RUBEN VERBORGH

Ruben Verborgh. I’m a professor of Decentralized Web technology at IDL ab, Ghent University – imec, and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group of CSAIL at MIT. I’ m also a technology advocate for Inrupt, supporting the Solid ecosystem that GETTING MY PERSONAL DATA OUT OF FACEBOOK Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Getting my personal data out of Facebook I left Facebook, and all I got was this lousy legalese.. In January 2019, I closed my Facebook account because it was no longer of any professional use to me. As a European resident, the GDPR directive gives me the right to request the data Facebook has about me, and ask for its deletion. PROV4ITDATA: TRANSPARENT AND DIRECT TRANSFER OF PERSONAL Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; PROV4ITDaTa: Transparent and direct transfer of personal data to personal stores. by Gertjan De Mulder, Ben De Meester, Pieter Heyvaert, Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh, and Anastasia Dimou. Data is scattered across service providers, heterogeneously structured in

various formats.

CONCLUSION – SERENDIPITOUS WEB APPLICATIONS THROUGH Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Chapter 8 – Conclusion Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia. Serendipity PUBLISHING BASE REGISTRIES AS LINKED DATA EVENT STREAMS Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Publishing base registries as Linked Data Event Streams. by Dwight Van Lancker, Pieter Colpaert, Harm Delva, Brecht Van de Vyvere, Julián Rojas Meléndez, Ruben Dedecker, Philippe Michiels, Raf Buyle, Annelies De Craene, and Ruben Verborgh. BibTeX other citation formats. To be published in 2021 in Proceedings of the 21 th

USING OPENREFINE

Using OpenRefine takes you on a practical tour of all the handy features of this well-known data transformation tool. It is a hands-on recipe book that teaches you data techniques by example. Starting from the basics, it gradually transforms you into an OpenRefine expert. This book will teach you all the necessary skills to handle any large APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Apologizing is a polite and functional act of com­muni­cation: it helps people to let go any negative sentiments you may have caused. However, communication is only effective when it is actually meant to help others, not to help yourself. We sometimes send messages out of habit, which strangely can give them the opposite effect than was intended by adopting that habit. ASYNCHRONOUS ERROR HANDLING IN JAVASCRIPT Dealing with errors can be especially tricky in asynchronous situations Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so we better prepare ourselves. The lessons we’ve been taught as programmers to nicely throw and catch exceptions don’t apply anymore in asynchronous environments PROGRAMMING IS AN ART THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION The people who paid attention deliberately chose to do so, as your message made them curious and they are eager to understand the arguments. They’ll thank you for explaining. People who do not care about this particular message will not pay attention, they’ll thank you for not wasting their time with a disappointing cliffhanger.

RUBEN VERBORGH

Ruben Verborgh. I’m a professor of Decentralized Web technology at IDL ab, Ghent University – imec, and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group of CSAIL at MIT. I’ m also a technology advocate for Inrupt, supporting the Solid ecosystem that GETTING MY PERSONAL DATA OUT OF FACEBOOK Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Getting my personal data out of Facebook I left Facebook, and all I got was this lousy legalese.. In January 2019, I closed my Facebook account because it was no longer of any professional use to me. As a European resident, the GDPR directive gives me the right to request the data Facebook has about me, and ask for its deletion. PROV4ITDATA: TRANSPARENT AND DIRECT TRANSFER OF PERSONAL Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; PROV4ITDaTa: Transparent and direct transfer of personal data to personal stores. by Gertjan De Mulder, Ben De Meester, Pieter Heyvaert, Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh, and Anastasia Dimou. Data is scattered across service providers, heterogeneously structured in

various formats.

CONCLUSION – SERENDIPITOUS WEB APPLICATIONS THROUGH Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Chapter 8 – Conclusion Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia. Serendipity PUBLISHING BASE REGISTRIES AS LINKED DATA EVENT STREAMS Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Publishing base registries as Linked Data Event Streams. by Dwight Van Lancker, Pieter Colpaert, Harm Delva, Brecht Van de Vyvere, Julián Rojas Meléndez, Ruben Dedecker, Philippe Michiels, Raf Buyle, Annelies De Craene, and Ruben Verborgh. BibTeX other citation formats. To be published in 2021 in Proceedings of the 21 th

USING OPENREFINE

Using OpenRefine takes you on a practical tour of all the handy features of this well-known data transformation tool. It is a hands-on recipe book that teaches you data techniques by example. Starting from the basics, it gradually transforms you into an OpenRefine expert. This book will teach you all the necessary skills to handle any large APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Apologizing is a polite and functional act of com­muni­cation: it helps people to let go any negative sentiments you may have caused. However, communication is only effective when it is actually meant to help others, not to help yourself. We sometimes send messages out of habit, which strangely can give them the opposite effect than was intended by adopting that habit. ASYNCHRONOUS ERROR HANDLING IN JAVASCRIPT Dealing with errors can be especially tricky in asynchronous situations Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so we better prepare ourselves. The lessons we’ve been taught as programmers to nicely throw and catch exceptions don’t apply anymore in asynchronous environments PROGRAMMING IS AN ART THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION The people who paid attention deliberately chose to do so, as your message made them curious and they are eager to understand the arguments. They’ll thank you for explaining. People who do not care about this particular message will not pay attention, they’ll thank you for not wasting their time with a disappointing cliffhanger.

