Sandra Fauconnier
Freelance Project Manager at Sandra Fauconnier
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSandra Fauconnier is a freelance project manager and art historian with over two decades of experience at the intersection of culture, new media and open knowledge, and ten years of focused professional practice in project leadership. She has led GLAM partnerships, structured data initiatives for Wikimedia Commons, and steered community-driven open source projects like OpenRefine, combining hands-on delivery with governance and fundraising. Based in Rotterdam, she specializes in making cultural data easy, affordable and resilient (DEAR), advocating for Open Access and practical reuse across libraries, museums and archives. Comfortable bridging volunteers, developers and institutional stakeholders, she brings a rare mix of curatorial expertise and technical product strategy that consistently turns messy cultural data into sustainable, machine-readable resources.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Architecture, BA, Architecture at LUCA School of ArtsMA, Art History, MA, Art History at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (57)
crossword10
openrefine10
python10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
wikimedia10
reconciliation10
java10
data-wrangling10
journalism10
wikidata10
data-analysis10
hugo9
editing8
wikibase8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRefine/CommonsExtension
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
An OpenRefine extension that helps with Wikimedia Commons editing: start projects from Wikimedia Commons categories; Commons-specific GREL functions.
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 8 commits in 26 days
commonswikimediasdcopenrefinewikimedia-commons
OpenRefine/openrefine.org
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Source website for openrefine.org
Contributions:14 reviews, 20 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
hugoopenrefine
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