Pieter Colpaert
Board Member Ad Interim 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.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer science at HOGENTDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
search-tree10
http-client10
php-library10
web-development10
hydra10
parking10
geocoding10
html10
serializer10
nodejs10
css10
scraper10
linked-data10
redirect10
ontology10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
TREEcg/extract-cbd-shape
Aug 2023 - May 2025
Get all RDF triples/quads related to an entity based on CBD and a SHACL shape
Contributions:4 releases, 8 reviews, 23 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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pietercolpaert/w3id.org
Aug 2018 - May 2026
Website source code for w3id.org
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
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