Home page of Guus Schreiber

Professor of the Web & Media group, Computer Science department, VU University Amsterdam
Co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and former co-chair of the Semantic Web Best Practices and the Web Ontology Working Groups
Working on the Semantic Culture Web with CWI, UvA and many cultural-heritage partners. See the MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator, the Europeana semantic-search demo, the promotion video , and the overview article in the Journal of Web Semantics.
Project coordinator of the EU Integrated Project NoTube (integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics) and former Sceintific Director of the EU Network of Excellence "Knowledge Web".
First author of the CommonKADS textbook published by MIT Press:

Contact details

VU University Amsterdam, FEW, Computer Science, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Room U-325. Tel: +31 20 598 7739/7718. Fax: +31 20 598 7728. E-mail: schreiber at cs.vu.nl.

Students who want to make an appointment (e.g. about a Master Project) should send a message to Mrs. Elly Lammers

The VU campus is situated just south of the Amsterdam South train station (directions). The Computer Science department is located in the Sciences building, behind the main VU building. Take entrance 1081 (first entrance on the left when entering the campus from the tram 5/51 stop). Take the elevator to the 3rd floor and go to the U wing on your right.

In the press

[In Dutch]

Radio 1 discussion on whether Internet makes us happier (1 January 2009).
Article in Gewoon Bijzonder (VU alumni magazine) on Semantic Web (December 2007)
Article in Intermediar on semantic search (28 March 2007)
Articles in Vrij Nederland on virtual Semantic Web group at the VU (10 February 2007)
Article in NRC Next on "Art Web"(16 November 2006)

Publications

Here is my full list of publications.

Recent work

Y. Wang, N. Stash, L. Aroyo, L. Hollink, and G. Schreiber. Semantic relations in content-based recommender systems. 2009. Submitted for publication, [url].

A. Tordai, J. van Ossenbruggen, and G. Schreiber. Combining vocabulary alignment techniques. 2009. Submitted for publication, [url].

L. Hollink, B. Huurnink, M. van Liempt, J. Oomen, A. de Jong, M. de Rijke, G. Schreiber, and A. Smeulders. A multidisciplinary approach to unlocking television broadcast archives. J. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2009. In press, [url].

L. Gazendam, V. Malaisé, A. de Jong, C. Wartena, H. Brugman, and G. Schreiber. Automatic annotation suggestions for audiovisual archives: Evaluation aspects. J. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2009. In press, [url].

Y. Wang, L. Aroyo, N. Stash, R. Sambeek, Y. Schuurmans, G. Schreiber, and P. Gorgels. Cultivating personalized museum tours online and on-site. J. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2009. In press, [url].

T. Ruotsalo, L. Aroyo, and G. Schreiber. Knowledge-based linguistic annotation of digital cultural heritage collections. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2009. In press, [url].

W. R. van Hage, M. Sini, L. Finch, H. Kolb, and G. Schreiber. The OAEI food task: an analysis of a thesaurus alignment task. Applied Ontology, 2009. In press, [url].

Some typical publications

G. Schreiber, A. Amin, L. Aroyo, M. van Assem, V. de Boer, L. Hardman, M. Hildebrand, B. Omelayenko, J. van Ossenbruggen, A. Tordai, J. Wielemaker, and B. Wielinga. Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage collections: The MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator. J. Web Semantics, 6(4):243-249, 2008. [url].

Mike Dean, Guus Schreiber (eds.), Sean Bechofer, Frank van Harmelen, Jim Hendler, Ian Horrocks, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Patel-Schneider and Lynn Andrea Stein. OWL Web Ontology Language Reference. W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004. Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/

Guus Schreiber, Barbara Dubbeldam, Jan Wielemaker, and Bob Wielinga. Ontology-based photo annotation. IEEEIntelligent Systems, May/June 2001. PDF

Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Nigel Shadbolt, Walter Van de Velde and Bob Wielinga. Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology, MIT Press, ISBN 0262193000. 2000. Preface and table of contents (PDF). See also the CommonKADS website

Gertjan van Heijst, Guus Schreiber and Bob Wielinga. Using explicit ontologies for KBS development. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42(2/3):183-292, 1997. HTML

CV synopsis

Guus Schreiber is a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science department of the VU University Amsterdam. His research interests are mainly in knowledge and ontology engineering, with a special interest for applications in the field of cultural heritage. He was one of the key developers of the CommonKADS methodology. He acts as chair of W3C groups for Semantic Web standards such as OWL, SKOS and RDFa. His research group is involved a wide range of national and international research projects. He is now project coordinator of the EU Integrated Project NoTube concerned with integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics and was previously Sceintific Director of the EU Network of Excellence "Knowledge Web".

Schreiber studied medicine at the University of Utrecht. After working two years at the University of Leiden in the Medical Informatics department he joined in 1986 the SWI (Social Science Informatics) group of Bob Wielinga at the University of Amsterdam, where he was involved in research on knowledge engineering. In 1992 he was awarded a Ph.D. on a thesis entitled "Pragmatics of the Knowledge Level". In 2003 he moved to the VU.

Projects

Projects that are ongoing or about to start:

Project Coordinator of Integrated Project NoTube (VU project fact sheet)
Integrated Project PrestoPRIME (VU project fact sheet)
eContentPlus project EuropeanaConnect
CATCH-2 Project Agora
Dutch BSIK project Poseidon
Dutch BSIK project MultimediaN, subproject E-Culture
Dutch BSIK project VL-e Virtual Lab e-science (VL-e), subproject AID: Advanced Information Disclosure
CATCH project MuNCH: Multimedia aNalysis for CulturalHeritage
CATCH project CHOICE: CHarting the informatiOn landscape employIng ContExt information

I haven't include the long list of pas projects. Consult the list of publications in case you're interested.

Some recent talks

Invited talk Principles for knowledge engineering on the Web, European Knowledge Acquistion Conference EKAW'08, Catania, 2 October 2008
Invited talk Principles and pragmatics of a Semantic Culture Web Meeting of the European National Libraries, Frankfurt, 31 January 2008
Invited talk: Ontologies for multimedia: the Semantic Culture Web International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technology (SAMT 2006), Athens, 7 December 2006
The text of my inaugural speech (in Dutch) on 24 November2006: in PDF or HTML.

Journals and conferences

Journals and major conferences I'm currently involved in:

Int. Journal of Web Semantics (editorial board)
Journal of Applied Ontology (editorial board)
KCAP International Conference on Knowledge Capture (program co-chair in 2005, together with Peter Clarke)
ISWC International Semantic Web Conference (General Chair in 2007)
EKAW: European Knowledge Acquisition Conference (co-chair in 1990, 1994 and 1996)

Teaching

Master projects can be done in th context ofongoing projects. See the contact details for information about how to make an appointment.

I'm currently involved in the following courses:

Web technology: block 3, together with Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Ontology engineering: block 6, together with Laura Hollink and Willem van Hage
Social and Economic Aspects of the Networked World: block1, together with Jaap Gordijn
Business modelling and requirements engineering: block 2, together with Hans Burg

For course details, see the Blackboard system of the university.

Personal

Favorite outdoor sport: running
Favorite indoor sport: bridge
Favorite music genre: opera
Favorite opera: Salome
Favorite wine: many
Favorite book subject: history
Favorite historic period: 19th century
Favorite English writer: Jane Austen
Favorite Dutch writer: A. F. Th. van der Heijden