Erwin Verbruggen

Erwin Verbruggen is an experienced project lead at Q42, having led the Rijksmuseum web team for the past four years. His primary focus over the past eighteen months has been the development of the museum’s collection online website, with a renewed Rijksstudio toolbox powered by linked open data and AI.

Erwin Verbruggen will be speaking at the Digital Collections Summit 2025 :

Behind the Rijksmuseum new Online Collection

As a successor to the then revolutionary Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum presents the new innovative Collection online. In this presentation, you will learn how we arrived at the ‘Infinite Rijksmuseum’ concept from there. How to deploy Open Linked Data for a immersive visual collection experience, stimulating infinite finding and discover? What can be the role of AI? How to let visitors tell their own stories in inspiring formats, like a virtual Gallery of Honour? How do you market an Online Collection through an omnichannel brand campaign? We also focus on the lessons learned, especially regarding the Open Linked Data search system.