I finished a costs of digitization data science project
Meet the decol Futures Brand

 Freelance DAM Services (1)

Faith in the DAM Interface - Dana Reijerkerk on AI, Trust and Cultural Heritage (DAM News Op-Ed)

 Freelance Data Services (6)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!
How much should you charge for digital asset manager and data freelance labor?
How I Use OC Caw Doodles To Promote My Freelance Data Services
In the DecolFutures Newsletter - Data Training, Paid Internships, and Community Engagement Opportunities
Ways Non-Developers Help With Digital Preservation of Code

 Freelance Data Services NYC (3)

Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer
Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions
Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic

 Freelance Data Services in NYC (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Freelance Digital Asset Manager (2)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day
My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Freelance Survey Researcher (1)

Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 Freelance Technical Writing Services (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 Freelance Writing (1)

Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)

 Full-Stack Development Services (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!

 FullStack Developer (2)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day
My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Game Jam (4)

Reflections on Doing Art for the 2025 Robot Party Game Jam
I'm the Main Artist in the 2025 Robot Party Game Jam
The Player Reviews for Late Night Surfing Are In
Late Night Surfing Nominated for Best Thumbnail in the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam

 Gen Zers (1)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium

 GenAI (2)

In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work
Recap of What I Learned at the DAM and Museums, Digital Preservation Summit 2026

 GenZers (1)

Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

 Godot (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Indie Developer (4)

Indie Dev Log - New Art Assets
New WIP Art Assets Include a Polaroid, Backgrounds, and Dark Vibes
Zewers Indie Game Update
Art for Parallax Background and Rat Boy's Idle Walk Animation Done

 Indie Game (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Indie Games (1)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Indigenous Archives (1)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival

 Indigenous Collection Management (1)

Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)

 Indigenous Relations in Archives (1)

Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)

 Industry News (1)

Industry Insights for Web Accessibility in GLAM

 LLMs (1)

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

 Libraries (1)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Museum Exhibit Design (1)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Museums (1)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Networking (1)

Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic

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April 2026 Issue of the decolFutures Newsletter is Out
In the DecolFutures Newsletter - Data Training, Paid Internships, and Community Engagement Opportunities
In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work
In the DecolFutures News - How My Technical Writing on Indigenous Long Island Got Into Last Year's Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging Report
January 5, 2026 DecolFutures Newsetter Issue is Out
In the DecolFutures News - Cloudflare and AWS Outages, DAM/CMS Tech Stacks, and Places to Search for Writing Accolades
In the DecolFutures News - 3 Ways to Build Your Data Portfolio, Game Jam Doodles, And More
In the DecolFutures News - Game Jams, Art Critic Fellowships, And More
In the DecolFutures News - Don't Talk To Me Behind the Scenes and Curated Decolonization News
In the DecolFutures News - I Am Exhausted By You Zine and 5 Funded Data Fellowship Opportunities
In the DecolFutures News - Behind-the-Scenes, Art Critic Essay Prize Contest, and Portfolio Piece Ideas
In the DecolFutures News - Art Writing Prize, Research Fellowship, and Data Tools for Libraries, Archives, and Research
In the decolFutures Newsletter - How to Start Publishing Your Data Work
In DecolFutures News - Yale's New Metadata Guidelines, Taxonomy Bootcamps, and Behind-the-Scenes Dev Adventures
In DecolFutures News - Mid-Career Remote Fellowship, Data Skills Promo, and Archivist Publishing Insights
In decolFutures news- An Online Curatorial Class, My Article in DAM News, and Doodles for My Next Indie Video Game
New Newsletter Just Dropped
In the Newsletter - Fall is for Self-Reflection
In the Newsletter - Different Sectors Use Different Words to Describe Adding Metadata
In the Newsletter - Data Work is Storytelling, Learn to Tell Good Ones
New Newsletter Just Dropped - Servers, More Game Jams, and Data as Dev Work?
New decolFutures Newsletter - Math is Your Data Nerd Best Friend
Should You Join a Professional Group?
New Newsletter Issue - Look at How Cool Your Data Can be Presented
The Dreaded Database Migration Problem is We Forget Staff Are Users Too
July Issue of the DecolFutures Newsletter is Now Out
Issue 4 of the DecolFutures Newsletter is Out!

