Want to follow a course in #Interoperability, #LinkedData and #KnowledgeGraphs in Ghent? In February 2026, we relaunch our course on Knowledge Graphs, open to both master’s students and made available as micro-credential to professionals. Enrol here: www.ugain.ugent.be/MCKG2026.htm

Call for papers alert! The 4th Semantics in Dataspaces organized together with the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) welcomes contributions trying to solve one of our W3C Community Group’s challenges! dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS26/ #semantics #knowledgegraphs #dataspaces

Today we’re organising the closing event of #SolidLab, where we’ll launch the continuation of the community as #Trustflows. We’re still working on #interoperability, but we’re now adding #legalcompliance and #trust as major drivers, continuing the mission we started with Solid. trustflows.eu

Standardization isn’t something you can just throw effort at and expect it to deliver. I often compare it to writing a hit song: being good helps, having a great marketing strategy helps, timing helps, having some funding helps, and so on.

Next Monday we’re organizing the closing event of the SolidLab research project in De Krook - Ghent, where we’ll launch our next steps with the #Trustflows community. Registration and program: solidcommunity.be/events/solid... The charter of the new community: trustflows.eu/charter

“U bent uitgelogd want u was te lang niet actief” - soms heb ik het gevoel dat sommige systemen niet gebouwd worden voor mensen met kinderen.

There’s a tension between being semantically rich, and being semantically aligned. Eventual #interoperability is a new term I propose to indicate that you can do one after the other pietercolpaert.be/interoperabi...

On my way to the network of interoperability event of Digital Flanders

📢 Call for Submissions Open! Join us for #SEMANTiCS2026. Let's discuss the future of #LinkedData & #Semantic #AI! 📍Ghent, BE 📅 Sept 15-17, 2026 🔹 Research & Innovation 🔹 Industry & Use Case 🔹 Posters & Demos 🔹 Workshops & Tutorials Calls: 2026-eu.semantics.cc Please, share! #SemanticsConf

Want to follow a course in #Interoperability, #LinkedData and #KnowledgeGraphs in Ghent? In February 2026, we relaunch our course on Knowledge Graphs, open to both master’s students and made available as micro-credential to professionals. Enrol here: www.ugain.ugent.be/MCKG2026.htm

I am also gradually coming round to the view that interaction between humans/client apps and (perhaps multiple) AI agents is a state synchronisation problem that probably needs CRDTs lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/22/l...

The #SEMANTiCS conference serves as a forum for discussing advances in linked data and semantic-enabled #AI systems. For latest updates, follow us on: www.linkedin.com/company/sema..., @semantics-conf.bsky.social, sigmoid.social/@semantics, & x.com/SemanticsConf. SEE YOU IN #GHENT! #Semantics2026

Next week we’re hosting the second in-person #LDES workshop at #SEMIC2025. Piotr Sowiński will be the keynote speaker. He developed Jelly, a binary RDF format for syncing RDF datasets at speeds we can only aspire to. What is his opinion about the work we’re doing? What can we learn from eachother?

Oh boy it’s time (again)! My long awaited Pebble arrived! Quite a remarkable story for a product, that’s now an open source and open hardware project. Follow @ericmigi.com on the topic!

In de categorie producten waar ik een grote fan van ben: pizzabol.com

Toch bizar hoe na al die jaren er amper innovatie is geweest in weerstations voor thuis, en hoe die dingen er verdorie lelijk blijven uitzien. Iemand een suggestie die er mooier uitziet, liefst met open data/open source/open hardware?

Any hardware geeks in my network? This is quite cool 👇

Our Knowledge on Web-Scale team is at #ISWC2025! 🎉 We’re sharing work on link prioritization, time functions in SPARQL, low-code ODRL tools, Trustflows, queryable VCs, client-side federation, plus tutorials on RDF/SPARQL 1.2 and RDF-Connect pipelines.

Op zoek naar een locatie in centrum Gent waar je reservatie kan doen om te eten/drinken met 75-tal mensen, waarbij iedere tafel apart afrekent. Patrick Foley‘s geen optie: willen enkel in 1 keer afrekenen.

Sadly there are only 25 hours in a day

Haha! I must confess I also do this

Lap, heb ik nu een groot gezin gemaakt, valt mijn korting weg www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Named graphs in #RDF (2014) are still controversial after all this time and I don’t think they should be. While their semantics were left open, functionally we all use them as contextual assertions anyway. Prove me wrong 🤓 👉 pietercolpaert.be/linkeddata/2... #linkeddata #knowledgegraphs

the expert group on the Next Generation European Interoperability Framework (EIF) I’m part of is launching a survey to take your ideas into account. Do you have ideas about interoperability governance? Help us out: interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/c...

On my way home after a fruitful #semantics2025! During the closing ceremony I had to honour to invite the audience to #semantics2026 in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. See you next year in Ghent!

As Linked Data practitioners we know vocabularies and shapes, but that’s not enough. Full interoperability needs two more artefacts: reusable interaction patterns across domains, and implementation guides to help developers avoid endless choices. Long read: pietercolpaert.be/interoperabi...

