Recent & Upcoming Talks

Upcoming presentation at PIDfest 2026 about the implementation of ARK identifiers at the Royal Library of Belgium

This presentation provides an introduction to Cultural Heritage data at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and in particular introduces the Linked Data-related projects BELTRANS and MetaBelgica. It was given to students of the postgraduate programme in Heritage and Society (Postgraduaat Erfgoed en samenleving) at the University of Ghent.

This was a panel discussion at DHBenelux 2026 where me and my co-presenters talked about catalogues-as-data. After very brief presentations from each of us, we had a moderated session with questions and input from the audience.

In this presentation at the EURIG annual meeting 2026, I present the MetaBelgica project and how we aim to generate RDA-compliant data via a property mapping in the Wikibase.

In this presentation for the ENDORSE conference, I will present the MetaBelgica project, our data integration strategy and why we opted for a central Wikibase solution for our authority data management.

In this presentation at the BookHistory workshop at KBR, I presented Ann Van Camp’s presentation on the larger context of book translations and the gap and importance of the Belgian part that we explore in the BELTRANS project.

In this presentation at the second study day on the Visual Name Authority project of the Flemish archiving institution meemoo, I talk about data standardization in the MetaBelgica project. More concretely I focus on standardizing dates according to the EDTF format and placenames with the help of GeoNames.

This presentation introduces the field of Cultural Heritage to ICT students of the Odisee University of Applied Sciences. It focuses on research work at the Royal Library of Belgium as well as on Linked Data technologies.

In this webinar for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) I argue for structured Linked Data-ready data in library catalogues. This serves as a single source of truth and eases further steps towards Linked Open Data for example for the Belgian Bibliography.

In this presentation at a study day on the Visual Name Authority project of the Flemish archiving institution meemoo, I talk about possible data governance for the MetaBelgica project. I do this by referring to data governance of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) in German-speaking countries and recent research.

In this presentation at the first Conference on Research Data Infrastructure, I present the MetaBelgica project for the first time to the public. Four Federal Belgian institutions join forces to collaboratively maintain authority data and make them available as FAIR data.

This presentation briefly introduces the field of cultural heritage and then provides many examples of FAIR and Open Data in the field of cultural heritage. Such as bibliographic Linked Data from national libraries, existing APIs for platforms such as Europeana, information about the IIIF standard or digital heritage such as web and social media archives.

Use your data to achieve something! You will likely encounter data quality issues… We present data quality procedures at the Royal Library of Belgium, how the BELTRANS project revealed more subtle issues, and our developed Librarian-In-The-Loop workflow to semi-automatically improve data quality.

The added value of using standards and standard identifiers when considering data quality

In this presentation at the DHBenelux 2022, my colleague Ann Van Camp and me present our approach to create the BELTRANS corpus: a reproducible pipeline rather than only a manual curation in a spreadsheet.

The public defense of my PhD dissertation with the title “Assessing, Creating and Using Knowledge Graph Restrictions”

Our analysis of SHACL constraint type use based on publicly available SHACL shapes on GitHub

Using a decentralized Linked Data solution for advertisement targeting

Using the CCCEV vocabulary to describe public service steps with the aim to improve the user experience