Richard Dijkstra
Linked Data Consultant
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRichard Dijkstra is a Linked Data Consultant and architect with over three decades in ICT and more than a decade focused on semantic technologies, ontologies, taxonomies and FAIR data practices. He combines hands-on modeling and SPARQL expertise with team leadership and program-level data architecture, currently shaping the semantic model for Politie Nederland while consulting across healthcare and public sector projects. His background spans systems management, ERP implementations, data-architecture and people management, which gives him a rare ability to translate operational processes into robust semantic models and production Linked Data pipelines. Richard’s work habitually blends pragmatic governance and integration experience (customer master, migrations) with research-grade ontological design, reflecting roles at Kadaster, Sligro and Zorginstituut Nederland. Based in North Brabant, he pairs an academic foundation in business processes and ICT with deep practical experience in enterprise systems and long-term commitment to making data interoperable and reusable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business processes and ICT, Master Business processes and ICT at Open UniversiteitBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Economische bedrijfstechniek, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Economische bedrijfstechniek at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
reasoner9
ontology9
semantic-web9
owl9
agile-development9
r2rml9
full-stack9
sparql9
rdf9
database8
localization8
python8
rml-mapping8
linked-data8
rdf-store8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RichDijk/EAGOC
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
RichDijk/richdijk.github.io
Aug 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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