Pieter Colpaert

Thoughts

• 2019-12-31research
  What we did in 2019 and will be doing in 2020
• 2019-05-27opinion
  Real-time election results as Open Data
• 2019-03-21opinion
  The next steps for Open Data Portals? Data recipes!
• 2018-12-30research
  Our research in 2019 on automating data reuse
• 2017-10-10vacancies
  We need better Open Data Interfaces

Talks

• 2021-03-16at ENDORSE2021 — keynote

  Linked Data Event Streams as the base API for European datasets

  Keynote at the ENDORSE2021 conference introducing Linked Data Event Streams
• 2019-10-09at GhentJS — dev-talk

  GraphQL vs. REST for Open Data

  Talking about GraphQL vs. REST:
• 2018-07-11at TEDxUCLouvain 2018 — TEDx

  Open data to create power for the many, not the few

  The story so far with Open Data: we’re not there yet. Let’s make sure data can be adopted by the many, by making sure a machine can access it for you.
• 2017-09-22at Open Sea Lab — Keynote

  Keynote on Open Data: a Belgian perspective

  Answers to questions what Open Data, Linked Data and Querying Web APIs means, with examples from Belgium.
• 2017-02-04at Data Beers Brussels — Lightning talk

  Predicting the crowdedness of your next train

  In 2017 we ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for getting to know how busy your next train will be. We ended up coding this into iRail.be!

Non profit work

I am

• a board member of the Belgian chapter of Open Knowledge
• founder of open Summer of code,
• one of the maintainers of the iRail API for public transport
• volunteer at the Open Belgium conference.