Speakers

W. BOYD RAYWARD, keynote speaker, was educated in Australia and the United States. He is currently emeritus professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois and in the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has held professorial and deanship positions in the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He was editor of the Library Quarterly from 1975-1980. He is currently co-editor with Alistair Black of Library Trends. His research examines the history of the international organization of knowledge. In 1975 he published the first full length study of Paul Otlet, who originated the European documentation movement, was central to the creation and development of the Universal Decimal Classification and co-founded with Henri La Fontaine what became the International Federation for Documentation and Information. He published an English translation of a selection of papers by Otlet in 1990. Recent studies have focused on Paul Otlet's ideas in relation to hypertext and the beginnings of modern information science, on a number of utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G.Wells's idea of a world brain, and, from an historical point of view, on the implications of digitisation and networking for libraries and museums. European Modernism and the Information Society, a book of contributed papers edited by him appeared in 2008 and Information Beyond Borders: International and Cultural Exchange in the Belle Epoque is in preparation for publication in 2013. Read more at Professor Rayward's website.
Talk title: From the index card to the World City: knowledge organization and visualization in the work and ideas of Paul Otlet

SCOTT B. WEINGART researches information science and history of science at Indiana University. His studies focus on scientific communication and collaboration, both in early modern Europe through correspondence networks and early journals, and today in modern citation and publication patterns. Scott is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Paul Fortier Prize Winner for the Digital Humanities, and the author of the scottbot irregular, a blog covering computational methods and tools for humanists. Scott also aids in the development of software for data analysis, modeling, and visualization at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.
Talk title: From trees to webs: uprooting knowledge through visualization

CHARLES VAN DEN HEUVEL is Head Research of History of Science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences where he is involved in various research projects on annotation and visualization in the history of science and on concept extraction from 17th century correspondences of Dutch scholars. Furthermore, he makes part of the e-humanities research group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He studied Art History at Groningen University, The Netherlands (PhD 1991). He publishes regularly on history of architecture, fortification and town planning, history of cartography, history of science and history of information science. Themes of interests in the latter discipline are the history of classification, history of the WWW and the history of visualizations of knowledge. Currently, he is writing a book entitled “Imagining Interfaces to Universal Knowledge. The visualizations of Paul Otlet”.
Talk title: Visualizing knowledge interaction in the multiverse of knowledge

RICHARD P. SMIRAGLIA is Professor, Information Organization Research Group, School of Information Studies, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has defined the meaning of “a work” empirically and explored the implications of the phenomenon of instantiation among information objects. Recent work includes domain analytical studies of knowledge organization, the empirical analysis of social classification, and epistemological analysis of the role of authorship in bibliographic tradition. An associate researcher of the e-Humanities Group, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), he is a collaborating member of the Knowledge Space Lab effort to map the evolution of knowledge in Wikipedia. He holds a PhD (1992) from the University of Chicago. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Knowledge Organization.
Talk title: Visualizing knowledge interaction in the multiverse of knowledge
Talk title: UDC in action

XIA LIN is a professor at the iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His research areas include information visualization, knowledge mapping, information organization, digital libraries, information retrieval, and visual interface design. He has published widely in these areas and received significant funding for research and doctoral education. His visualization prototypes have been presented and demonstrated in many national and international conferences. He served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Visualization from 2001-2011. Dr. Lin has a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master of Librarianship from Emory University. Prior to join Drexel, Dr. Lin was an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.
Talk title: Challenges of knowledge structure visualization

JAE-WOOK AHN is a data scientist at Drexel University. He worked as a post-doctoral CRA-NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at the HCIL (Human-Computer Interaction Lab), University of Maryland at College Park. He got his Ph.D. in Information Science from University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and was a member of PAWS (Personalized Adaptive Web Systems) and TALER (Teaching and Learning Research) Labs. He has worked on various visualization projects for exploratory search, personalized search, recommender systems, and social networks. He is currently working on digital metadata analysis and concept visualization for museum environments.
Talk title: Challenges of knowledge structure visualization

LEV MANOVICH is a Professor at CUNY Graduate Center and founder and director of Software Studies Initiative . Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer programming. He moved to New York in 1981, receiving an M.A. in Experimental Psychology (NYU, 1988) and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester (1993). His Ph.D. dissertation The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Computers traces the origins of computer media, relating it to the avant-garde art of the 1920s. Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) Manovich has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984. His art projects have been presented by, among others, Chelsea Art Museum (New York), ZKM, The Walker Art Center, KIASMA, Centre Pompidou, ICA (London), and Graphic Design Museum (Breda, NL). Visit the author's website.
Talk title: Looking at one million images: how visualization of big cultural data helps us to unlearn our cultural categories

