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2026-10-05

Amira De Winter joins KNoWS

Amira De Winter joins KNoWS as a PhD student.

2026-09-10

KNoWS at SEMANTiCS 2026

SEMANTiCS 2026 is taking place from the 15th till the 17th of September in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2026-05-18

Robbe Claeys joins KNoWS

Robbe Claeys joins KNoWS as a PhD student.

2026-04-29

KNoWS at ESWC 2026

ESWC 2026 is taking place from the 10th till the 14th of May in sunny Dubrovnik, Croatia. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2026-01-13

Marlin Kisia joins KNoWS

Marlin Kisia joins KNoWS as a PhD student.

2025-12-11

Best Scientific Paper Award at DBP 2025

KNoWS got the Best Scientific Paper Award at DBP for their paper about personalized workflows for building permit applications.

2025-11-07

Rule Challenge Best Paper Award at RuleML+RR 2025

KNoWS got the Rule Challenge Best Paper Award at RuleML+RR 2025 for their paper about pre-compiling rules into a high-Level imperative language for top-down reasoning (Fun3).

2025-11-03

KNoWS at ISWC 2025

ISWC 2025 is taking place from the 2nd till the 6th of November in Nara, Japan. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2025-09-01

Mathijs' Research Stay: Developing Temporal Reasoning at Oxford University

We worked out the idea to embed the temporal reasoning of DatalogMTL into existing non-temporal reasoners.

2025-08-14

Raf Buyle joins KNoWS full-time

Raf Buyle joins KNoWS full-time and will focus on international relations, and innovation around data and trust.

2025-06-20

Jitse's ESWC 2025 trip report

Jitse had the opportunity to attend ESWC. With this post, he shares my experience as a new PhD student.

2025-06-19

Best Research Paper Award for KNoWS at ESWC 2025

KNoWS got the Best Research Paper Award at ESWC 2025. We also got nominated for the Best Resource Paper Award.

2025-06-12

Elias' Research Stay: Semantic Biological & Health Data in Switzerland

This spring, I had the opportunity to embark on a two-month-long research stay in Switzerland, hosted by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. My overarching goal was to to communicate my work on using personal data pods for the storage of sensitive genomic and health data, explore conversion and querying strategies for complex genomic data represented in semantically rich formats, and collaborate with experts.

2025-05-30

KNoWS at ESWC 2025

ESWC 2025 is taking place from the 1st till the 5th of June in sunny Portorož, Slovenia. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2024-12-24

KNoWS at ISWC 2024

The KNoWS team travelled to Baltimore, USA to attend ISWC 2024 and present their work.

2024-12-11

Julián's ISWC 2024 trip report

The ISWC conference faced organizational issues and was dominated by LLM-related papers, some of which were criticized for technical flaws. However, there were valuable presentations, especially on integrating LLMs with knowledge graphs and advances in graph data management, such as Prof. Domagoj Vrgoč's work on graph join algorithms. Despite the challenges, networking was still beneficial, and Julián believes their research will remain relevant amid the growing focus on LLMs.

2024-11-07

Emma Nuyts joins KNoWS as PhD student

Emma Nuyts joins KNoWS as PhD student. She will working on the BOCEMON project which aims at converting office buildings into more sustainable and comfortable spaces.

2024-10-17

Jitse De Smet joins KNoWS as PhD student

Jitse De Smet joins KNoWS as PhD student. He will be working onoOptimizing write Performance in decentralized personal data ecosystems.

2024-09-11

Pol Nachtergaele joins KNoWS as PhD student

Pol Nachtergaele joins KNoWS as PhD student. He will be working on implementing Solid technology within the healthcare sector.

2024-08-21

Shehab Ayman joins KNoWS as PhD student

Shehab Ayman joins KNoWS as PhD student. He will focus on establishing data standards and API governance framework in the field of water reuse along with developing a data portal for consumer / producer data exchange.

2024-07-29

Two awards for KNoWS at ESWC 2024

KNoWS got Best Doctoral Symposium Paper and Best Reviewer Awards at ESWC 2024.

2024-07-29

Three awards for KNoWS at ISWS 2024

Ieben Smessaert and Elias Crum attended ISWS 2024. Elias got the Best Poster, Best Scientific Report awards, together with 2nd place for best presentation.

2024-05-17

KNoWS at ESWC 2024

ESWC 2023 is taking place from the 26th till the 30th of May in sunny Hersonissos, Greece. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2024-02-20

Are Knowledge Graphs Ready for the Real World? Dylan’s Dagstuhl Trip Report

Dylan Van Assche’s trip report on the "Are Knowledge Graphs Ready for the Real World? Challenges and Perspective" Dagstuhl Seminar of Ferbruary 2024

2024-01-15

Beatriz Esteves joins KNoWS as postdoc

Beatriz Esteves joins KNoWS as postdoc. She will be working on policies and interfaces.

2023-10-30

KNoWS at ISWC 2023

ISWC 2023 is taking place from the 6th till the 10th of November in Athens, Greece. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2023-10-16

Danica D'hont joins KNoWS as delivery manager

Danica D'hont joins KNoWS as delivery manager.

2023-10-02

Wouter Termont joins KNoWS as senior researcher

Wouter Termont joins KNoWS as senior researcher. He will be working on Solid specifications.

2023-09-11

Ieben Smessaert joins KNoWS as PhD student

Ieben Smessaert joins KNoWS as PhD student. He will be working on policies and interfaces in Linked Data and Solid.

2023-07-03

Get started with Linked Data & Solid with our VAIA/UGain course

You can now register for the second edition of our Linked Data and Solid course!

2023-06-26

Pieter Bonte and Ruben Taelman receive FWO senior postdoctoral fellowships

Not one but two of our post-docs received a FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship: Pieter Bonte and Ruben Taelman.

2023-06-19

CERN knows KNoWS

On March 13 and 14, 2023, Ruben Dedecker and Patrick Hochstenbach of the KNoWS team visited CERN to present two lectures for the '2nd Series on Data Protection' event.

2023-06-12

Three awards for KNoWS at ESWC 2023

KNoWS got the Best Demo, Best Doctoral Symposium Paper, and Best Poster Awards at ESWC 2023.

2023-05-25

KNoWS at ESWC 2023

ESWC 2023 is taking place from the 28th of May till the 1st of June in sunny Hersonissos, Greece. Find out who of our team will attend to present our papers and talk about our research.

2021-08-19

Working with calendars in Community Solid Server

We show you can define different types of calendars based on your existing calendars and share them with others using the Community Solid Server.