Publications

Selected publications

  1. Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “ChoCo: a Chord Corpus and a Data Transformation Workflow for Musical Harmony Knowledge Graphs”. Scientific Data 10, 641 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02410-w (PDF) (Publisher)
  2. Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Raphaël Troncy. “MIDI2vec: Learning MIDI Embeddings for Reliable Prediction of Symbolic Music Metadata”. Semantic Web — Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 13(3), pp. 60–79 (Special Issue on Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs). IOS Press (2022) (Publisher) (PDF)
  3. Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Pasquale Lisena, Carlos Martínez-Ortiz. “Web Data APIs for Knowledge Graphs: Easing Access to Semantic Data for Application Developers”. Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics, and Knowledge, 12(1), pp.1-118 (2021) (Morgan & Claypool) (DOI)
  4. David Abián, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2022, 21st International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2022) (PDF)
  5. C. Annemieke Romein, Max Kemman, Julie M. Birkholz, James Baker, Michel de Gruijter, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Thorsten Ries, Ruben Ros, Stefania Scagliola. “State of the field: Digital History”. History — The Journal of the Historical Association. Volume 105, Issue 365 (April 2020), pp. 291-312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12969 (2020) (PDF) (HTML)

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2024

  • Chiara Di Bonaventura, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Barbara McGillivray. “Is Explanation All You Need? An Expert Survey on LLM-generated Explanations for Abusive Language Detection”. In: CLiC-it 2024, Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec 04 — 06, 2024, Pisa, Italy (PDF)
  • Yihang Zhao, Bohui Zhang, Xi Hu, Shuyin Ouyang, Jongmo Kim, Nitisha Jain, Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “Improving Ontology Requirements Engineering with OntoChat and Participatory Prompting”. AAAI 2024 Fall Symposium, November 7-9, 2024, Arlington, VA, USA (PDF)
  • Antoine Domingues, Nitisha Jain, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “Bringing back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings : An Interpretability Approach”. In: 18th International Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2024), Barcelona, Spain, September 9-12, 2024 (PDF)
  • Veruska Zamborlini, Leon van Wissen, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Charles van den Heuvel. “On the Choice of Vocabularies for Archival Data”. ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA) Workshop, 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), Enschede, Netherlands, 15-19 July 2024 (PDF)
  • Johanna Walker, Elisavet Koutsiana, Michelle Nwachukwu, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “The Promise and Challenge of Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering: Insights from a Hackathon”. CHI EA ’24: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2024, Article No.: 318, Pages 1–9 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650844 (PDF)
  • Fiorela Ciroku, Jacopo de Berardinis, Jongmo Kim, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Valentina Presutti, Elena Simperl. “RevOnt: Reverse Engineering of Competency Questions from Knowledge Graphs via Language Models”. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. To appear (2024) (PDF)

2023

  • Bohui Zhang, Ioannis Reklos, Nitisha Jain, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Case Study on Wikidata”. In: Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-Trained Language Models (KBC-LM), Workshop @ 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023) (PDF) Semantic Web challenge winner (Track 2)
  • Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “ChoCo: a Chord Corpus and a Data Transformation Workflow for Musical Harmony Knowledge Graphs”. Scientific Data 10, 641 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023–02410-w (PDF) (Publisher)
  • Raia Abu Ahmad, Martin Critelli, Şefika Efeoğlu, Eleonora Mancini, Célian Ringwald, Xinyue Zhang, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Draw Me Like My Triples: Leveraging Generative AI for Wikidata Image Completion”. The 4th Wikidata Workshop, International Semantic Web Conference 2023 (ISWC 2023), 7th November, Athens, Greece (2023) (PDF)
  • Leah Henrickson, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Prompting Meaning: A Hermeneutic Approach to Optimising Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT”. AI & Society, Open Forum (2023) (PDF) (Publisher)
  • Elisavet Koutsiana, Gabriel Maia Rocha Amaral, Neal Reeves, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata”. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Volume 78, 2023, 100799, ISSN 1570-8268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2023.100799 (2023) (PDF) (Publisher)
  • Jacopo de Berardinis, Valentina Anita Carriero, Nitisha Jain, Nicolas Lazzari, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023, 22st International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS volume 14266 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_17 (2023) (PDF) Best Resource paper award nominee
  • Valentina Carriero, Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “The Music Meta Ontology: a flexible semantic model for the interoperability of music metadata”. In: Proceedings of the 24th conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), to appear (2023)
  • Bohui Zhang, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “Towards Explainable Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction with Human-in-the-loop”. 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, June 26 – 30 2023, Munich, Germany (2023)(PDF)
  • Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “The Harmonic Memory: a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns as a trustworthy framework for computational creativity”. In: WWW’23, The Web Conference 2023, Special Track on the Creative Web (2023) (PDF)

