Erik Buelinckx is a scientific researcher at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA). He holds Master degrees in “Information and Library Science”, “Documentation and Library Science” and “Art History and Archaeology”. His main art historical research theme is the relation between anarchism and art from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, mainly (but not only) in Belgium. He has an experience spanning almost twenty years on the different levels which constitute the creation, maintenance and conservation of digital (meta)data about cultural heritage. He works in the Department of Documentation where he is responsible for documentary image databases and digitization projects. He has experience in European projects (DCH-RP, Partage Plus, AthenaPlus, Preforma, Iperion & E-RIHS, Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope, Pagode Europeana-China, etc). He is a member of the Belgian National Consultation Panel for Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI), of DARIAH.BE, of the Europeana Members Council (2nd term), of the Time Machine consortium and he organises and participates in several interregional and international collaborations on multilingual thesauri in the field of cultural heritage. He is involved in the Belgian HESCIDA-project (HEritage SCIence Data Archive, 2019-2022) which serves as a pilot for the creation of interconnected digital repositories for heritage science data in E-RIHS.
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