Talks & Press

This page list some academic and non-academic talks as well as press articles.

2025On Academic Authorship, lecture Research Integrity course for PhD students VU Faculty of Science (ongoing series)
2023‘On Embracing Errors’, valedictory lecture on 21 April, marking my official retirement: video (Dutch), text (English), text (Dutch)
2023Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam‘, welcome video
2022Publiek van de Toekomst‘, in Dutch, campaign Digital Heritage Netherlands (DEN, supervisory board member 2013-2021)
2021Farewell speech for rector magnificus Vinod Subramanian, , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2020Welcome message for new students, audio message due to COVID-19 pandemic, September 2020
2017How the Semantic Web is transforming information access‘, B-Debate, ‘”Artificial Intelligence: Dreams, Risks, and Reality’, Barcelona, 8 March
2015Semantics and the Humanities‘, presentation at St. Johns College, Oxford, 25 September
2015Pragmatics of ethics: paper writing‘, course Research Integrity, VU
2013NoTube project overview‘, EU panel, Luxemburg
2011Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web‘, keynote lecture IC3K Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Engineering and Management, Paris, France, 28 October
2011The Art of Knowledge Engineering, or: knowledge engineering of art‘, seminar in honour of the retirement of Bob Wielinga, Amsterdam
2011Het nieuwe zoeken, het nieuwe vinden‘, interview in Dutch, //Collectie, magazine for library professionals
2010Web 3.0: meer vinden dan je zoekt‘, interview Volkskrant, in Dutch
2010Web science: the digital-heritage case‘, keynote lecture SOFTSEM 2010, Spindler Mlyn, Czech Republic
2010Het Semantische Web‘, programma Denktank, BNR Nieuwsradio, in Dutch
2008Principles and pragmatics of a Semantic Culture Web‘, invited talk at meeting of the European National Libraries, Frankfurt amMain, 31 January
2007Spin in het Semantische Web’, article in Vrij Nederland (Dutch periodical) about th the Semantic Web group at the VU, in the series ‘Het Verstand van Nederland’ (‘The Brains of The Netherlands’)
2007Het slimme broertje van Google‘, Gewoon Bijzonder, VU alumni magazine, in Dutch
2006Over de grijpbaarheid en grenzen van kennis‘, inaugural lecture (in Dutch), VU Amsterdam, 24 December
2005OWL: the W3C Web Ontology Language‘, invited talk Berlin Open Forum, von Humboldt University, September
2004The making of the Web Ontology Language‘ OWL, SIKS day, Zeist castle, March