Keynote Lecture
Keynote Lecture
Christian Bizer
University of Mannheim
Germany
Brief Bio
Christian Bizer explores technical and empirical questions concerning the development of global, decentralized information environments. His research focus is the evolution of the World Wide Web from a medium for the publication of documents into a global dataspace. Christian Bizer has co-founded the DBpedia project which derives a comprehensive knowledge graph from Wikipedia. He initialized the WebDataCommons project which monitors the adoption of schema.org, JSON-LD, RDFa, Microdata, and Microformats on the Web by analyzing large Web crawls. His technical research focuses on the integration of data from large numbers of Web data sources and includes topics such as information extraction, identity resolution, schema matching, data fusion, and data search. Christian Bizer is full professor at the University of Mannheim where he leads Web-based Systems group. http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/bizer