Carlijn Keijzer, MA
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Biography
Carlijn Keijzer is Policy Advisor Collections and Services and archivist at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. She studied History and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her degree in Archival Science in 2022. At NIOD, she focuses on policy relating to the creation, accessibility, and use of archives, with a particular focus on issues at the intersection of archival science and research. In doing so, she investigates the opportunities and challenges that big data and digital humanities present for the archival sector.
Carlijn collaborated on the project First-Hand War: War Letters (1935–1950), in which the NIOD's collection of war letters was digitized, transcribed, and enriched with the help of artificial intelligence. This project sparked her interest in archival transformations: the way in which documents take on new meanings in different contexts.
In 2025, she and her colleague Milan van Lange co-authored the article 'Tracing Transformations: (Digitized) World War II Correspondence Through the Lens of the Records Continuum Model' in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. In the article, the Record Continuum Model is applied to show how diverse actors - from original archive creators and family curators to digitization teams - influence the way documents are preserved and read.