Postdoctoral researcher
- De Boelelaan 1081 (U-350)
- 1081 HV Amsterdam
- Tel: +31 20 59 87740
- Fax: +31 20 598 7728
- m.hildebrand@vu.nl
teaching
I am a researcher in the Web&Media group at the VU University Amsterdam. I investigate information systems that support users in modeling, linking and accessing data on the Web. In 2010 I finished my PhD at the centre Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam on interactive access to heterogeneous linked data.
recent
Quest is a Dutch magazine and website that reports on science for a general audience. For their series research in 1 minute they interviewed me about user tagging.
Amalgame (AMsterdam ALignment GenerAtion MEtatool) is a tool for finding, evaluating and managing vocabulary alignments. We explicitly do not aim to produce 'yet another alignment method' but rather seek to combine existing matching techniques. Our goal is to support data providers, such as cultural heritage institutes, with the alignment of their own vocabularies.
Within the PrestoPrime project I investigate the annotation of audio and video by Web users and the integration of this metadata into video collections.
demo: Waisda? video labeling game
slides: Integrating user-generated metadata into video collections (BBC Nov. 2010)
In April 2010 I successfully defended my Ph.D thesis at the University of Amsterdam.
The MultimediaN E-Culture team developed a research prototype of a semantic search engine for Europeana. Including collections from Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Louvre and the Netherlands Institute for Art History.