KNoWS at ESWC 2026

The 2026 edition of Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is taking place from the 10th till the 14th of May in sunny Dubrovik, Croatia. Some of our team will also be attending to present our papers and talk about our research.

ESWC is a top conference for our team. You'll also see that reflected in the number of contributions, participants, and organization roles we take up. Sitt Min Oo is co-organizing the Knowledge Graph Construction workshop, Wout Slabbinck and Beatriz Esteves are organizing a tutorial on Policy Evaluation and Enforcement on the Web with ODRL, Beatriz is also co-organizing the OPAL workshop, and Pieter Colpaert is co-organizing the Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS) workshop. Pieter is also part of the organization team of the full conference for PhD mentorship beyond the PhD symposium: he'll try to create a welcoming environment for PhD students at the conference.

Who is attending

You will spot the following faces in the ESWC crowd or on stage.

Arthur Vercruysse

PhD Student

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Maarten Vandenbrande

PhD Student

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Marlin Udo Kisia

PhD Student

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Sitt Min Oo

PhD Student

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Elias Crum

PhD Student

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Els de Vleeschauwer

PhD Student

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Jitse De Smet

PhD Student

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Pieter Colpaert

Professor Linked Data and Public Web APIs

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Ruben Dedecker

PhD Student

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Wout Slabbinck

PhD Student

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Ruben Eschauzier

PhD Student

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Shehabeldeen Abdelfatah

PhD Student

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Beatriz Esteves

Postdoctoral Researcher on Policies & Trust

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Ruben Taelman

Post-doctoral Web Researcher

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Papers

It’s Time to Standardize RDF Messages
by Pieter Colpaert, Piotr Sowiński

Monitoring water using an RDF-based Water Data Space
by Shehabeldeen Abdelfatah, Julián Rojas Meléndez, Janelcy Alferes, Pieter Colpaert

Museum Monitoring: an Environmental Monitoring Dataspace Using The Things Network, Solid, and LDES
by Arthur Vercruysse, Ben De Meester, Julián Rojas Meléndez, Dieter Suls

ODRL Policy Chains for the DGA’s Altruism and Intermediation Frameworks
by Marlin Udo Kisia, Gabriela Kurteva, Ruben Verborgh, Beatriz Esteves

Privacy Gets Social: Scalable Watch-Parties across Personal Data Vaults
by Maarten Vandenbrande, Elias Nijs, Pieter Bonte, Femke Ongenae

RML Playground: Online Editing, Validation, and Execution for the RDF Mapping Language
by Els de Vleeschauwer, Arthur Vercruysse, Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert

Solid Cockpit: Data manager, privacy editor, and query facilitator for Solid pods
by Elias Crum, Bart Buelens, Gokhan Ertaylan, Ruben Taelman

Towards ODRL 3.0
by Wouter Termont, Wout Slabbinck, Joachim Van Herwegen, Patrick Hochstenbach, Beatriz Esteves

Published on 2026-04-29