2022

  • Barbara McGillivray, Malithi Alahapperuma, Jonathan Cook, Chiara Di Bonaventura, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Gareth Tyson, Steven R. Wilson. “Leveraging time-dependent lexical features for offensive language detection”. In: The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP), Co-located with EMNLP 2022 (2022) (PDF)
  • Jacopo de Berardinis, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “The Music Annotation Pattern”. In: 13th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP2022), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022) (2022) (PDF)
  • Ryan Brate, Minh-Hoang Dang, Fabian Hoppe, Yuan He, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Vijay Sadashivaiah. “Improving Language Model Predictions via Prompts Enriched with Knowledge Graphs”. In: Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG 2022), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022) (2022) (PDF)
  • David Abián, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Elena Simperl. “An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2022, 21st International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 354–374 (2022) (PDF)
  • Elizabeth Black, Martim Brandão, Oana Cocarascu, Bart de Keijzer, Yali Du, Derek Long, Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Luc Moreau, Maria Polukarov, Odinaldo Rodrigues, Carmine Ventre. “Reasoning and interaction for social artificial intelligence”. AI Communications, 35(4), pp. 309-325 (2022). IOS Press (Publisher)
  • Leah Henrickson, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts”. Configurations — Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), 30(2), Spring 2022, pp. 115-139. JHU Press (2022) (PDF) (Publisher)
  • Ioannis Reklos, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “MediCause: Causal Relation Modelling and Extraction from Medical Publications”. In: International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text. Co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2022 (2022) (PDF) Best Text2KG paper award
  • Leah Henrickson, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Between Hermeneutics and Deceit: Keeping Natural Language Generation in Line”. Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield. September 8-10 (2022) (PDF)
  • Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Raphaël Troncy. “MIDI2vec: Learning MIDI Embeddings for Reliable Prediction of Symbolic Music Metadata”. Semantic Web — Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 13(3), pp. 60–79 (Special Issue on Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs). IOS Press (2022) (Publisher) (PDF)

2021

  • Valentina Anita Carriero, Fiorela Ciroku, Jacopo de Berardinis, Delfina Sol Martínez Pandiani, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti. “Semantic Integration of MIR Datasets with the Polifonia Ontology Network”. In: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021), Late Breaking & Demo session (2021) (PDF)
  • Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Raphaël Troncy. “MIDI Representation with Graph Embeddings”. In: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021), Late Breaking & Demo session (2021) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Romana Pernisch, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach. “Multi-domain and Explainable Prediction of Changes in Web Vocabularies”. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2021). 2-3 December, virtual (2021) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Pasquale Lisena, Carlos Martínez-Ortiz. “Web Data APIs for Knowledge Graphs: Easing Access to Semantic Data for Application Developers”. Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics, and Knowledge, 12(1), pp.1-118 (2021) (Morgan & Claypool) (DOI)
  • Enrico Daga, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Enrico Motta. “Sequential Linked Data: the State of Affairs”. Semantic Web — Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 12(6), pp. 82–114. IOS Press (2021) (Publisher) (PDF)
  • Rick Mourits, Ruben Schalk, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Joe Raad, Auke Rijpma, Bram van den Hout, Richard Zijdeman. “Retracing Hotbeds of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic. Spatial Differences in Seasonal Excess Mortality in the Netherlands”. Historical Life Course Studies, 10, pp. 145-150 (2021) (PDF)