Tomorrow it’s #semantics2025! Looking fwd to the keynote of Hannah Bast, the developer workshop, the RDF-Connect tutorial, the #sem4tra2025 workshop on semantics in transport, and the next generation data governance workshop! 🚀

Our latest #OpenHPS update enables developers to stream processed (location) data to #Solid using Linked Data Event Streams ( #LDES ). Simply adding a sink to an OpenHPS model is all it takes to enable this in existing positioning systems. Read more in our blog post ... openhps.org/posts/2025/0...

Next week, we’re organizing the RDF-Connect tutorial at @semantics-conf.bsky.social, so today we’re testing out the tutorial at the office and with the partners of our #DiSHACLed project! 👉 rdf-connect.github.io #semantics2025

One-off integrations don’t scale. We need higher ambitions as data providers building 1️⃣ within an ecosystem (JSON Schemas, strict API contracts, ...) 2️⃣ across ecosystems (RDF vocabularies, SHACL profiles, reusable API features) 3️⃣ inter-engine (AI agents & logic) 👉 pietercolpaert.be/interoperabi...

Many data provides believe there are only 2 choices when publishing data: a dump or an API. In this post I explain how dumps lead to a replication hell, while APIs lead to a maintenance hell. We try fighting this status quo with the #SEMIC LDES initiative. pietercolpaert.be/ldes/2021/09...

België zou over #ChatControl eens duidelijk in het NEE-kamp kunnen gaan staan, en daar blijven, in plaats van telkens het probleem vooruit te porren en te hopen dat er de onvermijdelijke volgende keer minder ophef rond is.

This guy... Live blogging how he is creating the best smartwatch out there. Had to recover trademarks, had to ask Google to open-source the original Pebble software, is talking about all the small design details while visiting the production floor in Shenzhen, etc. ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-...

Recent EFarmz ontdekt en we zijn grote fan! Maaltijdboxen met goeie recepten die ons en de kinderen blijven verrassen met groentjes zoals groentjes moeten zijn – lokaal en vol smaak www.efarmz.be/nl

Please support our research on data ownership, privacy and security in IoT tools by participating in the following survey: vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @wise.vub.ac.be #IoT #survey #VUB

Onze Hibiscus bloeit altijd exact op de eerste dag van de Gentse Feesten. Zo weten we dat ook weer #gf25

🚨 Great news!Travel grants are available for #SEMANTiCS2025 in Vienna! 🎓 Students, early-career researchers & participants from ITC countries,this is your chance! ✈️ Don't miss the support from @goblin_cost & apply now! 👉 2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/travel_... #KnowledgeGraphs #TravelGrant #SemanticWeb

Er zitten grondbijen tussen mijn aardbeien. Ik voel een gemiste kans qua naamgeving.

Omdat er minder kans is op letsels is er volgens deze auteur geen enkel argument meer om helmplicht voor fietsers niet in te voeren. Dat is uiteraard een denkfout: er is nog minder kans als je fietsen gewoon afschaft, maar daarom schaffen we dat uiteraard niet af.

Okay, take my money! I just pre-ordered this. I cannot believe how much this resonates with me: eight years after Pebble watches were discontinued after the IP was sold to Fitbit, there is still no smartwatch alternative that comes close. repebble.com

The word is out. Gent organiseert terug een #datadive. Deze keer over #mobiliteit? Werk jij graag met #data over #Gent? Of wil je er meer over weten? Kom dan zeker langs. 't Is gratis, maar inschrijven is verplicht #opendata #datadelen

Tomorrow, 22d of May, the #SEMIC Community Workshop on Linked Data Event Streams will take place: we’ll have duo presentations with each time someone representing a producer, with right after getting the consumer’s perpective. interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/s...

🚨 Last chance! Submit your abstracts for #SEMANTiCS2025 ⚠️Submissions close today!! 📝 Full papers due May 27 — don’t miss out! 🔗 Submit now: easychair.org/conferences/... #SemanticsConf #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #AI

Did you know that many journalists around the world rely on our work for their stories? Giving journalists and others what they need to do good work is a key part of our impact. In a new article, we share how a data journalist at The Economist, @sondreus.bsky.social, uses Our World in Data:

Bedankt Rik! mastodon.social/@pietercolpa...

Welkom @petradesutter.bsky.social als rector van UGent! www.ugent.be/en/news-even...

Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 22) I will be giving a talk about my work at Wintercircus in Ghent! Everyone is more than welcome to attend. We start at 19:00. I hope to see you there! portal.wintercircus.be/nl_BE/event/...

👍 voor de @tijd.be, maar dit is toch godgeklaagd?! Met overheidsgeld gefinancierd onderzoek zou -in regel- altijd binnen afzienbare tijd publiek moeten gemaakt worden. En uiteraard mag de uitvoerende macht eventuele methodologische bedenkingen mee publiceren. www.tijd.be/politiek-eco...

@stad-gent.bsky.social Hoe voer je hier aarde af? Op de website van Ivago staat er enkel dat je er niet terecht mee kunt bij hen

📢 SEMANTiCS 2025: Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations 📍 Vienna, Austria | Sept 3-5, 2025 🗓️ Submission: May 14 🗓️ Notification: June 13 🗓️ Presentation Ready: August 18 More info on the website: 2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/industry #SemanticsConf #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #AI