Curriculum Vitae — and other matters
Professional experience
Center for Humanities Computing (2024 —)
- Chefkonsulent ved faculty of arts på Aarhus University.
My activities are described at my Pure profile.
Center for Humanities Computing (2022 — 2024)
- Data Manager for faculty of arts at Aarhus University.
My activities are described at my Pure profile.
Det Kgl. Bibliotek - The Royal Danish Library (2016 — 2021)
In 2016 Statsbiblioteket/the State and University Library and Det Kongelige Bibliotek/The Royal Danish Library underwent a merger to become the national library of Denmark under the new name of Det Kgl. Bibliotek/The Royal Danish Library.- Specialkonsulent/Special consultant (2016 —2021)
- Project lead at the DeIC National Cultural Heritage Cluster, Det Kgl. Bibliotek. The cluster has since been decommisioned and the website is now closed. An archived version can be found at the Internet Archive: Archived version 2021-06-24 (2016 — 2021)
- Data engineer and research consultant at the DeIC National Cultural Heritage Cluster, Det Kgl. Bibliotek. The cluster has been decommisioned and the website is now closed. An archived version can be found at the Internet Archive: Archived version 2021-06-24 (2016 —2021)
- Digital preservation consultant. See Digital bevaring (2016 —2021)
Statsbiblioteket - The State and University Library, Denmark (2007 — 2015)
- Development consultant (2007 — 2015)
- Specialkonsulent/senior consultant (2015 — 2015)
- Developer on various in-house Java Struts applications (2007 — 2011)
- Consultant and developer at the national identity federation WAYF which was based on the simpleSAMLphp SAML 2.0 authentication application (2008 — 2011)
- Work package lead and developer at the FP7 EU project SCAPE. I worked primarily on Apache Hadoop technologies and data handling (2011 — 2015)
- Project lead at the DeIC National Cultural Heritage Cluster, Statsbiblioteket (2015 — 2016)
- Data engineer and research consultant at the DeIC National Cultural Heritage Cluster, State and University Library. The cluster has been decommisioned and the website is now closed. An archived version can be found at the Internet Archive: Archived version 2021-06-24 (2015 — 2016)
- Digital preservation consultant (2011 — 2016)
CCI Europe (1998 — 2007)
- Systems consultant
- Integration of CCI Europe software systems with existing third party systems, both in-house and on-site at our customers
- Major projects at e.g., The New York Times, Jyllandsposten, Axel Springer Verlag
- Primary areas of responsibility: integration with archive systems, export for online systems and syndication, import from legacy systems, and work flow customization and adaptions to specific newspapers
- Roles: technical consultancy, data analysis, onsite troubleshooting, out-of-the-box solutions, in-house training, etc
Educational qualifications
| Degree | Major/minor | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Science | Chemistry/physics and computer science | University of Aarhus | 1997 |
| Studenter eksamen | Matematisk-fysisk linje | Hobro gymnasium | 1988 |
| Folkeskolens udvidede afgangsprøve | Hadsund skole | 1985 |
Publications, articles, and blogposts published elsewhere
- Kenneth Enevoldsen and Lasse Hansen and Dan S. Nielsen and Rasmus A. F. Egebæk and Søren V. Holm and Martin C. Nielsen and Martin Bernstorff and Rasmus Larsen and Peter B. Jørgensen and Malte Højmark-Bertelsen and Peter B. Vahlstrup and Per Møldrup-Dalum and Kristoffer Nielbo. (2023) Danish Foundation Models
- Baunvig, K. F., Rasmussen, K. S. G., Møldrup-Dalum, P., & Vad, K. (2023). Storage Over Rendition. Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure in the Digital Textual Heritage Sector. I Book of Abstracts Sustainability: Environment, Community, Data Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Seventh Conference (s. 77-79)
- Zierau , E., & Møldrup-Dalum, P. (2021). Making web collections for research Sustainable & Reusable: Possibilities and Challenges experienced. 1. Abstract fra IIPC Genrel Assembly & Web Archiving Conference 2021, Luxembourg, Luxemborg. https://netpreserve.org/ga2021/wac/abstracts/#187
- How we observed an unexpected high peak in the amount of hits in 2013 for ‘kierkegaard’, Toke Eskildsen and Per Møldrup-Dalum, 2020. Blog post at DeiC National Cutlural Heritage Cluster, The Royal Danish Library.
- Chapter 13: Looking back, looking forward: 10 Years of development to collect, preserve and access the Danish web, Ditte Laursen PhD and Per Møldrup-Dalum, 2017. Published in the anthology Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web, Niels Brügger, PhD, professor MSO.