2020

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Victor de Boer, Marieke van Erp, Richard Zijdeman, Rick Mourits, Willem Melder, Auke Rijpma, Ruben Schalk. “CLARIAH: Enabling Interoperability Between Humanities Disciplines with Ontologies”. In: Cota, G., Daquino, M., Pozzato, G.L., “Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning”. Studies on the Semantic Web, volume 49, pp. 73–90. ISBN 978-1-64368-142-9, DOI 10.3233/SSW200036 (Publisher) (PDF)
  • Cariña Geerlings, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Interacting with GPT-2 to Generate Controlled and Believable Musical Sequences in ABC Notation”. In: First Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA), October 16, 2020, Montreal. Co-located with ISMIR’2020 (2020). (PDF)
  • Julie Birkholz, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Decomplexifying the network pipeline: a tool for RDF/Wikidata to network analysis”. Digital Humanities Benelux Journal, Vol. 2 (Digital Humanities in Society), n. 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/80sx-m116 (2020) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Dayana Spagnuelo, GPT-2. “Can a Transformer Assist in Scientific Writing? Generating Semantic Web Paper Snippets with GPT-2”. In: 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020), posters & demos. Heraklion, Crete, June 4, 2020 (2020). (PDF)
  • Joe Raad, Rick Mourits, Auke Rijpma, Ruben Schalk, Richard Zijdeman, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Linking Dutch Civil Certificates”. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSe 2020). ESWC 2020, May 31-June 1, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2020). (PDF)
  • C. Annemieke Romein, Max Kemman, Julie M. Birkholz, James Baker, Michel de Gruijter, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Thorsten Ries, Ruben Ros, Stefania Scagliola. “State of the field: Digital History”. History — The Journal of the Historical Association. Volume 105, Issue 365 (April 2020), pp. 291-312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12969 (2020) (PDF) (HTML)
  • Melodee Beals, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Reproducible Humanities Research: Developing Extensible Databases for Recording “Messy” Categorisation, Annotation and Provenance Data”. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2020), Ottawa, July 22-24 (2020). (PDF)

2019

  • Tomer Iwan, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Stefan Schlobach. “Using Melodic Motifs for Automatic Transcription of White Mensural Notation via N-Grams” (poster). 6th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2019), The Hague, November 9 (2019). (PDF)
  • Enrico Daga, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Enrico Motta. “Modelling and Querying Lists in RDF. A Pragmatic Study”. In: 3rd Workshop on Querying and Benchmarking the Web of Data (QuWeDa 2019), ISWC 2019, 18th International Semantic Web Conference (2019). (PDF)
  • Julie Birkholz, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Decomplexifying networks: a tool for RDF to network analysis”. Digital Humanities Benelux Conference (DHBenelux), 11-13 September, Liège (Belgium) (2019). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “FAIR Streams of MIDI Linked Data”. Digital Humanities Benelux Conference (DHBenelux), 11-13 September, Liège (Belgium) (2019). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Enrico Daga. “List.MID: A MIDI-Based Benchmark for Evaluating RDF Lists”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2019, 18th International Semantic Web Conference. Lecutre Notes in Computer Science, vol 11779, pp. 246-260 (2019). (PDF)
  • Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Tobias Kuhn, Raphaël Troncy. “Easy Web API Development with SPARQL Transformer”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2019, 18th International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11779, pp. 454-470 (2019). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Linking MIDI Data for multidisciplinary and FAIR AI on Music”. DARIAH annual conference 2019, Warsaw, 15-17 May (2019). (PDF)
  • Andrea Scharnhorst, Marieke van Erp, Ronald Siebes, Christophe Guéret, Tom Crick, Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Gerard Coen, Richard Smiraglia, Peter Doorn, Henk van den Berg, Jerry de Vries, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Reinier de Valk. “Curating and Archiving Linked Data Datasets from the Humanities – From Data of the Present to Data of the Future”. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2019), Utrecht, July 9-12 (2019). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Marnix van Berchum, Bram van den Hout. “The Oldest Song Score in the Newest Notation: The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal as Linked Data”. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2019), Utrecht, July 9-12 (2019). (PDF)

2018

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Anna Kent-Muller, Reinier de Valk, Marilena Daquino, Enrico Daga. “A Large-Scale Semantic Library of MIDI Linked Data”. Unlocking Musicology Challenge, 5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2018), Paris, September 28 (2018). (PDF)
  • Tobias Kuhn, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Alexander Malic, Jorrit H. Poelen, Allen H. Hurlbert, Emilio Centeno Ortiz, Laura I. Furlong, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Christine Chichester, Juan M. Banda, Egon Willighagen, Friederike Ehrhart, Chris Evelo, Tareq B. Malas, Michel Dumontier. “Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data”. IEEE eScience Conference 2018, 29 October – 1 November, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Valentijn Gilissen, Jan Jonker, Tom Vreugdenhil, Peter Doorn. “Improving Access to the Dutch Historical Censuses with Linked Open Data”. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1), https://doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1163/24523666-01000010  (2018). (PDF) (HTML)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Reinier de Valk, Enrico Daga, Marilena Daquino, Anna Kent-Muller. “The Semantic Web MIDI Tape: An Interface for Interlinking MIDI and Context Metadata”. In: Workshop on Semantic Applications for Audio and Music, ISWC 2018. 9th October 2018, Monterey, California, USA (2018). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Richard Zijdeman, Rinke Hoekstra. “Making Social Science More Reproducible by Encapsulating Access to Linked Data”. In: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2018), 4-7 April, Belfast, North Ireland, UK (2018). (PDF)
  • Rinke Hoekstra, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Auke Rijpma, Richard Zijdeman, Ashkan Ashkpour, Kathrin Dentler, Ivo Zandhuis, Laurens Rietveld. “The dataLegend Ecosystem for Historical Statistics”. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, volume 50, pp. 49-61 (2018). (PDF)

