Hans Timmerman

The new Archives Act of 2026 is a necessary step in modernising our archival management and supports the realisation of a federated data system. The focus on digital…

Last week (2013), I attended the IT Innovation Day, successfully organized by IDG. In addition to the presentations, which focused on the crisis and the opportunities it presents,…

In the paper-based era, before computers transformed our daily lives, paper was the primary medium for information. Letters and documents were handwritten, typed, or printed.…

Ingenious means clever or inventive. The Old High German word firnuft referred to "perceiving or observing with intelligence." Today, we associate the term "innovator" with a…

This blog explores the evolution of information management in the digital age. Physical information products like books have clear limitations in sharing and accessibility,…

As in Goethe’s ballad, the story begins with a promise: a powerful tool to ease our workload. But without mastery, technology threatens to overwhelm us. In recent decades, we have…

In my first blog in 2010, I wrote about "the new normal" being digital. At the end of that year, I discussed resolutions to achieve more standardization, simplicity, mobility, and…

Technical debt doesn’t have to be inevitable, nor is it inherently negative. On the contrary, it can present an opportunity for a leap forward: a bold step toward modernizing…

Technical debt refers to the maintenance backlog, whether in housing, energy infrastructure, bridges, or digital systems. Without timely investment, this backlog inevitably leads…

Almost everyone has played with Lego at some point: those colorful, interlocking bricks that allow you to build anything from a simple house to a complex robot. Lego originated as…