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Fred Truyen

Professor of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven

About me

Fred Truyen is professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven University, where he teaches Information Science, Online Publishing and Digital Cultural Heritage and is currently the program director of the MSc in Digital Humanities. He is the coordinator of Fifties in Europe – Kaleidoscope, technical editor of the peer reviewed journal Image & Narrative, president of Photoconsortium, and is active on ICT at several levels of the university.

Fred Truyen is also a member of the Open Education Consortium and has been involved in many projects on Open Educational Resources, such as Net-CU, OCW EU and LACE, and on projects in digitization of Cultural Heritage, such as RICH, Europeana Photography, Europeana Space and CIVIC Epistemologies.