Dr. Benjamin Zapilko

Interim Professor

Benjamin Zapilko is a postdoctoral researcher and lead of the team Data Linking at the GESIS department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS). He joined GESIS in 2007 after his graduation in computer science at University of Koblenz. While working in several projects, he started his research in the field of Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. In 2015, he finished his doctoral research on publication and matching of Linked Open Data in the application field of the social sciences at Mannheim University. Benjamin Zapilko is member of the RDF Vocabularies Working Group of the DDI Alliance and was co-organizer of the Library Track at the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) from 2012 to 2014.