Ashkan Ashkpour
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Ashkan Ashkpour is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History. The topic of his PhD research was the ‘theory and practice of data harmonization’ with specific focus on the evolution and harmonization of historical Dutch census data. Census data plays an invaluable role in the historical study of society and are among the most frequently consulted sources of statistics. The project resulted in generic methods and tools to weave historical and socio-economic datasets into an interlinked semantic data-web by using RDF technology.
His research interests include (among others) the harmonization of historical data, data science, dynamics of societal changes, census data, historical demography, data curation, Linked Data (RDF), Semantic Web technologies, scholarly collaboration, virtual research environments / collaboratories, Big Data, organizational and individual impacts of advanced information systems, ERP systems and strategic alignment of IT.
Research Output:
2019
KDP Grant DANS - Subsidie Kleine dataprojecten
Centralised Data Classification Platform: Exploration and Contribution of Knowledge Systems
Ashkan Ashkpour. “Theory and Practice of Historical Census Data Harmonization. The Dutch Historical Census Use Case: A flexible, structured and accountable approach using Linked Data. Erasmus University (2019). PhD Thesis.
2018
Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “LOCS AND KEYS: Linked Open Classification System and Opening up Knowledge”. In: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2018), 4-7 April, Belfast, North Ireland, UK (2018)
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 (in print) (2018)
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 (in print) (2018)
2017
KDP Grant DANS - Subsidie Kleine dataprojecten
Linking past and present: Augmenting historical municpality characterstics trhough harmonization and linkage with contemporary data.
Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela. “LICR: a cocktail of religions" at the session: Challenges in Historical Data Linkage and Classification”. In: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Montreal, Canada (2017)
2016
Ashkpour, A., Mandemakers, K., & Boonstra, O. W. A. (2016). Source Oriented Harmonization of Aggregate Historical Census Data: a flexible and accountable approach in RDF. Historical Social Research. 41(4) pp. 296-307
Ashkpour, A. (Developer), & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (Developer). (2016). Geharmoniseerde Historische Census Data - 1859-1920. DOI: 10.17026/dans-z9j-x2vy [Dataset]
Meroño-Peñuela, A. (Developer), Ashkpour, A. (Developer), & Guéret, C. D. M. (Developer). (2016). CEDAR RDF DATABASE, THE DUTCH HISTORICAL CENSUSES (1795-1971) AS LINKED OPEN DATA. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).DOI: 10.17026/dans-xpk-wj5w [Dataset]
Ashkpour, A., Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Mandemakers, K. (2016). Harmonizing Aggregate Historical Dutch Census Data: a Flexible Approach. Paper presented at European Social Science History conference, Valencia.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Ashkpour, A. (2016). Historical Quantitative Reasoning on the Web. Paper presented at European Social Science History conference, Valencia.
2015
Ashkpour, A., Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Mandemakers, K. (2015). The Aggregate Dutch Historical Censuses. Harmonization and RDF. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 48(4), 530-545. DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2015.1026009
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Guéret, C. D. M., Scharnhorst, A. M., & Wyatt, S. (2015). CEDAR: Linked Open Census Data: Project Statement. DH Commons Journal, 1(1).
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Guéret, C. D. M., & Schlobach, S. (2015). CEDAR: The Dutch Historical Censuses as Linked Open Data. Semantic Web Journal.
2014
Ashkpour, A, Merono-Penuela, A & Mandemakers, CA 2014, 'CEDAR: Harmonization of Historical Dutch Census Data' ESSHC Vienna 2014, 01/01/2014, .
Ashkpour, A & Meroño-Peñuela, A, Census Data in RDF, 2014, Data set.
Ashkpour, A & Meroño-Peñuela, A 2014, 'The CEDAR Project: Harmonizing the Dutch Historical censuses in the Semantic Web' Digital Humanities Benelux 2014, The Hague, 12/06/2014, .
Ashkpour, A & Meroño-Peñuela, A 2014, 'Vizualizations of the CEDAR Project' Digital Humanities Benelux conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 12/06/2014 - 13/06/2014, .
Meroño-Peñuela, A, Ashkpour, A & Guéret, C 2014, 'From Flat Lists to Taxonomies : Bottom-up Concept Scheme Generation in Linked Statistical Data Bottom-up Construction of Concept Schemes' Paper presented at 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, 19/10/2014, .
