Jacco van Ossenbruggen is leading the Information Access group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, and affiliated as an associate professor with the Web & Media research group at VU University in Amsterdam. His research interests include assessment of data quality in large, heterogeneous research datasets in the digital humanities, large scale web data integration and linking in cultural heritage and other data rich domains. On a national level, he is currently collaborating with the Dutch National Library in the context of the COMMIT project. On an international level, Jacco and his group participate in the European VRE4EIC project, focusing on assessment of data quality in large, interdisciplinary research infrastructures. Jacco obtained a PhD in computer science from VU University Amsterdam in 2001.
I gave an invited talk about semantics for European cultural heritage during the Semantic Week in Amsterdam.
I was invited to attend an expert meeting organized by DEN. The goal was to kickstart a discussion about a minimal set of guidelines for the digital description of objects in Dutch cultural heritage. The process and its outcome will be made available online at the DEN website (in Dutch).
I gave an invited talk (in Dutch) about the importance of linked open data for archives for the Koninklijke Vereniging van Archivarissen in Nederland. I was happy to see my talk started some good discussion in the blogosphere!
I attended the PrestoPrime project meeting at the lovely BCC R&D Kingswood Warren location, just south of London. Our group at VU is working on improved end-user access to audiovisual archives, we are for example collaborating with Beeld en Geluid on the waisda? video tagging game.
I'm a member of the program committee of The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) which was organized from 31 May - 4 June 2009 in Crete, Greece
I attended the EuropeanaConnect at Kick-off meeting in Vienna. Our team at the VU will be responsible for big parts of Europeana's Semantic Layer.
I'm a member of the program committee of Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009), which will be held in co-location with IUI2009 in Florida, USA.
I attended ISWC 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Michel Hildebrand won the best paper award in the Doctoral Consortium. Jan Wielemaker presented our paper on "Thesaurus-based Search in Large Heterogeneous Collections" (runner up for the best paper In Use track)
I gave an invited talk on metadata interoperability at the MPG eScience Seminar of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany.
I was a member of the program committee of AH2008, which took place from 29th Juli till August 1 in Hannover, Germany.
I was a member of the program committee and presented our position paper at the Semantic Web User Interaction workshop at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy.
I gave a course about our MultimediaN E-Culture project at the Advanced SIKS Course: "Web-based systems: a semantic perspective".
Guus Schreiber and I gave a CS1 course Web Technology at VU University Amsterdam.
I gave an invited talk about our MultimediaN E-Culture project during the Dutch national digital cultural heritage conference.
Lora Aroyo, Eero Hyvönen and I organize this workshop during ISWC 2007
I gave an invited talk at this conference organized by the Estonian Ministry of Culture.
2007-08-16: The Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group published their report on Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. The report, of which I am one of the co-editors, describes the use of RDF and OWL to create, store, exchange and process information about images. The previously published Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web discusses a number of individual vocabularies that are relevant for image annotation. Both publications are part of the Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment. (W3C News)
We demonstrated our eculture demo as part of the MultimediaN event in Nemo. This was also the official launch of the project's promo video!
ERCIM News published "Getting your data back by giving it away", a short article I wrote about the use of open data in our MultimediaN E-Culture project.
I gave a demonstration about the advantages of open linked data in the context of our e-culture project at a Dutch cultural heritage meeting, which was held in the beautiful building of "Beeld en Geluid".
Guus Schreiber and I gave a mini workshop about the advantages of open linked data and showed the demonstrator of our e-culture project at the international Museums and the Web conference.
My co-author Michiel Hildebrand presented our paper about the /facet browser, which is a major part of our MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator that won the International Semantic Web Challenge 2006!
I gave an invited talk and participated in a panel on the use of metadata in the stock image industry during the CEPIC congress in Biarritz.
I'm co-organizer of the SWAMM workshop that wass held during the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh.
Today W3C announced the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group of which I am one of the founding members.
The ACHE event of which I was the local organizer was a great success. ACHE aims at sharing knowledge and expertise in the domain of Cultural Heritage and Semantic Web.
I participated in the annotation party which took place in the context of the MultimediaN project I'm involved in.
I attended ISWC2005 in Galway, Ireland. Before the start of the conference, I participated in the face-to-face meeting of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group. I gave a short presentation about the work of the Working Groups Multimedia Task Force. during the SWCASE Workshop.
I attended WWW2005 in Chiba, Japan. My co-author Lloyd Rutledge presented our paper Making RDF Presentable: Integrated Global and Local Semantic Web Browsing
I attended ISWC2004 in Hiroshima, Japan.
I attended WWW2004 in New York City and participated in the First International Workshop on Interaction Design and the Semantic Web.
This phase also includes the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group of which I am a member.
I attended ISWC 2003 on Sanibel Island, Florida. My co-authors Joost Geurts and Stefano Bocconi presented our paper "Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations".
I attended WWW2003 in Budapest, Hungary to present our paper Towards a Multimedia Formatting Vocabulary.
I attended the PC meeting of the ACM Hypertext 2003 in Nottingham, UK.
I attended ISWC2002 in Sardinia, Italia.
I attended the 11th Web conference and gave a short talk at the Semantic Web Workshop about our paper Smart Style on the Semantic Web (a revised version of CWI Techreport INS-R0201 ).
I gave a short talk at the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
My colleague Lloyd Rutledge was the conference chair of MMM 2001 - The 8th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling . The conference was held on November 5th though 7th at CWI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I co-authored the paper Application-Specific Constraints for Multimedia Presentation Generation presented by my other colleague Joost Geurts.
I gave an overview of the research of our group, focusing on the issues related to Multimedia on the Semantic Web .
The W3C SYMM working group I'm involved in has released SMIL 2.0 as a Recommendation (see the press release).
I presented our paper Towards Second and Third Generation Web-based Multimedia during the 10th International World Wide Web Conference.
My PhD defense was held on the 10th of April, at 15:45hr in the main building of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
I gave a talk about Multimedia on the
Semantic Web
for MIA at the UvA,
Amsterdam.
I gave a short talk at the W3C Workshop on Web Device Independent Authoring in Bristol, UK.
Lynda Hardman and I organised the Multimedia and the Web workshop on Monday May 15th at WWW9 in Amsterdam , the Netherlands.
