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Architectural Digital Humanities student projects

December 12th, 2018

In the context of our ArchiMediaL project on Digital Architectural History, a number of student projects explored opportunities and challenges around enriching the colonialarchitecture.eu dataset. This dataset lists buildings and sites in countries outside of Europe [Read More...]
Trip Report: ISWC 2018

October 23rd, 2018

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the 17th International Semantic Web Conference held at Asiolomar Conference Grounds in California. A tremendously beautiful setting in a state park along the ocean. This trip [Read More...]
Who uses DBPedia anyway?

October 16th, 2018

[this post is based on Frank Walraven‘s Master thesis] Who uses DBPedia anyway? This was the question that started a research project for Frank Walraven. This question came up during one of the meetings of the [Read More...]
Trip Report: Dagstuhl Seminar on Knowledge Graphs

September 18th, 2018

Last week, I was at Dagstuhl for a seminar on knowledge graphs specifically focused on new directions for knowledge representation. Knowledge Graphs have exploded in practice since the release of Google’s Knowledge Graph in 2012. [Read More...]
The Benefits of Linking Metadata for Internal and External users of an Audiovisual Archive

September 7th, 2018

[This post describes the Master Project work of Information Science students Tim de Bruijn and John Brooks and is based on their theses] Audiovisual archives adopt structured vocabularies for their metadata management. With Semantic Web and [Read More...]
Developing a Sustainable Weather Information System in Rural Burkina Faso

September 5th, 2018

[This post describes the Information Sciences Master Project of Hameedat Omoine and is based on her thesis.]  In the quest to improve the lives of farmers and improve agricultural productivity in rural Burkina Faso, meteorological data [Read More...]
An Approach to a Sustainable Weather Information System in Rural Burkina Faso

September 5th, 2018

[This post describes the Information Sciences Master Project of Hameedat Omoine and is based on her thesis.]  In the quest to improve the lives of farmers and improve agricultural productivity in rural Burkina Faso, meteorological data [Read More...]
Trip Report: Provenance Week 2018

July 30th, 2018

A couple of weeks ago I was at Provenance Week 2018 – a biennial conference that brings together various communities working on data provenance. Personally, it’s a fantastic event as it’s an opportunity to see the [Read More...]
Testimonials Digital Humanities minor at DHBenelux2018

July 4th, 2018

At the DHBenelux 2018 conference, students from the VU minor “Digital Humanities and Social Analytics” presented their final DH in Practice work. In this video, the students talk about their experience in the minor and [Read More...]
Big Data Europe Project ended

June 29th, 2018

All good things come to an end, and that also holds for our great Horizon2020 project “Big Data Europe“, in which we collaborated with a broad range of techincal and domain partners to develop (Semantic) [Read More...]