Job description

The PhD project, titled “Linked Open Data curation model in social science history – the case of Dutch census data” will be supervised by Professor Frank van Harmelen (VU Amsterdam). You will work in a project team consisting of another PhD student (PhD project “Theory and Practice of data harmonization in social history” (under the supervison of Professor Kees Mandemakers (Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam; IISH) and a postdoc experienced in complex network analysis and visualization. The project will be coordinated by Dr Andrea Scharnhorst (DANS, e-humanities group). It is part of the Computational Humanities Programme of the KNAW, which will be hosted at the e-humanities group (ehumanities.nl) and in which further projects (with PhD students, postdoc’s and senior staff) in the area of computational and digital humanities will be carried out.

You will conduct research about:

    Review of existing data models of census data, adaptation and modification, construction of the RDF model, links to other semantic web sources
    Query design (specific to different user communities)
    Development of RDF models of census data (historical variables)
    Mapping of different ontologies across domains and along time,
    Development of best practices to enable take-up of linking and re-use of data in other scientific disciplines and take-up in other KNAW institutes.
    Visual navigation through RDF modelled information spaces
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