--- title: EIDR’s Kroon Tackles Data Curation at DAMA Days description: Richard Kroon, senior director of technical operations for EIDR, brought his insights to a crowd Oct. 9 at the DAMA Days 2026 event. image: https://www.eidr.org/hubfs/DAMA%20DAYS%20ON%20STAGE.png --- [Skip to content](https://www.eidr.org/blog/eidrs-kroon-tackles-data-curation-at-dama-days#main-content) [![](https://www.eidr.org/hs-fs/hubfs/EIDRlogotrans-1.png?width=167&height=50&name=EIDRlogotrans-1.png)](https://www.eidr.org/) - [Our Work](https://www.eidr.org/our-work) Show submenu for Our Work - [Unique Identifiers](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#unique-identifiers) - [Media Supply Chain](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#media-supply-chain) - [Discoverability](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#discoverability) - [Content Authenticity](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#content-authenticity) - [Media Distribution](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#media-distribution) - [Metadata](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#metadata) - [Standards & Interoperability](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#standards-interoperability) - [Use Cases](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#use-cases) - Get Involved Show submenu for Get Involved - [Join EIDR](https://www.eidr.org/join) - [Pricing](https://www.eidr.org/pricing) - [Opt In or Out](https://www.eidr.org/join-the-mailing-list) - [Request a Speaker](https://www.eidr.org/request-a-speaker) - About Us Show submenu for About Us - [Organization](https://www.eidr.org/organization) - [How We Work](https://www.eidr.org/how-we-work) - [Participating Companies](https://www.eidr.org/eidr-participants) - [Board of Directors](https://www.eidr.org/board-of-directors) - [Meet Our Team](https://www.eidr.org/our-team) - [Schedule](https://www.eidr.org/schedule) - [FAQ](https://www.eidr.org/faq) - News Show submenu for News - [InsEIDR News](https://www.eidr.org/blog) - [2026 APM Presentations](https://www.eidr.org/apm-2026) - Members Show submenu for Members - [Documentation](https://eidrdotorg.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EKB) - [Submit a Help Desk Ticket](https://eidrdotorg.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals) - Current Members Show submenu for Current Members - [Attend Training](https://calendly.com/eidrtraining/eidr-user-training) - [Causeway Login](https://members.eidr.org/site/login?return=%2Fwg%2Fmembers%2Fworkgroup%2Fhome) - [Join a Working Group](https://share.hsforms.com/1nvRMxIK5TgyScT05Gcn6xgcda7r) - [Registry Login](https://ui.eidr.org/auth/signin/eidr) - Prospective Members Show submenu for Prospective Members - [Onboarding Process](https://www.eidr.org/onboarding-process) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Our Work](https://www.eidr.org/our-work) Show submenu for Our Work - [Unique Identifiers](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#unique-identifiers) - [Media Supply Chain](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#media-supply-chain) - [Discoverability](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#discoverability) - [Content Authenticity](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#content-authenticity) - [Media Distribution](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#media-distribution) - [Metadata](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#metadata) - [Standards & Interoperability](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#standards-interoperability) - [Use Cases](https://www.eidr.org/our-work/#use-cases) - Get Involved Show submenu for Get Involved - [Join EIDR](https://www.eidr.org/join) - [Pricing](https://www.eidr.org/pricing) - [Opt In or Out](https://www.eidr.org/join-the-mailing-list) - [Request a Speaker](https://www.eidr.org/request-a-speaker) - About Us Show submenu for About Us - [Organization](https://www.eidr.org/organization) - [How We Work](https://www.eidr.org/how-we-work) - [Participating Companies](https://www.eidr.org/eidr-participants) - [Board of Directors](https://www.eidr.org/board-of-directors) - [Meet Our Team](https://www.eidr.org/our-team) - [Schedule](https://www.eidr.org/schedule) - [FAQ](https://www.eidr.org/faq) - News Show submenu for News - [InsEIDR News](https://www.eidr.org/blog) - [2026 APM Presentations](https://www.eidr.org/apm-2026) - Members Show submenu for Members - [Documentation](https://eidrdotorg.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EKB) - [Submit a Help Desk Ticket](https://eidrdotorg.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals) - Current Members Show submenu for Current Members - [Attend Training](https://calendly.com/eidrtraining/eidr-user-training) - [Causeway Login](https://members.eidr.org/site/login?return=%2Fwg%2Fmembers%2Fworkgroup%2Fhome) - [Join a Working Group](https://share.hsforms.com/1nvRMxIK5TgyScT05Gcn6xgcda7r) - [Registry Login](https://ui.eidr.org/auth/signin/eidr) - Prospective Members Show submenu for Prospective Members - [Onboarding Process](https://www.eidr.org/onboarding-process) - [Find an EIDR](https://ui.eidr.org/) [Find an EIDR](https://ui.eidr.org/) Oct 28, 2026, 1:48:58 PM # EIDR’s Kroon Tackles Data Curation at DAMA Days [C. Tribbey](https://www.eidr.org/blog/author/c-tribbey) Share: [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.eidr.org/blog/eidrs-kroon-tackles-data-curation-at-dama-days) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://www.eidr.org/blog/eidrs-kroon-tackles-data-curation-at-dama-days) Richard Kroon, senior director of technical operations for the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), brought his insights to a crowd Oct. 9 at the [DAMA Days 2026](https://damala.org/dama-days/) event at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His fireside chat — “Data Curation, Unstructured Data, and the Future Economics of AI” — was a highlight for the chief data officers and data scientists in attendance, with Kroon detailing EIDR’s progress with its de-duplication continuous improvement program. “We're conducting a head-to-head comparison between our current machine learning system, a traditional rules-based system, and a specially-tuned LLM running on a local machine,” Kroon said. “By running our own LLM, we're able to tune its teaching cases to focus on EIDR's area of interest and diminish the distractions found in shared LLMs, which are built as general-purpose tools, not dedicated M&E record de-duplication.” The theme for DAMA Days was “Data & AI – Building the Intelligent Enterprise” and was presented by DAMA Los Angeles, which tracks the latest data management trends, agentic AI, and AI governance. 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