- Laursen, D., & Møldrup-Dalum, P. (2016). Netarkivet 10 år. Revy, 2, 6-9.
- A Weekend With Nanite, Per Møldrup-Dalum, 2014. Blog post at The Open Preservation Foundation
- Bridging the gap between real world repositories and Scalable Preservation Environments. Bolette Ammitzbøll Jurik; Asger Askov Blekinge; Rune Bruun Ferneke-Nielsen; Per Møldrup-Dalum, Digital Libraries, 2014. PDF available here
- D9.3 Characterisation technology, Release 3 + release report William Palmer (British Library), Sven Schlarb (Austrian National Library), Rune Bruun Ferneke- Nielsen, Per Møldrup-Dalum (State & University Library Denmark), Artur Kulmukhametov (Vienna University of Technology), Alan Akbik (Technical University Berlin), 2014
Independent courses and major conferences
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, 2022
- RESAW 2015, Aarhus (Presented a joint keynote with Ditte Laursen)
- IBM BigInsights 2015, Las Vegas, USA
- Digital Libraries 2014, London (Presented a research paper. See under publications)
- Det fleksible uddannelsesforløb - for projektledere og IT-projektledere at Technological Institute, Denmark, 2015
- JAOO for several years, Aarhus
- GOTO con for several years, Aarhus
- Most DeIC conferences since 2016
- Course in Den Lærende organisation at CCI Europe
- C++ course at CCI Europe
- Nine months of military service as a conscript — during peace time and only training. Huge amounts of training
- Have given talks at various seminars and workshops at Danish universities
Skills and interests
To a high degree and presently practiced
- Data engineering
- Data communication
- Data and information analysis using R, specifically the tidyverse
- Data and information analysis using the command line on UNIX-like systems
- Local R advocate
- Wolfram Language/Mathematica
- FAIR Data Principles
- AI ethics and privacy
- Research Data Management
- Information security as defined by e.g. ISO 27001
- Protection of sensitive and confidential data
- Written and spoken English
To lesser degree
- Data science
- Web archiving
- Digital preservation
- Legal considerations on using copyright and privacy protected data
- \(\LaTeX\)
- Programming and data analysis in Python
- The Julia programming language
- Scripting macOS in Applescript
- Understanding of Apache Hadoop and Spark
Book recommondations
- Range
- The Extended Mind
- R for Data Science
- An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
- Ståsteder
- The Daily Stoic
Forgotten knowledge
Sinclair BASIC, Comal-80, GW BASIC, DOS, Trine, Beta, FORTRAN, C, Tcl/Tk, C++, Clojure, Java, Lotus 1•2•3, WordPerfect, speaking Spanish, how to disassemble and assemble an M1 Garand rifle blindfolded, how to perform the Ashihara kumite kata sono yon, how to speak a bit of Japaneese, how to play the saxophone, how to play the "Beatles chords" on guitar, the first 100 digits of π, reciting the Ring Verse by heart, …
Tools
RStudio,
Emacs,
Vi,
IntelliJ IDEA,
R, tidyverse, and sparklyr,
Maxima,
gnuplot,
Mathematica,
Python,
Applescript,
Hortonworks Data Platform,
macOS,
CentOS,
UNIX,
MacBook Pro Air Pro Air and Studio,
iPhone 3S 4S 6S XS 13 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5
TWSBI Diamond 580AL fountain pen,
Waterman Hémisphère fountain pen,
1934 Parker Vacumatic fountain pen and mechanical pencil,
Palomino Blackwing pencils,
Moleskine notebooks (a lot of them),
1972 Olympus OM-1 SLR camera,
1 speed Bianchi bike
…
Personal information
- Married with children
- Keeping a healthy mind in a healthy body while enjoying a pint of real ale and reading a book
- I'd rather run 20km slowly than 5km in a hurry, but also rather lift 120kg four times than 70kg twelve times
- Remembering that an hour of yoga is better than an hour of extra work at the office
- Trying to keep remembering that once I could do a ushiro mawashi tobi geri
- Oh, and memento mori!
Personal opinions
- Big data can crush us if we don't take it seriously
- The resources of the world need to be shared more evenly. Both world-wide and within the so-called rich nations. Still, we must not hinder the technological advancement. We need to be able to fly to Mars and beyond
- Facebook and all the other companies trying to mine our attention by using science and our brains lust for endorphins should be regulated by the governments. The apps and platforms created by these companies will in the future be thought of like we today think and talk about smoking: Why oh why didn't they ban that many years ago?
- AI is here to stay. Either you learn to use it or you mighr be left behind
—Keep Calm And Be Kind—