Marijn Koolen
Researcher at Huygens ING (KNAW)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarijn Koolen is a researcher and developer with a PhD in information retrieval and over a decade of experience building digital research infrastructure for the humanities. Based in Amsterdam, he blends rigorous IR research—covering book search, recommender systems, link analysis and structured retrieval—with hands-on tool development for computational literary studies and digital history. At KNAW/Huygens ING and prior roles at the University of Amsterdam and Sound and Vision he has translated scholarly questions into interactive systems and reproducible methods. His work sits at the intersection of network analysis, scholarly annotation and recommender design, often surfacing non-obvious relationships across large cultural heritage collections. Colleagues rely on him to bridge academic rigor and production-ready engineering in long-running digital humanities projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Retrieval, Ph.D., Information Retrieval at University of AmsterdamM.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
326reached
1answer
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Github Skills (40)
python-server10
linked-data9
rdfa9
rdf9
neo4j8
resolutions8
fuzzy-search8
annotations8
information-extraction8
javascript7
neo4j-database7
crowd7
cypher7
graph7
gwt7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CLARIAH/scholarly-web-annotation-server
Jan 2017 - May 2021
An experimental Python server for scholarly web annotations
Contributions:484 commits, 6 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 4 months
python-serverscholarlypythonannotations
CLARIAH/video-annotation-interoperability
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Proposal for crosswalks between a number of video annotation tools, including the CLARIAH Web Annotation tool, ELAN, FrameTrail, VIAN and Waldorf.js.
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
web-annotationvideo-annotationcrosswalksannotation-toolvideo
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