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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=en prefix="schema: http://schema.org/ og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb# article: http://ogp.me/ns/article# bibo: http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ sioc: http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns# bio: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/ time: http://www.w3.org/2006/time#" resource="/" typeof="schema:WebPage"> <head> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>Ruben Verborgh – Professor of Decentralized Web Technology</title> <script>function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)}dataLayer=[],gtag("js",new Date),gtag("config","G-40S5SWV67C");</script> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-40S5SWV67C"></script> <script src="/scripts/instant.page.js" type=module></script> <link rel=stylesheet href="/styles/main.css"> <link rel=alternate type="application/atom+xml" href="/blog/latest.xml" title="Ruben Verborgh’s blog"> <meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=.5"> <meta property="dc:title" content="Ruben Verborgh – Professor of Decentralized Web Technology"/> <meta property="og:type" content=website> <meta property="og:title" content="Ruben Verborgh’s homepage"> <meta property="og:url" content="https://ruben.verborgh.org/"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://ruben.verborgh.org/images/ruben.jpg"> <meta property="og:description" content="Ruben Verborgh is a professor of Decentralized Web technology. 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Yet machines neither love nor trust us back. <a class=id href="#top-p-3"></a>By designing technology to facilitate our evolving relationships, we scale personalized exchanges into trusted ecosystems. <cite><a href="/contact/">Ruben Verborgh</a></cite> </blockquote> <a class=id href="#top-p-4"></a> My name is Ruben. I’m a storyteller. I tell stories through technology, writing, and music. I tell stories about the world and future so, one day, they’ll no longer just be stories. With the people around me, I research what we need to build to turn stories into reality. <a class=id href="#top-p-5"></a> I’m a Professor of Decentralized Web Technology at <a href="http://idlab.ugent.be/" target=_blank><abbr class=caps>IDL</abbr>ab</a> of <a href="http://www.ugent.be/en" target=_blank class=nobr>Ghent University</a> – <a href="https://www.imec-int.com/" target=_blank>imec</a> and a Visiting Fellow at the <a href="https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/" target=_blank class=nobr>Oxford Martin School</a> within the <a href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/" target=_blank class=nobr>University of Oxford</a>. I’m the Head of Data Interoperability at <a href="https://www.inrupt.com/" target=_blank>Inrupt</a> and an occasional advisor to companies. From this hybrid academic and industrial perspective, my professional mission is to inspire, evolve, and reshape our data-driven society. <a class=id href="#top-p-6"></a> I investigate how an interdisciplinary approach to <a href="/blog/2023/11/10/no-more-raw-data/">digital trust</a> can lead us into a post-Big Data era, wherein a harmonious alignment of societal and economic needs incentivizes responsible data processing. Technology will support people in deciding when, why, and with whom we exchange data, and companies will experience frictionless usage of the data required to offer their services. <a href="https://knows.idlab.ugent.be/" target=_blank>My research group</a> designs and implements novel proposals to support and effect this <a href="/blog/2020/12/07/a-data-ecosystem-fosters-sustainable-innovation/">socio-economic change</a>. <h2 id=blog><a class=id href="#blog"></a><a data-icon="" href="/blog/">Blog</a></h2> <a class=id href="#blog-p-1"></a> I’ve <a href="/blog/">blogged</a> about <a href="/blog/2014/03/11/towards-web-scale-web-querying/">Linked Data</a>, <a href="/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/">Web <abbr class=caps>API</abbr>s</a>, and <a href="/blog/2018/12/28/designing-a-linked-data-developer-experience/">JavaScript</a>, but the bulk of my writings nowadays cover the present and future of data and trust on the Web: <div class=blogboards> <div class=blogboard typeof="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" resource="/blog/2024/10/15/trust-takes-time/"> <a href="/blog/2024/10/15/trust-takes-time/"><img src="/images/blog/trust_long.jpg" alt="" property="schema:image"/></a> <div class=banner> <a href="/blog/2024/10/15/trust-takes-time/" property="schema:url">Trust takes time</a> <a href="/blog/2024/10/15/trust-takes-time/" property="schema:url">Only people can trust, but only machines scale well.