Leon van Wissen

Scientific programmer

Biography

I am a scientific programmer at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the Golden Agents project and CREATE, working 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

LODLAM 2020

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

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Ontology to describe Reconstructions and Observations in Archival Resources

Hollywood Science: Art, Science and Film

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

Publications

Menno den Engelse, Leon van Wissen, Thunnis van Oort, Julia Noordegraaf (2020). Cinema Context in RDF. DANS.

PDF DOI

Leon van Wissen, Claartje Rasterhoff, Thunnis van Oort, Ivan Kisjes (2020). Serving the city: an automatic information extraction for mapping Amsterdam nightlife (1820-1940). 15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, DH 2020, Ottawa, Canada, July 20-25, 2020, Conference Abstracts.

PDF

Leon van Wissen, Chiara Latronico, Sandra van Ginhoven, Veruska Zamborlini (2020). The Montias Case: an experiment with data reconciliation and provenance between research and cultural heritage institutions. 15th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, DH 2020, Ottawa, Canada, July 20-25, 2020, Conference Abstracts.

PDF Poster

Leon van Wissen, Chiara Latronico, Veruska Zamborlini, Jirsi Reinders, Charles van den Heuvel (2020). Unlocking the archives: A pipeline for scanning, transcribing, and modelling entities of archival documents into Linked Open Data. DH Benelux 2020.

PDF Slides DOI

Leon van Wissen, Harm Nijboer (2020). Schrijverskabinet RDF. Zenodo.

Code DOI

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Teaching

Courses thought

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Humanities, department Language, Literatuur & Communication

Digital Humanities and Social Analytics - Teacher (Fall '20)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film - Teacher (Spring '18)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hollywood Science, Art, Science and Film - Teacher (Fall '17)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Methods and Techniques - Teaching assistant (Spring '17)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam