Georgi Kobilarov

I'm a Semantic Web researcher working at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously I worked as a research associate in the Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department at Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, United Kingdom. My current research aims to develop exploratory user interfaces and interaction models for the Semantic Web. I'm a member of the Web-based Systems Group at FU-Berlin.

As development lead and founding member of the DBpedia project, I am highly interested in ways to bootstrap Semantic Web adoption. Therefore, I also participate in the Linking Open Data project, a community which publishes and interlinks open datasets on the web as Linked Data. My research project Humboldt aims to find new ways of exploratory interaction with massive Semantic Web datasets like DBpedia.

Blog

• http://blog.georgikobilarov.com

Research Interests

• Semantic Web Technologies
• Web-based Information Integration
• User Interface Design

Projects

• DBpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database
• Silk - A Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data
• Humboldt - Exploring Linked Data
• Linking Open Data (W3C SWEO)
• Aletheia (BMBF / IKT2020-Leitinnovation)

Work Experience

• Freelance Semantic Web Consultant (since 08/2008)
  Client: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
• Freie Universität Berlin (since 07/2008)
  Web-based Systems Group
  Research Associate
• Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol (09/2007 - 03/2008)
  Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department
  Research Associate
• Freie Universität Berlin (10/2006 - 09/2007)
  Web-based Systems Group
  Research & Teaching Assistant
• KPMG, Berlin (09/2005 - 02/2006)
  IT-Projects Department
  Working Student
• DyBuiS GmbH Berlin (2000 - 2002)
  Database Developer

Education

• Freie Universität Berlin
  Studies of Business Economics
  Major subjects: Computer Science, Finance, Management
  Degree: Diplom-Kaufmann (MSc equivalent, graduation: 06/2008)

Publications

• Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Robert Lee: Media Meets Semantic Web - How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Conections. European Semantic Web Conference, Semantic Web in Use Track, Crete, June 2009 (to appear).
• Julius Volz, Christian Bizer, Martin Gaedke, Georgi Kobilarov: Silk - A Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data. 2nd Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2009) at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain, April 2009 (to appear).
• Georgi Kobilarov, Christian Bizer, Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann: DBpedia – A Linked Data Hub and Data Source for Web Applications and Enterprises. Talk at WWW2009 Developers Track, Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
• Georgi Kobilarov, Ian Dickinson: Humboldt: Exploring Linked Data. Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2008) at WWW2008, Beijing, China, April 2008.
• Sören Auer, Christian Bizer, Georgi Kobilarov, Jens Lehmann, Richard Cyganiak, Zachary Ives: DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data. 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November 2007.
• Christian Bizer, Sören Auer, Georgi Kobilarov, Jens Lehmann, Richard Cyganiak: DBpedia.org - Querying Wikipedia like a Database. Developers track at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 2007.

Program Committees

• 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web, Workshop at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Crete, June 2009 (Program Committee)
• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009), Workshop at 18th International World Wide Web Confernce (WWW2009), April 2009, Madrid, Spain (Program Committee)
• Visual interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009), Workshop at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009), February 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA (Program Committee)
• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), Workshop at 17th International World Wide Web Confernce (WWW2008), April 2008, Beijing, China (Program Committee)

Teachings

• Seminar - Business informatics, FU Berlin, winter semester 2006
• Seminar - Business informatics, FU Berlin, summer semester 2007

Contact

• email: firstname dot lastname at fu-berlin dot de