Hans Timmerman

Confidentially sharing a file. It sounds easier than it is. Confidentiality means ensuring the privacy rights of everyone with access to that file are continually safeguarded.…

Europe struggles with innovation. In a market-dominated country like the US, with many venture capitalists, this happens much more easily. In a centrally-led country, an industry…

Getting rich by robbing a bank is more likely than a lifetime of pickpocketing. For the thief, the return on investment is much higher in the first case. The same goes for…

Source archiving blurs the distinction between a library and an archive. The terms "digital library" and "digital archive" refer to two concepts in the field of digital…

AI: The All-Encompassing Future Promise? It’s hard to read an article these days without encountering the transformative power of AI. Challenges and problems seem to vanish with…

Source Archiving is Sustainable. Do you discard an information product after use, or do you preserve it? If you decide to save it, do you store the entire product or only…

The Art of Good Design The conception, design, construction, and maintenance of products and processes require the art of creating elegant, scalable, and lightweight designs. I…

In recent years, Arre Zuurmond served as our government’s commissioner for information management. He is now documenting his findings from that period. He notes that the root…

The concept of Blockchain-enabled Zero Trust Cybersecurity is emerging: not only zero-trust but also continuous process control and registration of the zero-trust system itself.…

The world, on the one hand, lacks sufficient physical storage capabilities to capture all the digital data we produce nowadays. On the other hand, we still need to make and keep…