Albert Meroño Peñuela

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and at the International Institute of Social History. My research revolves around interfaces between the Digital Humanities and the Semantic Web.

I am currently involved in CLARIAH, a national project funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) to build a distributed infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. I completed my PhD in 2016, with the thesis Refining Statistical Data on the Web, under the supervision of Frank van Harmelen, Stefan Schlobach and Andrea Scharnhorst. In the thesis, I research how to integrate and refine statistical data from various domains (especially in Social History/Digital Humanities), measure their quality, and facilitate their transformation in Web friendly ways. I had an unconditional support from Data Archiving and Networked Services and the eHumanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Until 2011 I worked at the Institute of Law and Technology, where I developed tools for supporting legal decision making using semantic technologies.

Some things I’ve written/contributed to are:

grlc, a service that transforms GitHub repositories with SPARQL queries into Linked Data APIs automatically
TabLinker, a framework for integrating messy spreadsheet collections into fully fledged RDF Data Cube (example result here)
LSD Dimensions, an aggregator of statistical dimensions and Data Structure Definitions in use in public SPARQL endpoints
Linked Edit Rules, the hub for publishing edit rules (data quality checkers) as Linked Data
SCRY, a lightweight SPARQL endpoint with customizable, standard-compliant and implementation-independent functions ($ pip install scry).

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My current visiting address is:

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Room U303
De Boelelaan 1081 A
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands