Jakub Řihák
Head Of Digital Repositories Department at Ústřední knihovna Univerzity Karlovy / Library of Charles University
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolJakub Řihák is a library technology leader with 11 years' experience building and operating digital repositories and digitization workflows, currently heading the Digital Repositories Department at the Library of Charles University in Prague. He combines a Master's in Knowledge Engineering with hands-on expertise in DSpace administration, OCR processing, and automation of ingestion pipelines for theses and institutional content. Jakub has driven projects bridging local digitization efforts with pan-European initiatives like Europeana, reflecting a knack for integrating legacy library processes with modern, scalable repository systems. Colleagues know him for turning complex metadata and workflow requirements into reliable, auditable pipelines that improve discovery and access across academic collections.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Knowledge Engineering, Master's degree, Knowledge Engineering at University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Informatics and StatisticsBachelor, Information studies and librarianship, Bachelor, Information studies and librarianship at Charles University in Prague
Czech, English, Slovak, Russian, Latin
Github Skills (9)
open-access10
java9
rest-api9
dspace8
sis7
open-source6
synchronization5
cython1
fedora1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UKUK-Repository-Dept/balikator-ds-theses
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Automatic theses synchronization from Charles University SIS to DSpace repository.
Contributions:123 PRs, 107 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 6 months
charlessynchronizationthesesdspacesis
jrihak/ukuk-publications-dspace6
Jul 2020 - Jun 2026
Charles University Publications Repository - DSpace 6
Contributions:736 pushes, 22 branches in 6 years
dspace
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