Publications

2010

• Lourens van der Meij, Antoine Isaac, Claus Zinn. A Web-based Repository Service for Vocabularies and Alignments in the Cultural Heritage Domain. Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, (ESWC 2010). Heraklion, Greece, 30 May-3 June 2010. Paper, Slides

2009

• Antoine Isaac, Dirk Kramer, Lourens van der Meij, Shenghui Wang, Stefan Schlobach, Johan Stapel. Vocabulary Matching for Book Indexing Suggestion in Linked Libraries – A Prototype Implementation & Evaluation. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009). To appear. Paper
• Shenghui Wang, Antoine Isaac, Balthasar Schopman, Stefan Schlobach, Lourens van der Meij. Matching multi-lingual subject vocabularies. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009). September 28. Paper
• Antoine Isaac, Ed Summers (eds.). SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. W3C Group Note, August 18, 2009. Latest Version
• Antoine Isaac, Jon Phipps, Daniel Rubin (eds.). SKOS Use Cases and Requirements. W3C Group Note, August 18, 2009. Latest Version
• Antoine Isaac, Shenghui Wang, Claus Zinn, Henk Matthezing, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach. Evaluating Thesaurus Alignments for Semantic Interoperability in the Library Domain. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(2), Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage, March/April 2009. Paper
• Cassia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira, Antoine Isaac. Comparing Argumentation Frameworks for Composite Ontology Matching. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2009), 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009). Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Paper.
• Antoine Isaac, Thierry Bouchet. Rameau et SKOS. Dissemination paper in Arabesques, 54, pp. 13-14, April-June 2009. Journal issue
• Anila Angjeli, Antoine Isaac, Thierry Cloarec, Frédéric Martin, Lourens van der Meij, Henk Matthezing, Stefan Schlobach. Semantic Web and Vocabulary Interoperability: an Experiment with Illumination Collections. Dissemination paper in IFLA International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 38(2), pp. 25-29, April-June 2009.

2008

• Balthasar Schopman, Shenghui Wang, Stefan Schlobach. Deriving concept mappings through instance mappings. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008): 122-136. Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2008.
• Shenghui Wang, Gwenn Englebienne and Stefan Schlobach. Learning Concept Mappings from Instance Similarity. In Proceedings of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008.
• Antoine Isaac, Cassia Trojahn, Shenghui Wang, Paulo Quaresma. Using quantitative aspects of alignment generation for argumentation on mappings. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26, 2008. Paper, Slides. CEUR online Workshop Proceedings.
• Caterina Caracciolo, Jérôme Euzenat, Laura Hollink, Ryutaro Ichise, Antoine Isaac, Véronique Malaisé, Christian Meilicke, Juan Pane, Pavel Shvaiko, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ondřej Šváb-Zamazal, Vojtěch Svátek. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2008. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26, 2008. CEUR online Workshop Proceedings.
• Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, and Shenghui Wang. An empirical study of instance-based ontology matching. In Proceedings of the 20th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008). Enschede, the Netherlands, October, 2008.
• Ed Summers, Antoine Isaac, Clay Redding, Dan Krech. LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, (DC 2008). Berlin, Germany, 23 September 2008. Paper (also in Chinese)
• Anila Angjeli, Antoine Isaac. Semantic web and vocabulary interoperability: an experiment with illumination collections. Proceedings of the 74th IFLA General Conference. Québec, Canada, 13 August 2008. Paper (also in French and Spanish)
• Antoine Isaac, Henk Matthezing, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, Shenghui Wang, Claus Zinn. Putting ontology alignment in context: usage scenarios, deployment and evaluation in a library case. Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, (ESWC 2008). Tenerife, Spain, June 5, 2008. Paper, Slides
• Laura Hollink, Mark van Assem, Shenghui Wang, Antoine Isaac, Guus Schreiber. Two Variations on Ontology Alignment Evaluation: Methodological Issues. Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, (ESWC 2008). Tenerife, Spain, June 5, 2008. Paper, Slides
• Laura Hollink, Antoine Isaac, Véronique Malaisé, Guus Schreiber. Semantic Web Opportunities for Digital Libraries. Presented at the 32nd Library Systems Seminar of the European Library Automation Group (ELAG 2008). Wageningen, The Netherlands, 14-16 April 2008. Paper
• Antoine Isaac, Henk Matthezing, Stefan Schlobach, Claus Zinn. Integrated access to cultural heritage resources through representation and alignment of controlled vocabularies. Library Review, 57(3), March 2008. Chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009. Paper

2007

• Antoine Isaac, Claus Zinn, Henk Matthezing, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, Shenghui Wang. The Value of Usage Scenarios for Thesaurus Alignment in Cultural Heritage Context. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007). Busan, Corea, November 12, 2007. Paper, Slides
• Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Isaac, Christian Meilicke, Pavel Shvaiko, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ondrej Šváb, Vojtech Svátek, Willem Robert van Hage, Mikalai Yatskevich. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2007. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Corea, November 11, 2007. CEUR online Workshop Proceedings.
• Zharko Aleksovski, Willem Robert van Hage, Antoine Isaac. A Survey and Categorization of Ontology Matching Cases. Poster, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007). Busan, Corea, November 11, 2007. Paper, Poster
• Shenghui Wang, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach. Multi-Concept Alignment and Evaluation. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007). Busan, Corea, November 11, 2007. Paper, Slides
• Willem Robert van Hage, Antoine Isaac, Zharko Aleksovski. Sample Evaluation of Ontology-Matching Systems. Proceedings of the Fifth International Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based Tools, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007). Busan, Corea, November 11, 2007. Paper
• Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, Shenghui Wang. An empirical study of instance-based ontology matching. Proceeedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007). Busan, Corea, November 11-15, 2007. Paper, Slides
• Veronique Malaise, Antoine Isaac, Luit Gazendam and Hennie Brugman. Anchoring Dutch Cultural Heritage Thesauri to WordNet: two case studies. ACL 2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data. Prague, Czech Republic, June 28, 2007. Paper