 Op-Ed Writing (1)

Faith in the DAM Interface - Dana Reijerkerk on AI, Trust and Cultural Heritage (DAM News Op-Ed)

 Open Access (1)

Read About Considerations for Open-Source and Proprietary DAM Solutions in DAM News

 Open To Work (1)

My Books Are Open - I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media

 Open to Freelance Work (1)

I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects

 Portfolio (1)

I Updated My Portfolio and Added a New Page for My Video Game Projects

 Project (2)

New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator

 Projects (23)

My Database Migration Project Has Officially Ended, Open To New Work
Don't Talk To Me Video Game Project Progress To Date
Read My Exhibitor Interview Published For the 2024 SuperFEST Game Festival
Call for Black Canvases Featured on Sea Green Zines Website
My Freelance Client ART library deco Won the TDL Award for Excellence
Call for Submissions to a New Open Access Black Cultural (Heritage) Zine
New Issue of Newsletter Out Now
New Data Project with Open Submissions by The Creative CoLab Launches March 5th
Connect With the DecolFutures Newsletter
Behind The Scenes at my Talk at the UK National Archives
Upcoming Public Talk at the National Archives
Behind-the-Scenes New Pixel Platformer Game In the Works
Over 200 Downloads of My Indie Game Demo For Late Night Surfing
In the Newsletter - Reflecting on my AI Projects from the Last Two Years
I Presented at the DLF Forum - Saying Goodbye to Relational Possibilities in 2024
I built an Android App!
I'm Bringing TV Reruns to the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam
I Test Out Making a JRPG in GameMaker With My Latest Game Jam Project
The Relational Possibilities Project Wins Honorable Mention for the Library Juice Press, the Vattemare Award
My month of 4 game jams and what's next for my indie game dev adventure
Using the IIIF Workbench to Make a Dope Black Visual Archive
2023 NaMoWriMo Novel Writing Challenge Complete!
Full Release of "All Are Welcome" Video Game

 Public Speaking (12)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
Reflections on My 2025 Experimental Archives Conference Talk
Books, Bodies, and Bots - Upcoming Talk at the Experimental Archives Conference at Kingston University's School of Art
As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
I Presented at the DLF Forum - Saying Goodbye to Relational Possibilities in 2024
Come hear me speak about AI, Archives, and Emotions at a free hybrid conference at the Centre for Public History at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland
Hear About Our Methods for The Relational Possibilities Project
I'm Presenting about AI and Archivists' Emotional Labor in Northern Ireland
I'm presenting at the Interactive Film & Media Conference in Toronto, Canada
I'm presenting my generative AI, video game, art exhibition project at BitCurator Forum
Upcoming October 2023 Conference Presentations

 Publications (10)

Behind-The-Scenes - How Will People Know You Provide Freelance Services If You Don't Promote Yourself?
Introducing My New Zine Project - I AM EXAUSTED BY YOU, A zine to share my unpublished work
Designing Realistic Data Systems for Multi-departmental Workflows Poster Now Archived on Zenodo
Call for Submissions - Black Canvases Featured on the RBMS News Blog
Publication Date Announced for My Book Chapter on Transliteracy in Archival Teaching
Connect With the DecolFutures Newsletter
Behind The Scenes at my Talk at the UK National Archives
Upcoming Public Talk at the National Archives
New Research Drop - Flexible Work Empowers (flexible work arrangements make work more inclusive)
Read For Free - Research on Removing Knowledge Barriers in Collection Management

 RFPs (1)

Freelancers and RFPs - The Four Phases Comic

 Remote Data Consultant in Metro NYC (1)