2017

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Accessing Historical and Musical Linked Data”. Journal of Catalan Intellectual History (JOCIH) (2017). https://doi.org/10.1515/jocih-2016-0013
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Richard Zijdeman, Rinke Hoekstra. “Actionable Data Links: Tools for Reproducibility in Social Science and History”. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) (2017). (PDF)
  • Thanos G. Stavropoulos, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Stavros Tachos, Stelios Andreadis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris. “Cross-domain Semantic Drift Measurement in ontologies using the SemaDrift Tool and Metrics”. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2017), 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017), Portoroz, Slovenia, May 28th, 2017 (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “Easing Access to Linked Data Resources for Digital Humanities Scholars”. Demonstration at the Digital Humanities Benelux Conference (DHBenelux), July 1-5, 2017, Utrecht (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “SPARQL2Git: Transparent SPARQL and Linked Data API Curation via Git”. In: Proceedings of the 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017), Poster and Demo Track. Portoroz, Slovenia, May 28th – June 1st, 2017 (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “Automatic Query-centric API for Routine Access to Linked Data”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017, 16th International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10587, pp. 334-339 (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra, Aldo Gangemi, Peter Bloem, Reinier de Valk, Bas Stringer, Berit Janssen, Victor de Boer, Alo Allik, Stefan Schlobach, Kevin Page. “The MIDI Linked Data Cloud”. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017, 16th International Semantic Web Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10587, pp. 156-164 (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Sándor Daranyi, Ioannis Kompatsiaris. “A Study of Intensional Concept Drift in Trending DBpedia Concepts”. In: Detection, Representation and Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data (Drift-A-LOD 2017), Workshop at the SEMANTiCS Conference, Amsterdam, September 11 (2017). (PDF)
  • Rick Meerwaldt, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Stefan Schlobach. “Mixing Music as Linked Data: SPARQL-based MIDI Mashups”. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSe 2017). ISWC 2017, October 22nd, Vienna, Austria (2017). (PDF)
  • Ali Khalili, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “WYSIWYQ — What You See Is What You Query”. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA! 2017). ISWC 2017, October 22nd, Vienna, Austria (2017). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rick Meerwaldt, Stefan Schlobach. “SPARQL-DJ: The MIDI Linked Data Mashup Mixer for Your Next Semantic Party”. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), poster & demo session (2017). (PDF)
  • Marilena Daquino, Enrico Daga, Mathieu D’Aquin, Aldo Gangemi, Simon Holland, Robin Laney, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Paul Mulholland. “Characterizing the Landscape of Musical Data on the Web: State of the art and challenges”. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSe 2017). ISWC 2017, October 22nd, Vienna, Austria (2017). (PDF)
  • Xu Lei, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Huang Zhisheng, Frank van Harmelen. “An Ontology Model for Narrative Image Annotation in the Field of Cultural Heritage”. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSe 2017). ISWC 2017, October 22nd, Vienna, Austria (2017). (PDF)