MARCEL WORRING is an associate professor in the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on Multimedia Analytics, the integration of Multimedia Analysis and Information Visualization into a coherent framework which yields more than its constituent components. He is one of the initiators of the show me the data conference series in Amsterdam. The series has a direct connection to a unique course in information visualization where new media students from the humanities, designers, and computer science students come together to do challenging projects.
Talk title: Easy categorization of large image collections by automatic analysis and information visualization

MATTHEW BATTLES, senior researcher with metaLAB at Harvard, has written about the cultural dimensions of science and technology for such venues as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Harper’s Magazine, and The Wilson Quarterly. He has published extensively on the history and changing roles of libraries in culture; his book Library: an Unquiet History (Norton) is available in eight languages worldwide and has been in print since 2003. In addition, he wrote the official history of Harvard’s Widener library, and is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the Book. His forthcoming volume, a material and cultural history of writing entitled Letter by Letter, will appear in Spring 2013. He is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Talk title: Data artefacts: tracking knowledge-ordering conflicts through visualization

YANNI ALEXANDER LOUKISSAS, senior researcher with metaLAB at Harvard, is a designer and ethnographer with an interest in human-machine-environment relationships. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society. His recent projects include a book about information technologies and professional identities entitled Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture and an interactive data visualization of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, first exhibited at MIT’s 150th anniversary. Originally trained as an architect, he has subsequently taught architecture as well as media arts and theory at Cornell, MIT, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is an instructor in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Talk title: Data artefacts: tracking knowledge-ordering conflicts through visualization

LUCA ROSATI is a practitioner information architect and assistant professor of Information Architecture at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in Italy. He has a long practice in designing complex information systems for large companies and organizations in order to ensure findability and graceful user experience. Luca is member of the editorial staff of the Journal of Information Architecture and serves at the board of the European Information Architecture summit. His last book, with Andrea Resmini, is Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-channel User Experiences (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011). He supports a holistic approach to information architecture, and its application to every shared information environments (physical, digital, procedural), in order to achieve a consistent model of human-information interaction. His website is lucarosati.it.
Talk title: How to design interfaces for choice: the role of classification in information architecture

ANDREA RESMINI is Assistant Professor at Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. Architect and designer, and a practicing information architect since 1999, Andrea is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of IA and the current president of the Information Architecture Institute. His research digs into the concepts of place, order and meaning in physical and digital spaces. He also pretends to play the piano, reads far too many books, and co-chairs the EuroIA conference. His book "Pervasive Information Architecture", co-authored with Luca Rosati, was published by Morgan Kauffman in 2011.
Talk title: Ghost in the shell: navigation, meaning and place-making in information space

BIN YANG is a Ph. D candidate at the Lip6 laboratory (Laboratory of Computer Sciences of Paris 6), University Pierre and Marie Curie – Sorbonne University (Paris VI University), Paris, France. His research interests rest in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Visualization, especially in the technology of Data Mining and automatic Data Visualization. He has a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University Pierre and Marie Curie. He has research experience in many Artificial Intelligence areas, such as machine learning algorithms, multi-agent system and decision theory. He has been working on the visualization technology since 2010 when he joined the ACASA team in Lip6.
Talk title: Memory islands: an approach for cartographic visualization

JEAN-GABRIEL GANASCIA is an Artificial Intelligence specialist and a professor at University Pierre and Marie Curie and head of the ACASA-LIP6 team for more than 20 years now. Recently, his researches focused on Cognitive Modelling and Digital Humanities. During his overall career, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia published more than 350 papers in books, journals and conference proceedings. He headed during 12 years the DEA IARFA, which was a Master of Science, specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. He is now in charge of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Science DMKM (Data Mining and Knowledge Management) for the University Pierre and Marie Curie. He is also member of the Labex OBVIL, which makes cooperate Paris-Sorbonne University and University Pierre and Marie Curie on Digital Humanities. Lastly, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia is an ECCAI – European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence – fellow.
Talk title: An overview of memory islands : an approach for cartographic visualization