My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Research (39)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?
Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)
Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away
Chapter One of My Book on Archives, Tribal Politics, and US Sovereignty Violence is Complete
In the DecolFutures Newsletter - Data Training, Paid Internships, and Community Engagement Opportunities
I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
My Searching for Paumanok Research was Cited in the Library of Congress' Program for Cooperative Cataloging April 10, 2025 Final Report
Read My Short Horror Story "Do You Like My Art" in My I AM EXHAUSTED BY YOU Zine's Latest Issue
My Research on Archival Personas and Archivists' Emotional Labor Won the 2025 MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article
My New Chapter From IFLA/De Gruyter on the Systems Design Behind an Archival Literacy OER Just Released
Read My Chapter on Open Access Mandates and Indigenous Materials on Zenodo
Reflections on My 2025 Experimental Archives Conference Talk
Books, Bodies, and Bots - Upcoming Talk at the Experimental Archives Conference at Kingston University's School of Art
I Am Exhausted By You Vol.2 Zine Out Now
Introducing My New Zine Project - I AM EXAUSTED BY YOU, A zine to share my unpublished work
Designing Realistic Data Systems for Multi-departmental Workflows Poster Now Archived on Zenodo
Winner of the 2025 Texas Digital Library Award for Excellence
Publication Date Announced for My Book Chapter on Transliteracy in Archival Teaching
New Research Drop - Flexible Work Empowers (flexible work arrangements make work more inclusive)
Read For Free - Research on Removing Knowledge Barriers in Collection Management
My Book Chapter on Personas, Archives and Emotional Labor Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
In the Newsletter - Reflecting on my AI Projects from the Last Two Years
I Presented at the DLF Forum - Saying Goodbye to Relational Possibilities in 2024
Hear About Our Methods for The Relational Possibilities Project
The Relational Possibilities Project Appears in Biblio-Notes
Get the TL;DR of Recognition Politics in the US
I'm Presenting about AI and Archivists' Emotional Labor in Northern Ireland
I'm presenting at the Interactive Film & Media Conference in Toronto, Canada
I'm presenting my generative AI, video game, art exhibition project at BitCurator Forum
Latest Publication - The American Archivist Fall/Winter 2023 issue
Issues in Authority Control DLF Blog Post
Latest Publication - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Upcoming October 2023 Conference Presentations

 Social Media Algorithms (3)

Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away
I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok

 Social Media Platforms (1)

Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium

 Software Development (2)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard
My Favorite Women-Led Data Projects this 2026 International Womens Day

 Sovereignty Violence (2)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

 Spring Fever Comic (3)

Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer
Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions
Introducing Spring Fever A Data Professional Haunted House Comic

 Still Image Authenticity Research (1)

Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 Still Image Digitization (1)

Looker Dashboard (Data Studio) Project on Costs for Still Image Digitization

 Storyboarding (1)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard

 Survey (1)

Use Case Survey for Expressing Authenticity in Heritage Digital Objects is Open

 Sysadmin (1)

Why Decomputing and Investing in System Maintenance and Repair is Worthwhile

 Systems in Cultural Heritage (1)

Takeaways From a Talk About Rules-Based Workflows to Agentic AI in DAM Systems

 Technical Writing (2)

Behind-the-Scenes - What is Dana Working on?
I finished a costs of digitization data science project

 Technical Writing Services (2)

Ways to Work With Me
Wondering how we can work together? Here's how!

 The Creative CoLab (4)

My Freelance Client ART library deco Won the TDL Award for Excellence
Call for Submissions to a New Open Access Black Cultural (Heritage) Zine
New Issue of Newsletter Out Now
New Data Project with Open Submissions by The Creative CoLab Launches March 5th

 UI Design (1)

I'm Bringing TV Reruns to the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam

 UX Design (1)

Industry Insights for Web Accessibility in GLAM

 Upskilling (1)

Conference Recap - My Takeaways From MuseumNext's 2026 Museum AI Summit

 Utility Tool (1)

How to Self-Promote When Your Data Work Isn't Visual

 Video Game (33)

Don't Talk To Me Video Game Project Progress To Date
Reflections on Doing Art for the 2025 Robot Party Game Jam
Growing my Indie Developer Skills
I'm the Main Artist in the 2025 Robot Party Game Jam
Work in Progress For My New Dungeons-And-Dragons-Style Game Titled Don't Talk To Me
Video Game Dev Update - WIPs (Works in Progress)
Month of May's Game Dev Progress
Indie Dev Log - New Art Assets
New WIP Art Assets Include a Polaroid, Backgrounds, and Dark Vibes
Zewers Game Dev Log - April 22, 2025
Zewers Indie Game Update
Art for Parallax Background and Rat Boy's Idle Walk Animation Done
Art for My New 2D Cozy Horror Game is Coming Along
Behind-the-Scenes New Pixel Platformer Game In the Works
The Player Reviews for Late Night Surfing Are In
Late Night Surfing Nominated for Best Thumbnail in the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam
Over 200 Downloads of My Indie Game Demo For Late Night Surfing
I built an Android App!
Story-Driven Psychological Horror Visual Novel Late Night Surfing Launches Today on Itch.io
A Friday the 13th Teaser For Late Night Surfing
I'm Bringing TV Reruns to the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam
I Test Out Making a JRPG in GameMaker With My Latest Game Jam Project
Goodbye "Hear Me, Hear You," and Hello Top-Down JRPG Game
Hear Me, Hear You is Now Out
Hear Me, Hear You Official Game Trailer is Out on YouTube Now
New Profile Photo by Esskaden
My month of 4 game jams and what's next for my indie game dev adventure
Play a cozy game (I do non-horror now)!
Play as a monster eager to make NEW FRIENDS
All Are Welcome Video Game Official Trailer Out Now
I'm presenting my generative AI, video game, art exhibition project at BitCurator Forum
Announcing "Moonlight" my next upcoming video game
Full Release of "All Are Welcome" Video Game

 Video Games (5)

First Art Assets are in Godot and Working on an Animation Storyboard
Developer Progress on Game Menus and Characters for My Dungeons-and-Dragons Battler, Don't Talk To Me
Read My Short Horror Story "Do You Like My Art" in My I AM EXHAUSTED BY YOU Zine's Latest Issue
I Updated My Portfolio and Added a New Page for My Video Game Projects
Read My Exhibitor Interview Published For the 2024 SuperFEST Game Festival

 Web Accessibility (1)

Industry Insights for Web Accessibility in GLAM

 Writing (37)

Book Research at The Manhattan Film Festival
Recap of My Talk at the Billy Joel Symposium
Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)
Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away
Chapter One of My Book on Archives, Tribal Politics, and US Sovereignty Violence is Complete
I'm Open to Freelance Technical Writing Projects
Official Program Posted for the Billy Joel Symposium at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame - I'm Speaking on Gen Zers Affective Archives Over TikTok
New White Paper Published on AI in Healthcare Data Operations
Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue
I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
My Searching for Paumanok Research was Cited in the Library of Congress' Program for Cooperative Cataloging April 10, 2025 Final Report
Why the Disconnect & Dissonance of the DAM Fragmentation Crisis Matters
Read My Short Horror Story "Do You Like My Art" in My I AM EXHAUSTED BY YOU Zine's Latest Issue
My Research on Archival Personas and Archivists' Emotional Labor Won the 2025 MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article
My New Chapter From IFLA/De Gruyter on the Systems Design Behind an Archival Literacy OER Just Released
Read My Chapter on Open Access Mandates and Indigenous Materials on Zenodo
I Am Exhausted By You Vol.2 Zine Out Now
In the decolFutures Newsletter - How to Start Publishing Your Data Work
Read About Considerations for Open-Source and Proprietary DAM Solutions in DAM News
As the Crow Flies 2024 Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
My Book Chapter on Personas, Archives and Emotional Labor Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Should You Join a Professional Group?
New Newsletter Issue - Look at How Cool Your Data Can be Presented
The Society of American Archivists Officially Announced my Award-Winning Article
The Dreaded Database Migration Problem is We Forget Staff Are Users Too
Goodbye "Hear Me, Hear You," and Hello Top-Down JRPG Game
Read About My Freelancing Work with ART | library deco in Metropolitan Archivist
July Issue of the DecolFutures Newsletter is Now Out
Hear About Our Methods for The Relational Possibilities Project
I Won the SAA Fellows' Ernst Posner Award For My Writing
The Relational Possibilities Project Appears in Biblio-Notes
Get the TL;DR of Recognition Politics in the US
Reflections of a Data Professional Comic
Latest Publication - The American Archivist Fall/Winter 2023 issue
2023 NaMoWriMo Novel Writing Challenge Complete!
Issues in Authority Control DLF Blog Post
Latest Publication - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

 Zewers (1)

Video Game Dev Update - WIPs (Works in Progress)

 Zewers Game (5)

Indie Dev Log - New Art Assets
New WIP Art Assets Include a Polaroid, Backgrounds, and Dark Vibes
Zewers Game Dev Log - April 22, 2025
Zewers Indie Game Update
Art for Parallax Background and Rat Boy's Idle Walk Animation Done

 Zine (4)

I Am Exhausted By You Vol.2 Zine Out Now
Introducing My New Zine Project - I AM EXAUSTED BY YOU, A zine to share my unpublished work
Call for Black Canvases Featured on Sea Green Zines Website
Call for Submissions to a New Open Access Black Cultural (Heritage) Zine

 archives (1)

In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work

 cloud databases (1)

In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work

 development (1)

Why Decomputing and Investing in System Maintenance and Repair is Worthwhile

 digital asset management (1)

In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work

 digitization (1)

In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work

 freelance (1)

Why Decomputing and Investing in System Maintenance and Repair is Worthwhile

 iSpring LMS (1)

I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator