Niels Hoffmann
Adviseur Metadata Standaarden
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Hoffmann is an experienced metadata and data architecture specialist with 12 years focused on GIS, semantic modelling and knowledge graphs, now advising on metadata standards at Geonovum. He combines deep expertise in spatial systems (ArcGIS, PostGIS, Gisib) and semantic technologies (RDF/OWL, GeoSPARQL, SHACL, Neo4j/Cypher) with practical development skills in Python, Java and Git. At Provincie Noord-Holland he led cloud-native data platform and data catalog initiatives, published architecture principles, and implemented ArchiMate tooling and quality-control for repositories. Niels blends asset management and sustainability domain knowledge with hands-on data migration and BIM-semantic integration experience, enabling pragmatic metadata solutions that bridge operations and architecture. He often applies both property-graph and RDF approaches where appropriate, a pragmatic habit that helps surface interoperability gaps early.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Physical geography, Msc, Physical geography at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (82)
metadata10
owl10
data-catalog10
data-governance10
linkedin10
datahub9
ontologies9
data-management9
ontology9
data-profiling9
metadata-management9
rdf9
cli8
pipeline8
interpretation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NielsHoffmann/Ontospy
Sep 2018 - Apr 2023
Python toolkit for inspecting linked data knowledge models AKA ontologies or vocabularies.
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 6 months
tuplepythonlinked-dataknowledgesemantics
provincieNH/OTL
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:184 commits, 147 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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