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Crowd Truth

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Dutch Ships and Sailors

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DIVE

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Papers

RDF, Vocabulary, Linked Data, Web documents, Content management, Semantic Web, HTML5
Content Management Systems haven’t gained much from the Linked Data uptake, and sharing content between different websites and systems is hard. On the other side, using Linked Data in web documents is not as trivial as managing regular web content using a CMS. To address these issues, we present a method for creating human readable web documents out of machine readable web data, focussing on modularity and re-use. A vocabulary is introduced to structure the knowledge involved in these tasks in a modular and distributable fashion. The vocabulary has a strong relation with semantic elements in HTML5 and allows for a declarative form of content management expressed in RDF. We explain and demonstrate the vocabulary using concrete examples with RDF data from various sources and present a user study in two sessions involving (semantic) web experts and computer science students.

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EKAW 2016, Bologna

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People

The VU Web & Media team consists of enthusiastic and talented people

I am collaborating with the IBM Watson team in NY on crowdsourcing ground truth data for the adaptation of the Watson system in medical domain. I am involved in several research projects focussing on semantic search, recommendation systems and event-driven access to multimedia collections online.

Lora Aroyo

Professor

My research focuses on crowdsourcing in a linked cultural heritage environment. I implemented the Accurator nichesourcing platform as part of my PhD project. Doing research at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, British Museum and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision provided valuable insights in the requirements of institutions regarding Linked Data and crowdsourcing.

Chris Dijkshoorn

PhD Student

I am interested in understanding how specific knowledge about experimental processes in a given research area (for example in microbiology, food physics or consumer perception) can support researchers in carefully designing and executing their primary process of planning and making observations.

Dena Tahvildari

PhD Student

I am working on the semantic web, social systems, controlled natural languages, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and bioinformatics.

Tobias Kuhn

Assistant Professor

In my research, I combine (Semantic) Web technologies with Human-Computer Interaction, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction to tackle research challenges in various domains. These include Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

Victor de Boer

Assistant Professor

I am working at the CrowdTruth project, a collaboration with IBM Research New York and the IBM Netherlands Centre for Advanced Studies. My research interests are Crowdsourcing, Natural Language Processing, and Linked Open Data.

Anca Dumitrache

PhD Student