2006

• Antoine Isaac, Stefan Schlobach (transl. by Marianne Peereboom). De Standaard: OWL, Web Ontology Language. Dissemination paper in Informatie Professional. pp. 30-33, 10(12), 2006.
• Antoine Isaac (transl. by Marianne Peereboom). De Standaard: SKOS, Simple Knowledge Organisation System. Dissemination paper in Informatie Professional. pp. 40-43, 10(11), 2006.
• Marjolein van Gendt, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij and Stefan Schlobach. Faceted Access to Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Collections using Semantic Web Techniques. Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2006), Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Wim Vanhof and Gabriel Schwanen (eds.), pp. 379-380. Namur, Belgium, October 5-6, 2006. (Demonstration abstract) Paper
• Marjolein van Gendt, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij and Stefan Schlobach. Semantic Web Techniques for Multiple Views on Heterogeneous Collections: a Case Study. Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2006), Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Wim Vanhof and Gabriel Schwanen (eds.), pp. 379-380. Namur, Belgium, October 5-6, 2006. (Compressed contribution, based on our ECDL paper) Paper
• Marjolein van Gendt, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij and Stefan Schlobach. Semantic Web Techniques for Multiple Views on Heterogeneous Collections: a Case Study. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2006), Julio Gonzalo, Constantino Thanos, M. Felisa Verdejo and Rafael C. Carrasco (eds.), Springer Verlag, LNCS vol. 4172, pp. 426-437. Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006. Paper, Slides

Invited Talks

2009

• Accessing Cultural Heritage using Semantic Web Techniques (Antoine Isaac). Lecture for the Book and Digital Media Master (Leiden University). The Hague, the Netherlands, March 20, 2009. Slides
• SKOS and vocabularies (Antoine Isaac). Practical Semantic Astronomy workshop (SemAst). Glasgow, Scotland, March 5, 2009. Slides

2008

• Workshop "Semantic Web - Do It Yourself" (Antoine Isaac, with Christian Wartena). Digital Erfgoed (Cultural Heritage) conference. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2008. Slides
• On practical aspects of enhancing semantic interoperability using SKOS and KOS alignment (Antoine Isaac). ISKO UK event on Sharing vocabularies on the web via Simple Knowledge Organization Sytems. London, July 20, 2008. Slides
• Sémantique et interopérabilité (Antoine Isaac). Journée d'étude BnF / AFNOR CG46 Référentiels, données d'autorité, thésaurus, ontologies, taxonomies... Pour en savoir plus ! Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, March 28, 2008. Slides
• Accessing Cultural Heritage using Semantic Web Techniques (Antoine Isaac). Lecture for the Book and Digital Media Master (Leiden University). The Hague, the Netherlands, March 20, 2008. Slides
• Semantic Interoperability in Cultural Heritage (Shenghui Wang). Advanced SIKS Course: Web-based Systems: a semantic perspective, Vught, the Netherlands, Mar 4, 2008. Slides

2007

• Standards for the Representation of Knowledge on the Semantic Web. MPI eScience Seminare, Offene Archivierbare Formate. Max Plank Digital Library, Berlin, Oct 25, 2007. Slides
• Web sémantique et intéropérabilité des vocabulaires conceptuels (rapport sur la collaboration STITCH/BnF). Journée de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) sur les moteurs de recherche sémantiques et le web sémantique. Bussy-Saint-Georges, Oct 2, 2007. Slides
• Publishing Vocabularies on the Web (Antoine Isaac with Guus Schreiber). NETTAB 2007 workshop on A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications. Pisa, Italy, June 14, 2007. Slides
• Aligning Thesauri for an integrated Access to Cultural Heritage Collections (Antoine Isaac). Information Access for the Global Community: an International Seminar on the Universal Decimal Classification. The Hague, the Netherlands, June 5, 2007. Slides
• Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections using Semantic Web Techniques (Antoine Isaac). Lecture for the Book and Digital Media Master (Leiden University). The Hague, the Netherlands, March 2, 2007. Slides
• Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections using Semantic Web Techniques (Antoine Isaac). SIKS-ICS (Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge systems) Seminar on the Semantic Web. Utrecht, the Netherlands. Slides

2006

• Semantic Interoperability to Access Cultural Heritage (Presentation of the STITCH project) (Antoine Isaac). Amsterdam Cultural Heritage Exchange (ACHE). Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 30, 2006. Slides

2005

• Mark van Assem, Antoine Isaac. SKOS Tutorial. CATCH day, The Hague, the Netherlands, November 25, 2005. Slides
• Marjolein van Gendt, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij. Semantic Interoperability to Access Cultural Heritage. Poster presentation at Scientific ICT Research Event Netherlands (SIREN). Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 6, 2005. Poster
• Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections using Semantic Web Techniques (Antoine Isaac). Digital Erfgoed (Cultural Heritage) conference. Arnhem, the Netherlands, November 10, 2005. Slides

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