2016

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Humanists And Scientists: More Alike Than Different”. eHumanities Magazine, number 7, February 2016 (HTML)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour. “Historical Quantitative Reasoning on the Web”. European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2016), Valencia, Spain (2016). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “grlc Makes GitHub Taste Like Linked Data APIs”. SALAD 2016 — Services and Applications over Linked Data APIs and Data. International workshop, ESWC 2016, May 29th, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2016). (PDF) Best SALAD2016 paper award
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “grlc Makes GitHub Taste Like Linked Data APIs”. The Semantic Web – ESWC 2016 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS 9989, pp. 342-353 (2016). (PDF)
  • Rinke Hoekstra, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kathrin Dentler, Auke Rijpma, Richard Zijdeman, Ivo Zandhuis. “An Ecosystem for Linked Humanities Data”. In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSE 2016). ESWC 2016, May 29th, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2016). (PDF) Best WHiSE2016 paper award
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “The Song Remains the Same: Lossless Conversion and Streaming of MIDI to RDF and Back”. In: 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016), posters and demos track. May 29th — June 2nd, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2016). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Refining Statistical Data on the Web”. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2016) (Amazon) (VU-DARE) PhD thesis
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “We’re Not Gonna Take It: Putting the Web at Musicians’ Service”. Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield. September 8-10 (2016) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Peter Wittek, Sándor Daranyi. “Visualizing the Drift of Linked Open Data Using Self-Organizing Maps”. In: Detection, Representation and Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data (Drift-A-LOD), Workshop at EKAW, Bologna, Italy, 19-23 November (2016). (PDF)
  • Victor de Boer, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Niels Ockeloen. “Linked Data for Digital History. Lessons Learned from Three Case Studies”. Mirella Romer Recio, M. Jesús Colmenero (eds.). Historiografía digital: proyectos para almacenar y construir la Historia. Anejos de la Revista de Historiografía 4. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2016). (PDF)

2015

  • Berit Janssen, Albert Meroño Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour and Christophe Guéret. “Tracking down the habitat of folk songs”. eHumanities Magazine, number 4, 2015 (HTML)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “We’ve Always Been Digital”. eHumanities Magazine, number 4, 2015 (HTML)
  • Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kees Mandemakers. “The Aggregate Dutch Historical Censuses: Harmonization and RDF”. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 48(4), pp. 230-245, 2015. (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Andrea Scharnhorst, Christophe Guéret, Sally Wyatt. “CEDAR: Linked Open Census Data”. DHCommons Journal, 1st issue. (PDF) (HTML)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach. “Linked Edit Rules: A Web Friendly Way of Checking Quality of RDF Data Cubes”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2015), ISWC 2015, Bethlehem, PA, USA (2015). (PDF)
  • Bas Stringer, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Antonis Loizou, Sanne Abeln, Jaap Heringa. “To SCRY Linked Data: Extending SPARQL the Easy Way”. Diversity++ workshop, ISWC 2015, Bethlehem, PA, USA (2015). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Marieke van Erp, Kees Mandemakers, Leen Breure, Andrea Scharnhorst, Stefan Schlobach, Frank van Harmelen. “Semantic Technologies for Historical Research: A Survey”. Semantic Web — Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 6(6), pp. 539–564. IOS Press (2015). (HTML) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach. “CEDAR: The Dutch Historical Censuses as Linked Open Data”. Semantic Web — Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 8(2), pp. 297–310. IOS Press (2015). (HTML) (PDF)
  • Bas Stringer, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Antonis Loizou, Sanne Abeln, Jaap Heringa. “SCRY: Enabling quantitative reasoning in SPARQL queries”. Semantic Web applications and tools for life sciences (SWAT4LS 2015), December 7-10 Cambridge, England (2015). (PDF)

2014

  • Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Harmonizing the Dutch Historical Censuses in the Semantic Web”. Digital Humanities Benelux Conference, The Hague, 12-13 June 2014. (PDF)
  • Wouter Beek, Rinke Hoekstra, Fernie Maas, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Inger Leemans. “Linking the STCN and Performing Big Data Queries in the Humanities”. Digital Humanities Benelux Conference, The Hague, 12-13 June (2014). (PDF)
  • Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kees Mandemakers. “CEDAR: Harmonization of Historical Dutch Census Data”. 10th European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 23-26 April (2014). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour. “Integrating Historical Census Data in the Semantic Web”. Historical Network Research Conference, Ghent University, Belgium, 15-19 September (2014). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour. “From Napoleon Conquests to the Big Brother Sabotage: Harmonization of the Dutch Historical Censuses in the Semantic Web”. Digital Humanities Congress, The University of Sheffield, 4-6 September (2014). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Christophe Guéret. “From Flat Lists to Taxonomies: Bottom-up Concept Scheme Generation in Linked Statistical Data”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014), ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy (2014). (PDF)
  • Sarven Capadisli, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Sören Auer, Reinhard Riedl. “Semantic Similarity and Correlation of Linked Statistical Data Analysis”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014), ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy (2014). (PDF)
  • Andrea Scharnhorst, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Christophe Guéret. “Baseline Statistics of Linked Statistical Data”. In: Proceedings of the Second Annual Knowescape Conference (KNOWeSCAPE 2014). Tessaloniki, Greece (2014). (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra. “What is Linked Historical Data?”. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014, LNAI 8876, pp. 282-287, Springer. Linköping, Sweden (2014) (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “LSD Dimensions: Use and Reuse of Linked Statistical Data”. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014. LNCS 8982, Springer. Linköping, Sweden (2014) (PDF)

