On the 1st of May 2017, the Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage Seminar (#DANSLOD) took place in Den Haag, the Netherlands. This seminar series was organized by DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) – Netherlands Institute for Permanent Access to…
On 21 and 22 March, researchers from VU’s Web and Media group attended ICT.OPEN, the principal ICT research conference in the Netherlands. Here over 500 scientists from all ICT research disciplines & interested researchers from industry come together to learn…
Tomorrow on Thursday June 23rd, the students of the IMM bachelor program will present their individual research. The presentations take place in the VU intertain lab during several sessions: 10:00 – 11:15 11:30 – 12:45 13:30 – 14:45 15:00 –…
Freshly minted dr. Nana flanked by his two paranimphs receives the laudation from supervisor prof. Akkermans. On 5 april 2016, Nana Baah Gyan successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa, An ICT4D Approach”…
VU Rector Prof. Subramaniam opens the symposium On 6 April 2016, the Third International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT for Development (ICT4D)” was hosted by the VU Network Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems SIKS, the Computer Science…
Fahimeh, joint PhD student from S2 group at VU and SNE group at UvA, won the ASCI Track Best Flash Presentation Award at the ICT.Open 2016 in March. Congrats Fahimeh! In her work, she introduces a scalable power efficient approach to…
Rijksmuseum – Modemuze – COMMIT/ SealincMedia – Wikimedia Nederland Saturday 23rd April 2016 – Cuypers Library, the Rijksmuseum Fashion heritage, collected over centuries, can be found everywhere in museums: costumes, accessories, paintings, prints and photographs. But while some clothes and…
It’s kind of appropriate that my last post of 2015 was about the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and my first post of 2016 will be about ISWC. This years conference will be held in Kobe Japan. This year’s conference already…
Below you find some impressions from ICT.Open 2016. At this very nice event members from the Web and Media group and VU master students presented their ICT research. The images show me presenting the Observe project’s achievements so far. Oana Inel presenting the…
CrowdTruth had an appearance at the Watson Experience MeetUp last week. Together with Zoltán Szlávik, my colleague from IBM, we talked about the pervasive myths that still influence how we collect annotation from humans. While time and money constraints definitely…
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