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About me

On 1 December 2016 I was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at VU University Amsterdam. Before that I was for two years Head of the Computer Science department.

I'm still a professor at the Web & Media group of the Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, and part of the Network Institute. My interests lie in knowledge engineering, web science, and e-humanities. I like to do interdisciplinary projects. Since 2002 I've spent a considerable amount of my time chairing W3C groups in the Data area. The last group I chaired was the RDF Working Group, for which I wrote the RDF 1.1 Primer.

After my entry in 2014 into the management ranks leadership of the Web & Media research group was taking over by Professor Lora Aroyo.

Selected activities

8 March 2017: B-Debate "Artificial Intelligence: Dreams, Risks, and Reality", Barcelona

How the Semantic Web is transforming information access from Guus Schreiber

4 October 2015: Event with our Accurator prototype in the Rijksmuseum: descriving birds in art images

Photograph of painting — "Birds on a balustrade" by Hondecoeter 1680-1690. (source)

25 September 2015: presentation at workshp "Semantics and the Humanities", St. Johns College, Oxford

Semantics and the Humanities: some lessons from my journey 2000-2012 from Guus Schreiber

10 November 2014: presentation at Histoinformatics 2014, Barcelona

Linking historical ship records to a newspaper archive from Guus Schreiber

25 July 2014: keynote Web Science Summer School, University of Southampton

Knowledge engineering and the Web from Guus Schreiber

June 2011: (in Dutch) Interview in //Collectie (magazine for libraries)

Artikel: Het nieuwe zoeken; het nieuwe vinden

4 March 2011: talk at the symposium "Beyond the Semantic Web", held on in honor of Bob Wielinga

The artof of knowledge engineering, or: knowledge engineering of art from Guus Schreiber

4 December 2010: (in Dutch) Interview in De Volkskrant (national newspaper)

Artikel: Web 3.0 - meer vinden dan je vraagt

23 February 2010: (in Dutch) BNR News Radio, program Denktank (Think Tank)

29 January 2010: Keynote SOFTSEM 2010, Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic

Web Science: the digital heritage case from Guus Schreiber

31 January 2008: Invited talk at meeting of the European national libraries, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Principles and pragmatics of a Semantic Culture Web from Guus Schreiber

December 2007: (in Dutch) Article in "Gewoon Bijzonder" (VY alumni magazine)

13 November 2007: Panel ISWC 2007, Busan, Korea

Prodigy or Sociopath: The Adolescent Semantic Web
Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler, Carole Goble, Abraham Bernstein, Frank van Harmelen, Guus Schreiber

10 February 2007: (in Dutch) Article in Vrij Nederland (national periodical)

7 December 2006: Keynote International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technology (SAMT 2006), Athens, Greece

Ontologies for multimedia: the Semantic Culture Web from Guus Schreiber

July 2006: Keynote at the Semantic Web Summer School, Cercedilla, Spain.

Video of keynote at the Semantic Web Summer School

Semantics for visual resources: use cases from e-culture from Guus Schreiber