RUBEN VERBORGH

Ruben Verborgh. I’m a professor of Decentralized Web technology at IDL ab, Ghent University – imec, and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group of CSAIL at MIT. I’ m also a technology advocate for Inrupt, supporting the Solid ecosystem that

USING OPENREFINE

Using OpenRefine takes you on a practical tour of all the handy features of this well-known data transformation tool. It is a hands-on recipe book that teaches you data techniques by example. Starting from the basics, it gradually transforms you into an OpenRefine expert. This book will teach you all the necessary skills to handle any large PUBLISHING BASE REGISTRIES AS LINKED DATA EVENT STREAMS Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Publishing base registries as Linked Data Event Streams. by Dwight Van Lancker, Pieter Colpaert, Harm Delva, Brecht Van de Vyvere, Julián Rojas Meléndez, Ruben Dedecker, Philippe Michiels, Raf Buyle, Annelies De Craene, and Ruben Verborgh. BibTeX other citation formats. To be published in 2021 in Proceedings of the 21 th A DATA ECOSYSTEM FOSTERS SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION An alternative under active exploration is an ecosystem of personal data, in which every person has their own personal data vault, which we refer to as a data pod. I will first explain what a data pod is and what it does, before discussing how it enables innovators to play in a A WEB API ECOSYSTEM THROUGH FEATURE-BASED REUSE The fast-growing Web API landscape brings clients more options than ever before— in theory. In practice, they cannot easily switch between different providers offering similar functionality. We discuss a vision for developing Web APIs based on reuse of interface parts called features.Through the introduction of 5 design principles, we investigate the impact of feature-based reuse on Web APIs. DECENTRALIZING THE SEMANTIC WEB THROUGH INCENTIVIZED Decentralizing the Semantic Web through incentivized collaboration. Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University – imec – IDLab. 11 October 2018. Personal data is being centralized at an unprecedented scale, and this comes with widely known and far-reaching consequences, considering the recent data scandals with companies such as Equifax and Facebook. STREAMLINING GOVERNMENTAL PROCESSES BY PUTTING CITIZENS IN Ruben Verborgh. blog; publications; articles; teaching; contact; Streamlining Governmental Processes by Putting Citizens in Control of Their Personal Data. by Raf Buyle, Ruben Taelman, Katrien Mostaert, Geroen Joris, Erik Mannens, Ruben Verborgh, and Tim Berners-Lee. Governments typically store large amounts of personal information on their citizens, such as a home address, marital status, and

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RUBEN VERBORGH – PROFESSOR OF DECENTRALIZED WEB TECHNOLOGY > Let’s redefine the relation between people, apps, and data. By > taking control of our data flow, we take control of our choices. > Privacy is nothing but a byproduct of sustainable innovation.

> Ruben Verborgh

I’m a professor of Decentralized Web technology at IDLab

, Ghent University

– imec , and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group of CSAIL

at MIT . I’m also

a technology advocate for Inrupt , supporting the Solid ecosystem that gives you back control and choice—online and offline. I love discussing about the WEB, LINKED DATA, DECENTRALIZATION, WEB APIS, HYPERMEDIA CLIENTS, and

much more.

We are entering the post-Big Data era, where companies realize that data harvesting as a business model is a dead end. The future consists of LOTS OF SMALL DATA that is _linked_

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PEOPLE WILL BE IN CONTROL of _where_ they store their data and _who_ they share it with, independently of the apps they use. In such a world, we can choose to _spend_ our data on innovative apps

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instead of loosing our time to those who hold our data hostage. I’m researching technologies that enable us to EFFECT THIS SOCIO-ECONOMIC

CHANGE.

Of course, I PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH and publish my own data as Linked Open Data

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data live on the Web, even across

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I’m also working on getting my personal data out of Facebook

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BLOG

If you’re into Linked Data

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just curious, check out my latest blog posts : Shaping Linked Data apps Decentralized apps will need a lot of flexibility, which they will gain through data shapes. Designing a Linked Data developer experience Making decentralized Web app development fun. Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web As separate markets for data and apps emerge, Web development needs to

adopt a new shape.

PROJECTS

I’m involved in several projects, including: * Solid Use the apps you need, store your data where you want. * Linked Data Fragments Query Linked Data on a Web scale by moving intelligence to the client. * RDF Mapping Language (RML) Combine data from heterogeneous sources through the power of Linked Data.

PUBLICATIONS

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LDflex: a Read/Write Linked Data Abstraction for Front-End Web Developers conference Ruben Verborgh and Ruben Taelman 2020 Proceedings of the 19th International Semantic Web Conference details

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Statistics about Data Shape Use in RDF Data

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Sven Lieber, Anastasia Dimou, and Ruben Verborgh 2020 Proceedings of the 19th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters, Demos, and Industry Tracks details

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Context-Aware Route Planning: a Personalized and Situation-Aware Multi-Modal Transport Routing Approach

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Pieter Bonte, Mathias De Brouwer, Dörthe Arndt, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Heyvaert, Anastasia Dimou, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Filip De Turck, and Femke Ongenae 2020 Proceedings of the 19th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters, Demos, and Industry Tracks details

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Optimizing Approximate Membership Metadata in Triple Pattern Fragments for Clients and Servers workshop Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Miel Vander Sande, and Ruben

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Decentralized Open Data Publishing for the Public Transport Route Planning Ecosystem chapter Julián Rojas Meléndez, Bert Marcelis, Eveline Vlassenroot, Mathias Van Compernolle, Pieter Colpaert, and Ruben Verborgh 2020 Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts details

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