Delft’s history revisited: Semantic Web applications in the cultural heritage domain

While at one side there is an ever increasing movement within cultural heritage organizations to offer public access to their collection-data using the Web, on the other the Semantic Web, fueled by ongoing research, is growing up to be a mature and successful addition to the Web. Nowadays, these two sides are joining forces, combining the large...

Domain-aware ontology matching on the semantic web

The rise of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data has led to a large number of different and heterogeneous datasets and ontologies published on the Web. This kind of heterogeneity of datasets has created a need to interlink them, i.e. to make explicit that two resources of different datasets in fact represent the exact same concept. This is the...

Vector-Based Semantic Expansion Approach: An Application to Patent Retrieval

Patent collection is increasing incrementally. Most of the new technological information is from patent documents, and retrieving specific patents in such a large pool of documents has become a challenging issue for both patent examiners and normal/inexperienced users. Nowadays, most of the retrieval systems (patent retrieval systems) search for...

Link Prediction and the Evolution of Communities on Twitter

This research is about the influence of link prediction on the evolution of communities on Twitter. We collected tweets from three technology micro-bloggers who led us through their followings and tweets to tens of thousands of unique users over several weeks. We analyzed conventional and alternative information streams for these micro-bloggers...

Linked open government data

More and more governments are setting up data portals on the web where they publish open government data. The (re)use of this government data can create economic value and increase transparency. The linked data format is part of the Semantic Web and adds more meaning to data than conventional data formats, which improves reusability. It is...

A Semantic Web based approach to expertise finding at KPMG

An important requirement for realizing high organizational effectiveness within large organizations is the existence of an expertise finding application which enables rapid discovery of expertise inside the organization. The main goal of this research was to investigate how Semantic Web techniques could be used to increase the findability and...