Johan Oomen

Drs. Johan Oomen is head of the R&D Department of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and researcher at the Web and Media group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2012, he is elected as Network Officer for Europeana and board member of CLICK-NL.
His PhD research at the VU University focuses on how active user engagement can help to establish a more open, smart and connected cultural heritage.
Oomen holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. He is General Secretary of the international DIVERSE network on the use of media in higher education. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and the RTL Nederland. Oomen has given talks at leading conferences, published numerous articles in journals and is lecturer at the ICCROM training course Sound and Image Collections Conservation.