Pieter Colpaert

@pietercolpaert
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Professor #interoperability, #knowledgegraphs and public Web APIs at IDLab – UGent – imec

Working on Linked Data Event Streams #ldes

Webhttps://pietercolpaert.be/
Teamhttps://knows.idlab.ugent.be/team/

Did someone already complain about daylight saving time here? In case not:

Abolish daylight saving time!

Kind regards,

Someone with kids

@hochstenbach correctly classifying it in my personal library proves to be a challenge though
At the PhD defense of @hochstenbach

With the #Trustflows community, we’re launching #TrustTriggers:

A new event series combining a cross-domain Trustflows topic, a long networking break, and 3 concrete use cases.

First edition: 20 April at De Krook in Ghent. With curator @besteves4 hosting a discussion on the EUDI with invited keynote speaker Jan Lindquist.

We’ll also discuss use cases such as DPP, local council decisions, and trigger in the water domain.

Program and registration: https://trustflows.eu/events/2026/04/trust-triggers-1/

Scholarly archives blocking access to AI agents is not what I want as an author: I paid publishers to archive and make available my paper as open access, that certainly includes making sure that an LLM can take into account my paper when answering an expert’s question...

Just reading about this initiative by @SURF and @hochstenbach

It is possible to use Mastodon to maintain a wiki with your research output.

https://communities.surf.nl/regie-op-data/artikel/using-mastodon-to-keep-track-of-your-scholarly-output

@vtijms @BartVerheggen did you know about this?

Using Mastodon to Keep Track of Your Scholarly Output

In an experimental collaboration, the SURF Open Science Innovation Team and

SURF Communities

Deadline extended for the Semantics in Data Spaces workshop at @eswc_conf 2026: 1 more week to submit a paper, but beware: do submit your abstract!

https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS26/

There’s a tension between being semantically rich (using your own terms and definitions), and being semantically aligned, in which you try to reuse terms from other vocabularies.

I think we need a new concept: eventual #interoperability. I propose to start rich with your own vocabularies, and only make alignments when there’s a concrete reason for building those.

https://pietercolpaert.be/interoperability/2026/01/08/eventual-interoperability

#knowledgegraphs #apis #linkeddata #semantics

Sorry @danbri, this year is the year I remove all foaf: examples from my lecture slides

Call for papers alert!

The 4th Semantics in Dataspaces workshop organized together with @eswc_conf welcomes contributions trying to solve one of our W3C Community Group’s challenges!

https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS26/