Leon van Wissen

Leon van Wissen

Data Engineer

University of Amsterdam

Biography

I am a Data Engineer at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the Golden Agents project, CREATE, and the Data Science Center. I work with historical databases and linked data.

Interests
  • Language Technology and the Semantic Web
  • Dutch literature
  • Early modern history
  • Cycling
Education

  • MA (Research) in Literary Studies and Computational Linguistics, 2015-2018

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • BA in Dutch language and culture, 2012-2015

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Projects

Cinema Context as Linked Open Data

Cinema Context as Linked Open Data

Documentation pages, data and pipeline of the conversion of Cinema Context, an encyclopædia on Dutch film culture, to Linked Open Data / RDF.

DOI
The Montias Case

The Montias Case

The demo shows the intersection of datasets the Golden Agents project is working with, as shown on top of a single archival book (NA 2408) from the Amsterdam City Archives. The demo is built with Mirador version 3 and uses the iiif Presentation API version 3.0.

Repository Paper
LODLAM 2020

LODLAM 2020

Reconstructions and Observations in Archival Resources - Golden Agents' LODLAM challenge entry

Slides Video
roar

roar

Ontology to describe Reconstructions and Observations in Archival Resources

Hollywood Science: Art, Science and Film

Hollywood Science: Art, Science and Film

Course taught at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2017 and 2018.

Publications

Al Idrissou, Leon van Wissen, Veruska Zamborlini (2022). The Lenticular Lens: Addressing Various Aspects of Entity Disambiguation in the Semantic Web. Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022, 3-4 February. Amsterdam..

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Leon van Wissen, Thunnis van Oort, Julia Noordegraaf, Ivan Kisjes (2021). Cinema Context as Linked Open Data: Converting an online Dutch film culture dataset to RDF. SEMANTICS 2021, 6-9th September Amsterdam.

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Ilaria Tiddi, Maria Maleshkova, Tassilo Pellegrini, Victor de Boer (2021). Joint Proceedings of the Semantics co-located events: Poster&Demo track and Workshop on Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling of Digital Twins co-located with Semantics 2021 Amsterdam and Online, September 6-9, 2021..

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Harm Nijboer, Lieke van Deinsen, Leon van Wissen, Judith Brouwer, Ton van Strien, Frans Blom (2021). Using Linked Data to track and trace processes of canonization in early modern Dutch literature. Digital Humanities Benelux journal.

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Leon van Wissen, Richard Zijdeman, Rick Mourik, Ivo Zandhuis, Lodewijk Petram, Laura Hollink (2021). Linked Data on historical persons: publishability, interconnectivity and sustainability. Panel at DHBenelux 2021, 2-4 June. World Wide Web.

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Teaching

Courses taught

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Humanities, department Media Studies

  • Coding the Humanities (Spring 2021)

    Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Humanities, department Language, Literatuur & Communication

  • Introduction to Digital Humanities (Fall 2020)

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

  • Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film (Spring 2018)

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

  • Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film (Fall 2017)

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

  • Methods and Techniques (Spring 2017)

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

Tags

3D archives Canvas Cinema Context Cinema History CREATE Data Reuse De Gids DH DHBenelux Digital Humanities Dutch Golden Age GLAM Golden Agents Linked Data Linked Open Data ontology rdf Schrijverskabinet VU

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