We are happy to announce that our keynote speaker will be Erwin Folmer.
Erwin Folmer received the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and management in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree on the thesis “Quality of Semantic Standards” in 2012, both from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He worked for TNO (Netherlands Applied Research Institute) since 2001, and became a Senior Scientist on the topic of interoperability and standards. From 2009, he joined (part-time) the University of Twente to start a Ph.D. research on the standardization topic, while continuing the work for TNO. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher with the ERCIS/University of Munster, in Germany. From 2015 onwards, he joined the Kadaster, continuing the work on standards and interoperability with special focus on spatial data platforms. Nowadays he is leading the Kadaster Data Science Team. He is also chairing the Platform Linked Data Netherlands; an open community to support the Linked Data adoption.
- KeyNote Title: Lessons Learned from Building the Largest Spatial Knowledge Graph in the Netherlands
- Abstract: Kadaster, the Dutch National Land Registry and Mapping Agency, has been actively publishing their base registries as linked (open) spatial data for several years. To date, a number of these base registers as well as a number of external datasets have been successfully published as linked data and are publicly available. Increasing demand for linked data products and the availability of new linked data technologies have highlighted the need for a new, innovative approach to linked data publication within the organisation in the interest of reducing the time and costs associated with said publication. Both the modelling and publication architecture form part of Kadaster’s larger vision for the development of the Kadaster Knowledge Graph through the integration of the various linked datasets. In this presentation Erwin will focus on the lessons learned from building (probably) one of the largest spatial knowledge graphs in the world. He might also want to challenge the participants by talking about his greatest frustration: GeoSPARQL.
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We are happy to announce that our keynote speaker will be Manolus Koubarakis.
Erwin Folmer received the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and management in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree on the thesis “Quality of Semantic Standards” in 2012, both from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He worked for TNO (Netherlands Applied Research Institute) since 2001, and became a Senior Scientist on the topic of interoperability and standards. From 2009, he joined (part-time) the University of Twente to start a Ph.D. research on the standardization topic, while continuing the work for TNO. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher with the ERCIS/University of Munster, in Germany. From 2015 onwards, he joined the Kadaster, continuing the work on standards and interoperability with special focus on spatial data platforms. Nowadays he is leading the Kadaster Data Science Team. He is also chairing the Platform Linked Data Netherlands; an open community to support the Linked Data adoption.
+ KeyNote Title: Recent advances in question answering for geospatial knowledge graphs
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