DANIEL HIENERT studied Computational Visualistics at the University Koblenz-Landau and received a diploma in computer science. In 2005 he went to Humboldt University Berlin to study Italian and business administration. Since 2007 he is working as a research associate and PhD student at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in the department "Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences" (WTS). His research interests are Information Visualization and Information Retrieval with the focus on connecting both disciplines.
Talk title: Exploring semantically related concepts from Wikipedia: the case of SeRE

DENNIS WEGENER received his Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 2006. In 2006 he joined the Knowledge Discovery group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS. He finished his PhD in computer science in 2012 and is currently working as postdoc and team leader at GESIS.
Talk title: Exploring semantically related concepts from Wikipedia: the case of SeRE

SIEGFRIED SCHOMISCH received a Master's degree in political science, sociology and science of history from Bonn University (Germany) and is now working as a research associate at GESIS.
Talk title: Exploring semantically related concepts from Wikipedia: the case of SeRE

NATHALIE PINEDE is professor of Information and Communication Science since 1998 at Bordeaux University. Her main research interests are about digital uses, semantic approaches of hyperlinks in organizational contexts and strategic methods for better understanding relations between websites designers and users. She leads her activities research in a research laboratory of Bordeaux University (MICA), which is particularly specialized in informative problematics. She also closely works with researchers from other disciplines (like cognitics, computer science…) because interdisciplinarity is for her an important way of thinking concepts and methods in digital environments.
Talk title: How can users get the gist of a taxonomy using tag clouds?

VÉRONIQUE LESPINET-NAJIB (PhD in Psychology) is Professor of Ergonomic Psychology & Human Computer Interaction at Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute since 1999. Her research interests are in psychology, human perception and cognition, with special emphasis on usability methods (user tests, eye-tracking, heuristic analyses, etc ) and web accessibility and technology uses for help and support Cognitive constraints of users. His research activities are carried out within the team Cognitics and Human Engineering of IMS-Labs from the Bordeaux University.
Talk title: How users can get the gist of a taxonomic organization using tag clouds?

KATHRYN LA BARRE is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and President of the United States/Canada regional chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. Her research interests include knowledge organization and access systems (both historical and contemporary) with a specific focus on facet analysis and faceted classification in digital environments. Her recent publications on these subjects have appeared in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.
Talk title: Sempre avanti ? Some reflections on faceted interfaces

FABRICE PAPY is a professor of Information Science at the University of Lorraine, France. He founded the “Digital Document and uses” Laboratory where multidisciplinary researchers study the impact of digital technologies on social behavior. He publishes regularly on information science, digital library and sociotechnical impacts of ICT in academic libraries. He has designed and developed a new OPAC, the Visual Catalog (http://visualcatalog.pres-ulnf.fr), for a consortium of six universities. Long, his main scientific field is knowledge organization, information system interoperability and digital mediation. Since 2008, he is the editor-in-chief of the french journal, “Les Cahiers du Numérique”. (personal website : http://www.docnum.info)
Talk title: Classification and visualization: augmenting user independence and enhancing collections use

CLAUDIO GNOLI has been working as an academic librarian since 1994. His main research interests are the principles of knowledge organization and their application to digital assets. He is a current vice-president of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and a member of UDC Editorial Board.
Talk title: Sorting documents by base theme with synthetic classification: the double query method

ALBERTO CHETI has been holding technical and managing positions in local library services and social services for the Municipality of Fucecchio (Tuscany, Italy) since 1979. He has been a leading researcher in the Subject Indexing Research Group (GRIS) of the Italian Library Association (AIB), lecturing in university classes and contributing to the structure of the Nuovo Soggettario national subject indexing system.
Talk title: Sorting documents by base theme with synthetic classification: the double query method

REBECCA GREEN is an assistant editor of the DDC, with specific responsibilities related to DDC training modules and investigation of relationships in the DDC (with a long-term goal of developing a version of the system to support automated applications). Rebecca came to OCLC from her position as associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Rebecca is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) and of the Editorial Board of Knowledge Organization.
Talk title: From modeling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes

DIANE VIZINE-GOETZ is a senior research scientist at OCLC. Diane's research interests include knowledge organization, indexing and retrieval, and database quality control. Her current research activities involve applying principles of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model to large bibliographic datasets. Diane has also developed automated tools for catalogers and classifiers.
Talk title: From modeling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes

MARCIA LEI ZENG is professor at Kent State University. She has been involved in the development and research of knowledge organization systems for over 20 years and has been contributing to related standards including NISO Z39.19 and ISO 25964 for controlled vocabularies. She was also the chair of IFLA Working Group that developed the model of Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), and an Invited Expert on the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. She is Director-at-large of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
Talk title: From modeling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes

