[This post describes the research of Michelle de Böck and is based on her MSc Information Sciences thesis.] Digitization of cultural heritage content allows for the digital archiving, analysis and other processing of that content. The practice of scanning and transcribing books, newspapers and images, 3d-scanning artworks or digitizing music has opened up this heritage […]
This is a first post in a new series on VU Semantic Web reading club. During this weekly reading club we discuss a research paper related to Semantic Web, Human Computation or Computer Science in general. Every week, one group member selects and prepares a paper to discuss. This week it was my time and […]
[This post describes the Master Project work of Information Science students Tim de Bruyn and John Brooks and is based on their theses] Audiovisual archives adopt structured vocabularies for their metadata management. With Semantic Web and Linked Data now becoming more and more stable and commonplace technologies, organizations are looking now at linking these vocabularies […]
This post describes the MSc theses of Ana-Liza Tjon-a-Pauw and Josien Jansen. As a semantic web researcher, it is hard to sometimes not see ontologies and triples in aspects of my private life. In this case, through my contacts with dancers and choreographers, I have since a long time been interested in exploring knowledge representation […]
2025 Ghiotto, M., Ho, L., Javdani Rikhtehgar, D., Axelsson, A., Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, A., Wang, S. & de Boer, V., Supporting the Critical Museum Visitor Through Hybrid Intelligence , Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Pedreschi, D., Milano, M., Tiddi, I., Russell, S., Boldrini, C., Pappalardo, L., Passerini, A. & Wang, S. […]
I teach a number of courses at the VU computer science department for the BSc. and MSc. level. I amactive in the Digital Humanities minor. I am chair of the “Docententeam” and the “Opleidingscommissie IS”. I supervise multiple PhD. students and a number of MSc. and BSc. students and My goals in supervising students is […]