I believe in a Web on which
clients possess more intelligence
than the servers they use.

Ruben Verborgh semantic hypermedia researcher

I'm a researcher in semantic hypermedia at Data Science Lab, a group within iMinds and Ghent University, and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. I love to discuss about the Semantic Web, hypermedia clients, Web APIs, Linked Data, Web architecture, and much more. If you like these things too, then we should talk.

My belief is that if we want to see intelligent clients, we should stop trying to build intelligent servers. We should shift our focus towards new methods of building clients that emphasize serendipitous reuse of data and functionality.

Blog

If you're into Linked Data, Web APIs, REST, JavaScript, communication, research, or if you're just curious, check out my latest blog posts:

Use the Web instead

Native mobile apps lure us away from the Web under false pretenses, and we shouldn't let them.

Querying history with Linked Data

Combining Triple Pattern Fragments with Memento to query previous dataset versions in the browser.

Turtles all the way down

APIs are more than just data: context and controls also belong in the message.

Projects

I'm involved in the following projects:

Linked Data Fragments

Query Linked Data on a Web scale by moving intelligence to the client.

RESTdesc

Describe your hypermedia APIs so that automated agents can use them.

Free Your Metadata

Open up your precious metadata to the Web.

Reasoning on the Web

Discover Semantic Web reasoning through open source projects.

Distributed Affordance

Create personalized links through semantics and Web APIs.

Publications

Discover the research I'm into through my recent publications:

• workshop Multidimensional Interfaces for Selecting Data within Ordinal Ranges Ruben Taelman, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens Proceedings of the 7^th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data details full text BibTeX
• workshop The Impact of an Extra Feature on the Scalability of Linked Connections Pieter Colpaert, Sander Ballieu, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens Proceedings of the 7^th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data details full text BibTeX
• demo Querying Dynamic Datasources with Continuously Mapped Sensor Data Ruben Taelman, Pieter Heyvaert, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens Proceedings of the 15^th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demos details full text BibTeX
• demo Linked Sensor Data Generation using Queryable RML Mappings Pieter Heyvaert, Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens Proceedings of the 15^th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demos details full text BibTeX
• poster Rule-Based Reasoning using State Space Search Dieter De Paepe, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens Proceedings of the 15^th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demos details full text BibTeX

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