2013

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Christophe Guéret, Ashkan Ashkpour, Andrea Scharnhorst. “Publishing, Harmonizing and Consuming Census Data: the CEDAR Project”. Open Data on the Web Workshop, World Wide Web Consortium, Open Data Institute, Open Knowledge Foundation, 23-24 April 2013, Google Campus, Shoreditch, London http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/papers (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Stefan Schlobach, Frank van Harmelen. “Semantic Web for the Humanities”, In: Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013, Montpellier, France, May 28-30, 2013. Philipp Cimiano et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7882 Springer 2013, pp. 645-649. (PDF) (Slides) Best ESWC2013 PhD Symposium paper award
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra, Andrea Scharnhorst, Christophe Guéret, Ashkan Ashkpour. “Longitudinal Queries over Linked Census Data” (poster). 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013, Montpellier, France, May 28-30, 2013. (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Christophe Guéret and Andrea Scharnhorst. “The CEDAR Project: Publishing and Consuming Harmonized Census Data” (poster). The Soeterbeeck eHumanities Workshop, 13-14 June, 2013, Soeterbeeck, the Netherlands. (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Christophe Guéret, Rinke Hoekstra, Stefan Schlobach. “Detecting and Reporting Extensional Concept Drift in Statistical Linked Data”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013), ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia. (PDF)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Stefan Schlobach. “Non-Temporal Orderings as Proxies for Extensional Concept Drift”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013), challenge paper. ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia. (PDF)
  • Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “Classifying the Dutch Historical Censuses”. International UDC Seminar 2013, The Hague, 24-25 October (2013) (PDF)

2012

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Laurens Rietveld, Rinke Hoekstra, and Stefan Schlobach. “Linked Humanities Data: The Next Frontier? A Case-study in Historical Census Data”, proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 (LISC2012), ISWC 2012, Boston, USA. (PDF)

2011

  • Jorge González-Conejero, Albert Meroño-Peñuela and David Fernández Gámez. “Ontologies for Governance, Risk Management and Policy Compliance”, proceedings of the Workshop on Modelling Policy-Making 2011 (MPM2011). JURIX 2011, Viena, Austria. (PDF)
  • Jorge González-Conejero, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Josep Suquet and Oriol Martínez Pujol. “Online Mediation Consumer Tools: MediWeb and MediApp”. Published in: eChallenges e-2011 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation Ltd 2011, ISBN 978-1-905824-27-4, ISBN: 978-1-905824-27-4 (PDF)

2010

  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Núria Casellas, Sergi Torralba, Mario Reyes, and Pompeu Casanovas. “Legal Compliance Support with an Ontology-based Information System” (poster), proceedings of Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW 2010), 11th October-15th October 2010 – Lisbon, Portugal. (PDF)
  • Casellas, N., Nieto, J-E., Meroño, A., Roig, A., Torralba, S., Reyes de los Mozos, M., Casanovas, P. “Ontological Semantics for Data Privacy Compliance: the NEURONA Ontology”, AAAI Spring Symposium Series Technical Reports (Intelligent Information Privacy Management), Stanford 23rd-25th of March 2010. (PDF)

2009

  • Núria Casellas, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Sergi Torralba, Joan-Josep Vallbé, Marta Poblet, Emma Teodoro, Pompeu Casanovas. “The Use of Semantic Technologies in Legal Applications: The IURISERVICE, NEURONA and ONTOMEDIA Projects”. In: AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems: Multilingual ontologies, Multiagent systems, Distributed networks (AICOL 2009). XXIV IVR World Congress, Beijing, 19 September (2009). (PDF)
  • Sergi Torralba, Núria Casellas, Juan-Emilio Nieto, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Antoni Roig, Mario Reyes, Pompeu Casanovas. “The Neurona Ontology: A Data Protection Compliance Ontology”. In: AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems II (Follow-up Workshop) (AICOL-II 2009). JURIX 2009, Rotterdam, 16 December (2009). (PDF)
  • Sergi Torralba, Albert Meroño, Antoni Roig. “Service Providers Accountability”. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Law and Web 2.0, IDT Series, Barcelona.