Saskia Scheltjens
Rijksmuseum Head of Research Services
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Saskia Scheltjens (BE/NL, 1970) is currently Head of the Research Services Department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This relatively new department is responsible for all information and data about the collection, including the Rijksmuseum Research Library, the Collection Information department, the Rijksmuseum Archive, Collection IT and the Public Information Services department. Together with her team she is working on tools and services for researchers on top of extremely hybrid, rich and open collection data. She is fascinated by the interdisciplinary possibilities and responsabilities of digital research and a strong advocate for FAIR GLAM collection data and - systems within the digital heritage world (november 2020).