Inge Hofsink

Contact

• function: Metadata Specialist Digital Preservation
• department: Digital Preservation department
• e-mail: [email protected]

• LinkedIn: Inge Hofsink

   

Expertises

Inge operates on the cutting edge of content and technology, maintains an overview but also has attention to detail and finds the interaction between theory and practice a challenge. Her areas of expertise are:

• digital preservation (OAIS)
• metadata standards: METS, PREMIS, MODS, DC, MPEG21-DIDL, MIX, ALTO, TEI
• models: PREMIS, OAIS-Information model
• modelling information in processes
• preservation within the organisation

Network and cooperation

• METS Editorial Board
• Rosetta Working Group
• Werking group WISH/EduStandaard
• Digital Preservation Coalition

• Working group WISH/EduStandaard

   

   

Publications

• Inge Hofsink en Trond Teigen (20 januari 2026). Joint preservation workshop between KBNL and NLN. DPC Blog. https://www.dpconline.org/blog/joint-preservation-workshop-between-kbnl-and-nln
• Hofsink, I. (2024). It Could Happen to You: Thirty Years of Digital Preservation in an Ever-changing Organization. iPRES 2024. https://ipres2024.pubpub.org/pub/3xr324r3 (paper)
• Elkiss, A., Bredenberg, K., Hofsink, I., Lehtonen, J., Nef, A., Steinke, T., & Wendler, R. (2024). Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Version 2. International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), Ghent, Belgium. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13646107
• Bredenberg, K., Elkiss, A., Hofsink, I., Lehtonen, J., Nef, A., Steinke, T., & Wendler, R. (2022). Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Version 2_20220914. iPRES2022.  https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6SEZX
• Bredenberg, K., Elkiss, A., Hofsink, I., Lehtonen, J., Nef, A., Steinke, T., & Wendler, R. (2022). White paper Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) Version 2.  https://mets.github.io/METS2_whitepaper.html