Chris Dijkshoorn is a technology leader with 13 years of experience who currently heads ICT at the Rijksmuseum, after leading Collection IT since 2019 and previously serving as data manager. He combines a strong AI and linked data research background (PhD work at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) with hands-on engineering—developing the Accurator nichesourcing/crowdsourcing platform and contributing to Linked Data projects at the British Museum and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Chris excels at translating museum collection requirements into pragmatic technical solutions for Linked Data, crowdsourcing and metadata interoperability (CIDOC-CRM), bridging research and production. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a rare mix of academic rigour and operational leadership that helps cultural institutions modernize how they catalog, enrich and share collections.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Politecnico di Milano
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