René Voorburg
Data Specialist
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRené Voorburg is a data specialist with 11+ years of experience turning cultural heritage and web resources into accessible, reusable data services across national institutions and independent projects. He has held senior roles at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and now supports regional archives, combining practical web-archiving and crawl engineering roots with linked-data and product management expertise. Creator of long-running data-driven sites like Vici.org and OmnesViae.org, he blends hands-on harvesting, processing and visualization skills with a drive to remove barriers to information. Comfortable across tools and disciplines, René pairs policy-savvy thinking from early internet advocacy with pragmatic engineering to unlock scholarly and public value from messy datasets.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at Maastricht UniversityMSc / Ir, MSc / Ir at Wageningen UniversityUniversiteit UtrechtVWO, VWO at Christelijk Lyceum Veenendaal
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Github Skills (62)
structured-data10
rdf9
viewer9
schema-org9
json-ld9
shacl8
json-schema8
schema8
simplify7
ingest7
coordinates7
tracks7
rda7
application-profile7
webarchive7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
renevoorburg/omnesviae
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
renevoorburg/gzindexer
Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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