MAJA ŽUMER is Professor of Information Science at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces, and conceptual modeling. She has been involved in several IFLA working groups, NISO committees, and several EU projects. She has received several international and national research grants. She is a member of the IFLA FRBR Review Group and was the co-chair of IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR).
Talk title: From modeling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes

WEI FAN is a lecturer in the Department of Information Management and Technology, School of Public Administration at Sichuan University. He holds a PhD in library and information science from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are knowledge organization systems and information architecture. Wei is member of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and the member of the UDC Advisory Board.
Talk title: Semantic visualization for subject authority data of Chinese Classified Thesaurus

SHUQING BU is the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Classified Thesaurus (CCT Consortium). She is also a research librarian in National Library of China. Her research interests are classification, thesaurus, and cataloging.
Talk title: Semantic visualization for subject authority data of Chinese Classified Thesaurus

QING ZOU is a systems librarian at Lakehead University. He is also a PhD candidate of School of Information Studies at McGill University, Canada. His research interests are integrated library systems, institutional repositories, metadata, ontology, knowledge organization systems, and digital archives.
Talk title: Semantic visualization for subject authority data of Chinese Classified Thesaurus

ŠPELA RAZPOTNIK is a cataloguer in the Acquisitions Department at the National and University Library. She was also a researcher for subject indexing area, and the Head in the National Bibliography Department at National and University Library. Since 2007, she has been the editor of the Slovenian translation of UDCMRF. Spela is a vice-president of the Slovenian Library Association.
Talk title: Enhancing user browsing success through visualization of indexing terms

ALENKA ŠAUPERL is an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her teaching and research areas are in the organization of information, including descriptive and subject cataloguing, as well as abstracting. She is the author of several books and many articles in the field cataloguing and subject indexing.
Talk title: Enhancing user browsing success through visualization of indexing terms

DARIO RODIGHIERO is designer, librarian and passionate about art. Currently an interaction designer for AIME – An Inquire for the Modes of Existence – a project of Bruno Latour carried out at the Médialab of Sciences Po in Paris. After photographic studies he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Psychology and Visual Communication with a thesis on thesauri. He has worked for three years at the JRC Scientific Library of European Commission developing a project called Scientific Information Retrieval System. The SIRS project aimed at using a mapping between DDC and EUROVOC to visualize terms – with relative documents – through a digital interface. In the project he collaborated with FAO, Central National Library of Florence and British Geological Survey. Previously he joined as researcher the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the University of Milan-Bicocca. He also collaborated with the XEROX Research Centre Europe and INRIA Saclay in France; the Domus Academy in Italy; the Fraunhofer in Germany.
Talk title: The Homer's list, or how classifications can be displayed on tablets

GIORGIO DE MICHELIS teaches Informatics for Organizations and Interaction Design at the University of Milano – Bicocca. He was the Head of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communications 2002-2007. His research focuses on models of concurrent systems (Petri Nets), and computer supported cooperative work, community-ware, knowledge management and interaction design. In 2008, Giorgio created Itsme, a spin-off of the University of Milano – Bicocca, devoted to the design and construction of a newly conceived Linux-based operating system for workstation. In 2011, MIT Press published “Design Things” by A. Telier (pseudonym of T. Binder, G. De Michelis, P. Ehn, G. Jacucci, P. Linde and I. Wagner).
Talk title: The Homer's list, or how classifications can be displayed on tablets

ANDREA SCHARNHORST is Head of research at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) - an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She is also scientific coordinator of the computational humanities programme at the e-humanities group of the KNAW. She has published about the transfer of concepts and methods at the interface between physics, information sciences, social sciences and humanities. Her work focuses on modelling and simulating the emergence of innovations (new modes of behaviour and learning, forms of communication, technologies or scientific ideas) in social systems.
Talk title: UDC in Action

ALMILA AKDAG SALAH holds a BSc in industrial design, an MA in art history from Istanbul Technical University and a PhD from the Art History Department of UCLA. Her research interests are in the area of technoscience art and its place in the art historical canon; citation networks and mapping of the three semi-related disciplines (cognitive science, visual culture and art history) and their interactions. At the Virtual Knowledge Studio of KNAW she was part of the "Knowledge Space Lab" project, which contributed with a map on Wikipedia and UDC to the Places and Spaces exhibit. Currently she conducts research at the University of Amsterdam, her project “DeviantArt: Mapping the Alternative Art World” a VENI award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
Talk title: UDC in Action

