Harri Kiiskinen
Data Manager
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolHarri Kiiskinen is a Data Manager and Knowledge Graph specialist with 15 years of experience blending semantic web technologies with a deep background in cultural history and classical archaeology. He designs data models, knowledge graph architectures and research data policies, translating messy humanities and excavation data into interoperable semantic datasets. His work spans academia, cultural institutes and consulting, including building ML-enabled data pipelines for large literary corpora and georeferenced excavation publication workflows. Comfortable bridging domain scholarship and technical practice, he’s known for pragmatic solutions that respect heritage data provenance and small-institute constraints. Based in Turku, Finland, he brings the uncommon combination of field survey experience and advanced metadata engineering to make scholarly data both discoverable and reusable.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Cultural history, Classical archaeology, Latin, Greek, MA, Cultural history, Classical archaeology, Latin, Greek at Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuFilosofian tohtori (PhD), Cultural History, Filosofian tohtori (PhD), Cultural History at Turun yliopisto / University of Turku
English, Finnish, Italian, German, Swedish, French, Dutch, Danish, Latin, Greek
Github Skills (53)
uri8
sparql7
linked-data7
semantic-web7
parser7
rdf6
pypi6
graph6
islandora6
serializer6
json-ld5
shacl5
extraction5
python5
triplestore5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
harrikoo/schema
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
A cross-platform mobile app for mHealth monitoring and intervention
Contributions:17 pushes in 22 days
harrikoo/grass
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
GRASS GIS - free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS)
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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