NEWS

As of the 1st of April 2010 I work as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. See my new website (under construction).

Contact

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Laura Hollink

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU
Department of Computer Science CS
Section Business Informatics BI
Web & Media Group W&M

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:

De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
T +31 (0)20 598 8785
F +31 (0)20 598 7728
E hollink@cs.vu.nl

Wednesday:

Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Media Park, Sumatralaan 45
1200 BB Hilversum
T +31 (0)35 6771755
E hollink@cs.vu.nl
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Research

AGORA

I'm involved in the AGORA: Semantics of History project, funded by the NWO Catch program and the Camera Institute at the VU.

MUNCH

I'm currently working as a Postdoc in the MUNCH project (Multimedia Analysis of Cultural Heritage), funded by the NWO Catch program. MUNCH is a cooperation between the VU, the UvA and the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision. We aim to improve search possibilities in the rich collection of Dutch television broadcasts that is archived at 'Sound and Vision', by combining three research directions: structured background knowledge in the form of ontologies or thesauri, language technologies and content-based image retrieval.

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E-Culture

Untill early 2006 I participated in the Multimedian E-Culture project. I recommend everyone to play around with the E-Culture Web Demonstrator, which has won the Semantic Web Challenge 2006.

IMIK

From January 2002 until April 2006 I worked as a PhD student in the IOP funded project Interactive Disclosure of Multimedia, Information and Knowledge, or I'mIk (Interactieve Ontsluiting van Multimedia Informatie en kennis). On the 16th of November 2006 I defended my PhD thesis, titled Semantic annotation for retrieval of visual resources [PDF].

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Brief CV

After graduation from highschool in 1997 I started the beta-gamma propedeuse at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). This is a one year program in which the students study a broad spectrum of topics, both beta and gamma. After one year I enrolled in the Social Science Informatics curriculum. I did an internship at the local government of Haarlem and graduated on a masters thesis titled "Ondersteuning van Gemeentelijke Frontoffices" ("Support of Local Gouvernement Frontoffices") in December 2001. In Januari 2002 I started a PhD on the project Interactive Disclosure of Multimedia, Information and Knowledge (I'mIk) at the Social Science Informatics Department of the UvA. After a bit more than a year I moved to the Business Informatics Section of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) where I continued my work on the I'mIk project. During the winter of 2004/2005, I visited the group of Jane Hunter in Brisbane, Australia. In November 2006 I defended my PhD thesis titled Semantic annotation for retrieval of visual resources. From April 2006 onwards I have worked in the MUNCH project at the VUA, first as a postdoc and as of April 2008 as an assistant professor.