Full name: Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Formal name: Dr. J.R. van Ossenbruggen
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Email: Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4141
Room: M352
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~jrvosse
Research groups: Information Access
Formal name: Dr. J.R. van Ossenbruggen
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Email: Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4141
Room: M352
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~jrvosse
Research groups: Information Access
Research
Ossenbruggen carries out research on semantic web interfaces for cultural heritage and other linked open data and Web-based data integration, in particular on supporting transparency of provenance throughout the data chain. He is currently active in the Fish4Knowledge, Agora and PrestoPrime projects and the EuropeanaConnect Best Practice Network. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the VU University Amsterdam in 2001.
Career
| 2013 | Scientific staff member INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member IA - Information access |
| 1998 - 2012 | Scientific staff member INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2006 | Semantic Web Challenge |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2009 | Guest editor Journal: IEEE Intelligent systems - [IS] - Volume: 24 - Number: 2 - Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage |
| 2007 | Organizer Busan, Korea - International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web |
| 2007 - 2008 | Project leader |
| 2006 | Organizer Edinburgh, UK - International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia - [SWAMM] |
| - 2010 | External examiner Aalto University |
Selected Publications
| R. Gligarov, M. Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, G. Schreiber, L. Aroyo. On the Role of User-generated Metadata in Audio Visual Collections. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2011, Banff, AB, Canada, 145–151, 2011. |
| A. Tordai, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, A.T. Schreiber, B. Wielinga. Let's Agree to Disagree: On the Evaluation of Vocabulary Alignment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2011, Banff, AB, Canada, 2011. |
| M. Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman, G. Jacobs. Supporting subject matter annotation using heterogeneous thesauri, a user study in Web data reuse. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67, 888–903, 2009. |
| G. Schreiber, A.K. Amin, L. Aroyo, M. van Assem, V. de Boer, Lynda Hardman, M. Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, B. Omelayenko, A. Tordai, J. Wielemaker, B. Wielinga. Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage collections: The MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator. Journal of Web Semantics 6, 243–249, 2008. |
| M. Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman. /facet: A Browser for Heterogeneous Semantic Web Repositories. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006, 272–285, 2006. |