CHENG GAO got her B.S in Computer Science from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) (2005) and M.S. in Computer Science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) (2009). She worked as Scientific Programmer for the Knowledge Space Lab project of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Talk title: UDC in Action

NUNO FREIRE is a Senior Researcher at The European Library. He holds a PhD in informatics and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon. He participated in a number of international projects in the area of digital libraries. His research interest is in information systems, information retrieval, information extraction, data quality, and knowledge representation and their application to digital libraries and bibliographic data.
Poster title: Visualization and navigation of knowledge in pan-European resources: the case of The European Library

VESLAVA OSINSKA is an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun where she teaches information architecture, information visualization, ICT and computer graphics. She has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in library and information science. Her research interest is in modern information and knowledge domain visualization with particular interest in applications of nonlinear properties to information organization and streaming. Veslava is also a member of the Polish Chapter of ISKO and the Polish Computer Science Society
Poster title: Cognitive approach in classification visualization: end-users study

JOANNA DRESZER-DROGOROB holds a PhD in psychology. She is an assistant in the Multimedia Lab at the Fine Arts Department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun where she also teaches cognitive psychology. Her research interests are in developmental aspects in time perception, neural basis of human cognition, intelligence, cognitive abilities. She is also interested in the dynamics in social psychology, such as dynamics in attitudes, feeling, and self-esteem.
Poster title: Cognitive approach in classification visualization: end-users study

GRZEGORZ OSINSKI is a computer scientist, neuroscientist and physicist. His current research is in nonlinear dynamics systems in biomedical sciences where he applies numerical methods and computer simulations for modeling behaviours of neural correlates in different dynamical states. His other interests are in cognitive aspects of neural activity in perception and communication processes.
Poster title: Cognitive approach in classification visualization: end-users study

MICHAL GAWARKIEWICZ holds a degree in computer science from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. His master’s thesis was on semantic memories in narrow domain using machine-readable information. His current PhD studies are on database optimizations. Michal also teaches programming classes and works in the area of data processing and mobile technologies.
Poster title: Cognitive approach in classification visualization: end-users study

JUNTE ZHANG, MATTHIJS BROUWER; HENNIE BRUGMAN; MARC KEMPS-SNIJDERS; JAN PIETER KUNST; NICOLINE VAN DER SIJS; RENÉ VAN STIPRIAAN; ERIK TJONG KIM SANG; ROB ZEEMAN The presenter Junte Zhang holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His doctoral research was on system evaluation of archival description and access, with a special focus on design and evaluation of archival search engines based on Encoded Archival Description (EAD) metadata. Junte’s research interest is in digital libraries and in optimal use of metadata for domain- or topic-specific search engines. His research is often interdisciplinary involving expertise in both technology and humanities. In the Nederlab project, he was the principal designer of the metadata and full-text search engine and worked on the visual analytics driven by it.
The poster is co-authored by the following researchers and software developers from the Meertens Institute (The Netherlands): Matthijs Brouwer, Hennie Brugman, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Jan Pieter Kunst, Nicoline van der Sijs, René van Stipriaan, Erik Tjong Kim Sang, and Rob Zeeman
Poster title: Nederlab: visual analytics in a virtual research environment for humanities

ASHKAN ASHKPOUR is a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social History and Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ashkan holds a bachelor degree in Business IT and a Master of Science degree in Economics and Informatics from the Erasmus University. The topic of his PhD research is the ‘theory and practice of data harmonization’ with specific focus on harmonization issues of historical Dutch census data. His current research interests include (among others) the harmonization of historical data, dynamics of societal changes, scholarly collaboration, virtual research environments / collaboratories, organizational and individual impacts of advanced information systems, ERP systems and strategic alignment of IT.
Poster title: The CEDAR Project: classifying the Dutch historical censuses

ALBERT MEROÑO-PEÑUELA is a PhD student at the VU University Amsterdam and at Data Archiving and Networked Services. He holds a bachelor in Informatics Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (FIB-UPC). As a researcher he has previously worked at the Insitute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB), developing models for Law using semantic technologies. His research interests also include Linked Open Data, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Computer Graphics, and he is an enthusiast of Free Software. He also likes to spend his time playing music and reading science fiction.
Poster title: The CEDAR Project: classifying the Dutch historical censuses