Pieter Colpaert
Professor at Open Knowledge Belgium
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Colpaert is a professor at IDLab, Ghent University – imec, with 15 years of experience researching and building cost-efficient, maintainable Linked Data Web APIs and public Web APIs. He earned a PhD in 2017 for work on automating data integration for transport route planning and applied those principles across smart cities, digital twins, heritage, logistics and rail infrastructure during a postdoc and technology coordination roles. A co-founder and long-time leader of Open Knowledge Belgium, he blends academic rigor with civic open-data activism and practical open-source projects like The DataTank and iRail. He teaches and develops courses on Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data & Solid, and is known for making semantic web ideas pragmatic and production-ready. Notably, his research focus emphasizes hypermedia-driven APIs that enable fully automated data integration rather than one-off data dumps.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Ghent UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer science at Hogeschool Gent
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
npm-package10
specification10
csv-parsing10
php-library10
web-development10
hydra10
api10
geocoding10
html10
serializer10
nodejs10
querying10
css10
scraper10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTransport/vocabulary
Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 9 months
transport-systemsvocabularydescribetransport
OpenTransport/gtfs-csv2rdf
Aug 2014 - Sep 2018
Mapping script which transforms GTFS CSV into GTFS RDF (turtle, jsonld or ntriples)
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
csvjsonldturtle-rdfgtfsmapping
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