Ben De Meester
Postdoctoral researcher
Biography
Ben De Meester is a post-doctoral researcher at IDLab, UGent – imec, Belgium, researching high-quality Knowledge Graph generation and publishing. Next to publications in top conferences and journals, he actively applies his research and systems in diverse R&D use cases for companies. He is one of the leads of https://rml.io/ and https://fno.io/.
The Knowledge on Web Scale (KNoWS) research unit is part of IDLab, a research group of imec, embedded in Ghent University, focusing on integrating and publishing various datasets on the Web, with a long-standing track record in Semantic Web research. KnoWS covers the full data management ecosystem to generate Linked Data (e.g RML), publish these using a Web API (e.g. LDF), enable feedback (e.g. Solid), and query the data while performing reasoning (e.g. N3, MASSIF, Roxi & Comunica). KNoWS is a world top-3 Semantic Web research lab, invaluable to the Solid project as they spearhead – together with MIT & Sir Tim Berners-Lee – in Solid protocols and Solid-related technical research. IDLab has a history of participating in W3C standards, e.g. Media Fragments, PROV, LDES, Solid, N3 & Linked Data Platform.