Koen Van Daele
Director Of Information
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Van Daele is a Director of Information with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering REST-oriented, open-source enterprise systems for cultural heritage organizations. He leads teams that run large public services—catalogues, geo-portals, digital repositories and thesauri—combining hands-on Python development with pragmatic architecture, PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch search, and Linked Open Data practices. Trained in both applied informatics and archaeology, he uniquely bridges domain expertise in heritage with technical stewardship, prioritizing information quality over technology fads. A vocal advocate for SKOS and semantic vocabularies, he favors pragmatic tooling choices and maintains an active GitHub presence to share agency-focused open-source solutions.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Informatics, Great Distinction, Master's degree, Applied Informatics, Great Distinction at Universiteit GentSecundair Onderwijs, Economie-Wiskunde, Secundair Onderwijs, Economie-Wiskunde at St.-Jozefslyceum
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (100)
iana10
thesaurus10
vocabulary10
alembic10
skos10
lib10
fastapi-sqlalchemy10
sqlalchemy10
journal9
triplestore9
open-access9
python9
shacl9
linked-data9
geospatial9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OnroerendErfgoed/scriptorium
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
OnroerendErfgoed/crabpy_pyramid
Feb 2014 - Oct 2020
Bindings for the crabpy library and the pyramid framework
Contributions:9 releases, 136 commits, 37 PRs in 6 years 8 months
pythonpyramidpypi-packagecrabaddress
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