Boek 5/Blog: Martin Kaltenbock - Experiences on the PLDN 2013 – 2017

My first contact with the Platform Linked Data Netherland, PLDN, was an email by Erwin Folmer getting in touch with a request to re-use parts of the Linked Open Data - The Essentials publication in April 2013 that I could answer positively, as the whole book was published under an open license (CC-By 3.0 Austria). So parts of the LOD book were reused for a LOD publication of PLDN published at the PLDN conference in July 2013.

In the course of the conversation with Erwin he told me more about the PLDN: about ideas, objectives and activities and he furthermore invited me to an PLDN event in January 2014 at the VU in Amsterdam to present the LOD Pilot Austria as well as to participate in a discussion and hands-on session on Linked Data Tools as being a team member of the LOD2 project.

This event was a starting point to learn to know this very vital Dutch Linked Data community and for staying in touch for the following years! Meeting Erwin in person and discussing about our enthusiasm about the potentials of Linked Data, discussing with Frank van Harmelen (VU) the potential of LOD as a national infrastructure and - beside others - learning to know Lieke Verhelst (Linked Data Factory) and Jan Voskuil (Taxonic), who both became partners of our product PoolParty Semantic Suite.

This started a series of talks I gave at PLDN meetings. After Amsterdam I could speak in June 2014 with Christian Dirschl about using PoolParty Semantic Suite at Wolters Kluwer and in September 2015 together with Eelco Kruizinger about Linked Data based services for CTCN.

And at any time at such meetings, in calls and other conversation with the PLDN, I was excited about so much enthusiasm and hands-on mentality to experiment and apply Linked (Open) Data principles and technologies by an audience from industry, academia and public administration.

We also started quickly a cooperation between PLDN and SEMANTiCS conference series. Erwin joined the organising committee and PLDN promoted the European Linked Data Contest 2015 across the Netherlands. Both prizes went to the Netherlands: NXP Semiconductors and Open PHACTS were awarded at SEMANTiCS2015 in Vienna - what an acknowledgement for PLDN.

And finally SEMANTiCS comes to the Netherlands. Taking place 11-14.9. 2017 in Amsterdam, co-organised by the VU, TNO, the Kadaster and in co-operation with PLDN. I really hope to meet the PLDN community there again and that this can be a starting point for linking data activities between the Netherlands and Austria for the next 4 years.

Martin Kaltenböck
Managing Partner & CFO at Semantic Web Company (www.semantic-web.at)

Platform Linked Data Nederland (PLDN)

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