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:
(INS2) Interactive 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 -	Onderzoeker D INS2 - Interactive 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.

All publications (link to repository)