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Joris Pekel

I’m a MA. New Media student at the University of Amsterdam. In november 2009 I graduated as a bachelor theater, film and televisionstudies at the University of Utrecht. After that I started an internship at Kennisland where I worked on a project called Images for the Future.

My main interests go to: Social media and how they can or can’t be useful, online copyright, Creative Commons and privacy issues.

Other than that I’m an improv-theater actor and music lover (check out my famous Dutch eclectic-farmerband “Skitterend Mooi!”)

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The State of Digitisation

Picture “Basement Books” is taken by Vaguery and published under a CC-BY license The last decade, a tremendous effort has been made to make more cultural heritage data, both metadata as well as the actual content, digitally available for...
By Joris Pekel on 08/22/12 Comments Off on The State of Digitisation

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 2

This is part 2 of my report on the Wikimedia conference 2011. The first part can be found here Teun Lucassen – Wikipedia is reliable Almost all the sessions in the cultural heritage track were presentations about...
By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 Comments Off on Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 2

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 1

On Saturday 5 November, the Wikimedia foundation held a conference in Utrecht. I took the opportunity to go there and write this report about it. Because of the size I decided to split it in two parts. The first...
By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 3
e-G8: Governments Acknowledge Importance of Open Internet

e-G8: Governments Acknowledge Importance of Open Internet

Image ‘Mark Zuckerberg elysee france Nicolas Sarkozy e-G8‘ by Admond filed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence Two weeks ago, leaders of several nations gathered to discuss worldwide challenges at the G8 conference. Prior to this event,...
By Joris Pekel on 06/14/11 Comments Off on e-G8: Governments Acknowledge Importance of Open Internet
Data visualization and story telling

Data visualization and story telling

For as long as people have been around, the have used stories to share information, cultural values and experience. Most of the times this is done orally, but even in ancient times, mankind created drawings to visualize their information....
By Joris Pekel on 05/06/11 Comments Off on Data visualization and story telling
What’s that on the map? Problems with geo-visualization

What’s that on the map? Problems with geo-visualization

The last couple of weeks, my data-visualization team and I, have been working on our Europeana project. Europeana is a big heritage-digitization project funded by the European Union. Their goal is to digitize all of Europe’s heritage objects and...
By Joris Pekel on 04/21/11 2

Epic Win. The Ludification of Life

We all have stuff to do. Some stuff we want to do, but most times we just have to. Stuff to keep your finances in order, to keep the people around you happy or just to avoid that the...
By Joris Pekel on 10/29/10 Comments Off on Epic Win. The Ludification of Life

The Holy Grail of Digital Publishing

Digital reading is becoming more and more popular. In 2010, more then 12 million E-readers have been sold and still, this is only the beginning (see for yourself, how many people do you know that own a Kindle or...
By Joris Pekel on 10/21/10 Comments Off on The Holy Grail of Digital Publishing

Twitter as a Social Filter

Because of its simplicity, people have found many ways to make use of their Twitter account. On a personal level, by sharing their daily thoughts and things that annoy them, for gossip purposes, by following celebrities, or on a...
By Joris Pekel on 10/14/10 Comments Off on Twitter as a Social Filter

Promotion or Contribution?

Wikipedia is the biggest online encyclopedia in the world. In the English version one can find almost 3,5 million pages. With more than 640.000 pages, the Dutch version comes in the fifth place, next to Italy and Poland. So...
By Joris Pekel on 10/03/10 Comments Off on Promotion or Contribution?

Social Media Is Not Social

Last week I saw this TEDx presentation by David Armano. In this inspring 16 minutes he talks about how social media itself, is not social. Armano says that it is the people itself that are social. It is time...
By Joris Pekel on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Social Media Is Not Social

Book Review: Bloghelden

The Dutch blogosphere took off only fifteen years ago, but has experienced more than one will do in an entire lifetime. Frank Meeuwsen, who was there when the first Dutch blogs were born, decided this was the right time...
By Joris Pekel on 09/20/10 2

Nasty Old People and a CC Licence

Sweden is famous for lots of reasons. Like for their food, their furniture and their women. They are also known as the biggest pirates in the world. Not on the open sea, but online. The Swedish Piratebay is one...
By Joris Pekel on 09/09/10 2