Leon van Wissen

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

Publications

(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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(2022). Linking Cinema Data. An interactive workshop on bridging multiple cinema datasets through Linked Open Data.

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

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

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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)

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