Curriculum Vitae

Personal details:

• Place and date of birth: Bergen (NH), 20-04-1948

• Marital status: married

Qualifications:

• 1967-72 HTS Electronics in Amsterdam

• 1966-67 MTS Electronics in Alkmaar

• 1963-66 MTS Electrical Engineering in Alkmaar

• 1961-63 LTS Mechanical Engineering in Alkmaar

Work experience:

• 2010-now Web developer of the RUG University Library
  

• 2002-2010 Web developer and coordinator of repositories of the RUG University Library
  
  Digitization of academic information is becoming ever more important. The Digital Library Facilities Department plays an important role in this process. This is the eve of an era when universities will increasingly take on the role of publishers.
  
  This ‘revolution’ is mainly enabled by the development of the World Wide Web.
  
  The WWW has made it easy and cheap for everyone to share material with other internet users. However, until recently it was rather difficult to develop shared services on top of these often database-driven systems to enable similar information to be shared, distributed and made searchable. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) has changed this.

 

• 2001-02 Programmer of Archipol at the RUG University Library
  
  The Archipol project is archiving the websites of the Dutch political parties. The digital archive is available online. The project was carried out by the Documentation Centre for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP) in cooperation with the University Library.
   

• 1991-2001 NMR technician at the GBB research school of the RUG
  
  Part of my job involved instructing students and PhD students in the use of NMR equipment and the related software. I was also responsible for the maintenance of the equipment and I wrote programs to improve and/or simplify the use of the equipment.
  
  Twelve UNIX machines, which I also maintained, were used to manage the equipment and to process the data.
   

• 1973-91 Computer scientist at the RUG department of Inorganic Chemistry
  
  In addition to day-to-day tasks such as instructing students and PhD students in the use of equipment and software and maintaining the equipment, I developed a number of measuring instruments, including:
  - Set-up for measuring electrical conductivity
  - Set-up for measuring the Seebeck effect
  - Set-up for measuring luminescence
  - Set-up for measuring the Hall effect (in a magnetic field of -3 to +3 T)
  All instruments in a temperature range of 4.2 to 400 K.
  
  All measuring instruments were fitted with a modular instrument system for data exchange which I developed and about which I published an article in Elektronica on 20 May 1982.