Hi!
I'm Ruben Taelman, a Web researcher at IDLab,
with a focus on decentralization, Linked Data publishing and querying.

My goal is to make data accessible for everyone by providing intelligent infrastructure and algorithms for data publication and retrieval.

Have a look at my publications or projects
and contact me if any of those topics interest you.

Latest blog posts

• A story of streaming RDF parsers
  How I implemented streaming JSON-LD and RDF/XML parsers in JavaScript.
  13 March 2019
  

  Multiple serialization formats are currently being recommended by the W3C to represent RDF. JSON-LD and RDF/XML are examples of RDF serializations that are respectively based on the JSON and XML formats. The ability to parse RDF serializations in a streaming way offers many advantages, such as handling huge documents with only a limited amount of memory, and processing elements as soon as they are parsed. In this post, I discuss the motivation behind my streaming parser implementations for JSON-LD and RDF/XML, their architecture, and I show some live examples.

Highlighted publications

1. Conference Comunica: a Modular SPARQL Query Engine for the Web
   Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference
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2. Journal Triple Storage for Random-Access Versioned Querying of RDF Archives
   Ruben Taelman, Miel Vander Sande, Joachim Van Herwegen, Erik Mannens, Ruben Verborgh
   In Journal of Web Semantics
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3. Journal Generating Public Transport Data based on Population Distributions for RDF Benchmarking
   Ruben Taelman, Pieter Colpaert, Erik Mannens, Ruben Verborgh
   In Semantic Web Journal
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4. Conference Continuous Client-Side Query Evaluation over Dynamic Linked Data
   Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh, Pieter Colpaert, Erik Mannens
   In The Semantic Web: ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
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Latest publications

1. Position Statement Bridges between GraphQL and RDF
   Ruben Taelman, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data
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2. Conference Comunica: a Modular SPARQL Query Engine for the Web
   Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference
   More
3. Demo GraphQL-LD: Linked Data Querying with GraphQL
   Ruben Taelman, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demos
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4. Demo Demonstration of Comunica, a Web framework for querying heterogeneous Linked Data interfaces
   Joachim Van Herwegen, Ruben Taelman, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demos
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5. Workshop The Fundamentals of Semantic Versioned Querying
   Ruben Taelman, Hideaki Takeda, Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Verborgh
   In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference
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