Leon van Wissen

Data Engineer

University of Amsterdam

Biography

I am a Data Engineer at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the Golden Agents project, GLOBALISE, CREATE, and the Data Science Centre. I work with historical databases and linked data.

Interests

Language Technology and the Semantic Web
Dutch literature
Early modern history
Cycling

Education

MA (Research) in Literary Studies and Computational Linguistics, 2015-2018

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
BA in Dutch language and culture, 2012-2015

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Projects

Last updated on 2021-06-14

Cinema Context as Linked Open Data

Documentation pages, data and pipeline of the conversion of Cinema Context, an encyclopædia on Dutch film culture, to Linked Open Data / RDF.

Last updated on 2021-06-25 Research, Demo

The Montias Case

The demo shows the intersection of datasets the Golden Agents project is working with, as shown on top of a single archival book (NA 2408) from the Amsterdam City Archives. The demo is built with Mirador version 3 and uses the iiif Presentation API version 3.0.

Last updated on 2021-03-13

LODLAM 2020

Reconstructions and Observations in Archival Resources - Golden Agents’ LODLAM challenge entry

Last updated on 2021-06-25

roar

Ontology to describe Reconstructions and Observations in Archival Resources

Last updated on 2022-05-21

Hollywood Science: Art, Science and Film

Course taught at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2017 and 2018.

Publications

Jurian Baas, Leon van Wissen, Jirsi Reinders, Mehdi Dastani, Ad Feelders (2022). Adding Domain Knowledge to Improve Entity Resolution in 17th and 18th Century Amsterdam Archival Records. Towards a Knowledge-Aware AI.

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Julia Noordegraaf, Leon van Wissen, Ivan Kisjes, Thunnis van Oort, Clara Pafort-Overduin (2022). Linking Cinema Data. An interactive workshop on bridging multiple cinema datasets through Linked Open Data.

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Leon van Wissen (2022). Data modelling at the start of the GLOBALISE project (pilot). Talk at GLOBALISE Seminar 27 June 2022, Amsterdam.

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Leon van Wissen (2022). Gebruiker aan het woord: Golden Agents. Talk at Symposium Omega - Stadsarchief Amsterdam, 25 May 2022, Amsterdam.

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Leon van Wissen, Veruska Zamborlini, Charles van den Heuvel (2022). Modeling Provenance and Uncertainties in the Use of Archival Sources of the Dutch Golden Age.

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Teaching

Courses taught

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Humanities, department Media Studies

Coding the Humanities (Spring 2021)

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Humanities, department Language, Literatuur & Communication

Introduction to Digital Humanities (Fall 2020)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film (Spring 2018)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film (Fall 2017)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Methods and Techniques (Spring 2017)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)