Menno van Zaanen is a professor in Digital Humanities at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), which is hosted at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Before that, he has worked at Tilburg University (Tilburg, the Netherlands), Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), and the University of  Amsterdam (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). He has an MSc in computer science (Vrije University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and an MA in computational linguistics (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

His work focuses on applying language resources and boosting the field of Digital Humanities in South Africa. He has (co)organized a number of conferences and workshops, e.g., Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshops (co-located with a.o., LREC, EACL), Digital Humanities in Southern Africa (DHASA) conference. He is currently the president of DHASA and a member of the Constituent Organizations Board (COB) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), a member of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL) advisory board and a member of the CODATA-RDA South Africa advisory board. He is an editor in chief of the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), a member of the Routledge Open Research editorial advisory board, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD).

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