Meroño-Peñuela, A & Ashkpour, A 2014, 'From Napoleon Conquests to the Big Brother Sabotage : Harmonization of the Dutch Historical Censuses in the Semantic Web' Digital Humanities Congress 2014, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 04/09/2014 - 06/09/2014, .
Meroño-Peñuela, A & Ashkpour, A 2014, 'Integrating Historical Census Data in the Semantic Web' Historical Network Research Conference, Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 15/09/2014 - 19/09/2014, .
Meroño-Peñuela, A, Ashkpour, A, van Erp, M, Mandemakers, K, Breure, L, Scharnhorst, A, Schlobach, S & van Harmelen, F 2014, 'Semantic Technologies for Historical Research: A Survey' Semantic Web Journal, pp. 1.
2013
Meroño-Peñuela, A, Ashkpour, A, Rietveld, L, Hoekstra, R & Schlobach, S 2013, 'Linked Humanities Data: The Next Frontier? A Case-study in Historical Census Data'. in T Kauppinen & LC Pouchard (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 (LISC2012) – Tackling Big Data. Boston, 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 (LISC2012), 1 January.
Merono-Penuela, A, Hoekstra, R, Scharnhorst, A, Gueret, C & Ashkpour, A 2013, 'Longitudinal Queries over Linked Census Data'. in SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2013 SATELLITE EVENTS. vol. 7955, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 306-307.
Merono-Penuela, A, Gueret, C, Ashkpour, A & Scharnhorst, A 2013, 'Publishing, Harmonizing and Consuming Census Data: the CEDAR Project'. in Workshop proceedings. Open Data on the Web Workshop, World Wide Web Consortium Open Data Institute, Open Knowledge Foundation, 13-14 April.
2012
Meroño-Peñuela, A, Ashkpour, A, Rietveld, L & Hoekstra, R 2012, 'Linked Humanities Data: The Next Frontier? A Case-study in Historical Census Data' CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol 951.
Activities:
Past, Present and Future of Digital Humanities & Social Sciences in the Netherlands
Ashkan Ashkpour (Speaker)
e-Humanities Group
Date: 20 May 2016
ESSHC, Valencia 2016
Ashkan Ashkpour (Presenter)
International Institute of Social History (IISH), e-Humanities Group
Date: 23 Apr 2016 → 26 Apr 2016
Final CEDAR mini-symposium
Ashkan Ashkpour (Contributor)
International Institute of Social History (IISH), e-Humanities Group
At this final event, we welcome national and international speakers to discuss the use of Linked Data approaches in humanities research practices.
Details
Date: 08 Jun 2016
Studiemiddag: " Digitalisering historische CBS-collectie "
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Invited Presentation on CEDAR project - Harmonization of Historical Census Data
External organisation: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)
Date: 11 Nov 2014
PRELIDA Consolidation and Dissemination workshop
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Presentation: Presented the Harmonization of Historical Census data in CEDAR
Event: PRELIDA Consolidation and Dissemination workshop 2014
ESDH Seminar
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Presented the CEDAR project at the seminars of the section Economic Social and Demographic History of the department of History at the Radbout University in Nijmegen
Event: ESDH Seminar 2014
Digital Humanities Congress 2014, The University of Sheffield
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Event: Digital Humanities Congress 2014, The University of Sheffield 04/09/2014 - 06/09/2014
Digital Humanities Benelux conference
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Event: Digital Humanities Benelux conference 12/06/2014 - 13/06/2014
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014)
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Event: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014)19/10/2014
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2014)
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Event: 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2014) 25/05/2014 - 29/05/2014
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014)
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Event: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014)19/10/2014
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
ESSHC Vienna 2014
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Presented the paper during the Conference
Event: ESSHC Vienna 201401/01/2014
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
UDC Seminar Classifcation & Visualization
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
The CEDAR Project: Classifying the Dutch Historical Censuses
Event: UDC Seminar Classifcation & Visualization24/10/2013
10th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013, Montpellier
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
“Longitudinal Queries over Linked Census Data”
Event: 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013, Montpellier28/05/2013
Link: http://www.albertmeronyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/paper_33.pdf
Open Data on the Web Workshop, World Wide Web Consortium
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Publishing, Harmonizing and Consuming Census Data: the CEDAR Project
Event: Open Data on the Web Workshop, World Wide Web Consortium23/04/2013
Soeterbeeck
Ashkan Ashkpour
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
The CEDAR Project: Publishing and Consuming Harmonized Census Data”
Date: 13 Jun 2013 → 14 Jun 2013