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thoughts
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2025-08-22
Interoperability ambition levels
Interoperability isn’t just about connecting two systems—it’s about building reusable data and interaction patterns that work across domains. This post explores three ambition levels, from ecosystem-specific integration to cross-domain reuse and AI-powered inter-engine communication, inspired by the European Interoperability Framework and the Semantic Web.
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2021-09-03
Escaping the false dichotomy of API vs. data dump with Linked Data Event Streams
Data publishers often face a familiar but painful choice — should they provide a full data dump or a querying API? With Linked Data Event Streams (LDES), we provide a way out.
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2019-12-31
What we did in 2019 and will be doing in 2020
Report on our team’s research in 2019 and what we will be doing in 2020.
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2019-05-27
Real-time election results as Open Data
Organizing and participating in the first electathon
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2019-03-21
The next steps for Open Data Portals? Data recipes!
How do machines find specific datasets useful for their use cases?
opinion
talks
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2021-03-16
Linked Data Event Streams as the base API for European datasets
ENDORSE2021 — keynoteKeynote at the ENDORSE2021 conference introducing Linked Data Event Streams
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2019-10-09
GraphQL vs. REST for Open Data
GhentJS — dev-talkTalking about GraphQL vs. REST:
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2018-07-11
Open data to create power for the many, not the few
TEDxUCLouvain 2018 — TEDxThe story so far with Open Data: we’re not there yet. Let’s make sure data can be adopted by the many, by making sure a machine can access it for you.
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2017-09-22
Keynote on Open Data: a Belgian perspective
Open Sea Lab — KeynoteAnswers to questions what Open Data, Linked Data and Querying Web APIs means, with examples from Belgium.
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2017-02-04
Predicting the crowdedness of your next train
Data Beers Brussels — Lightning talkIn 2017 we ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for getting to know how busy your next train will be. We ended up coding this into iRail.be!