</a> </div> </div> <div class=blogboard typeof="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" resource="/blog/2023/11/10/no-more-raw-data/"> <a href="/blog/2023/11/10/no-more-raw-data/"><img src="/images/blog/cookies_long.jpg" alt="" property="schema:image"/></a> <div class=banner> <a href="/blog/2023/11/10/no-more-raw-data/" property="schema:url">No more raw data</a> <a href="/blog/2023/11/10/no-more-raw-data/" property="schema:url">Trust envelopes enable responsible data reuse.</a> </div> </div> <div class=blogboard typeof="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" resource="/blog/2024/05/30/the-webs-data-triad/"> <a href="/blog/2024/05/30/the-webs-data-triad/"><img src="/images/blog/jesus-rest_long.jpg" alt="" property="schema:image"/></a> <div class=banner> <a href="/blog/2024/05/30/the-webs-data-triad/" property="schema:url">The Web’s data triad</a> <a href="/blog/2024/05/30/the-webs-data-triad/" property="schema:url">Querying decentralized data is a solved problem, but why do we prefer some solutions over others?</a> </div> </div> <div class=blogboard typeof="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" resource="/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/"> <a href="/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/"><img src="/images/blog/reflections_long.jpg" alt="" property="schema:image"/></a> <div class=banner> <a href="/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/" property="schema:url">Reflections of knowledge</a> <a href="/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/" property="schema:url">Designing Web <abbr class=caps>API</abbr>s for sustainable interactions within decentralized knowledge graph ecosystems.</a> </div> </div> <div class=blogboard typeof="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" resource="/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/"> <a href="/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/"><img src="/images/blog/market_long.jpg" alt="" property="schema:image"/></a> <div class=banner> <a href="/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/" property="schema:url">Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web</a> <a href="/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/" property="schema:url">As separate markets for data and apps emerge, Web development needs to adopt a new shape.</a> </div> </div> </div> <h2 id=publications><a class=id href="#publications"></a><a href="/publications/" data-icon="">Publications</a></h2> <a class=id href="#publications-p-1"></a> Discover my ongoing research through my recent <a href="/publications/">publications</a>: <ul class=publications> <li id=smessaert_sds_2024 typeof="schema:ScholarlyArticle" resource="https://smessie.github.io/Article-ESWC2024-DFDP/"> <a href="/publications/smessaert_sds_2024/"><abbr class=caps>DFDP</abbr>: A Declarative Form Description Pipeline for Decentralizing Web Forms</a> workshop Ieben Smessaert, Patrick Hochstenbach, Ben De Meester, Ruben Taelman, and Ruben Verborgh <time class=date datetime=2024 property="schema:datePublished">2024</time> Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces <a href="/publications/smessaert_sds_2024/" title="DFDP: A Declarative Form Description Pipeline for Decentralizing Web Forms">details</a> <a href="https://smessie.github.io/Article-ESWC2024-DFDP/" target=_blank title="DFDP: A Declarative Form Description Pipeline for Decentralizing Web Forms">full text</a> <a href="/publications/smessaert_sds_2024/smessaert_sds_2024.bib" title="BibTeX entry of “DFDP: A Declarative Form Description Pipeline for Decentralizing Web Forms”">BibTeX</a> </li> <li id=taelman_edbt_2024 typeof="schema:ScholarlyArticle" resource="https://comunica.github.io/Article-EDBT2024-SolidQueryDemo/"> <a href="/publications/taelman_edbt_2024/">Demonstration of Link Traversal <abbr class=caps>SPARQL</abbr> Query Processing over the Decentralized Solid Environment</a> demo Ruben Taelman and Ruben Verborgh <time class=date datetime=2024 property="schema:datePublished">2024</time> Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (<abbr class=caps>EDBT</abbr>) <a href="/publications/taelman_edbt_2024/" title="Demonstration of Link Traversal SPARQL Query Processing over the Decentralized Solid Environment">details</a> <a href="https://comunica.github.io/Article-EDBT2024-SolidQueryDemo/" target=_blank title="Demonstration of Link Traversal SPARQL Query Processing over the Decentralized Solid Environment">full text</a> <a href="/publications/taelman_edbt_2024/taelman_edbt_2024.bib" title="BibTeX entry of “Demonstration of Link Traversal SPARQL Query Processing over the Decentralized Solid Environment”">BibTeX</a> </li> <li id=crum_swat4hcls_2024 typeof="schema:ScholarlyArticle" resource="https://ruben.verborgh.org/publications/crum_swat4hcls_2024/#publication"> <a href="/publications/crum_swat4hcls_2024/">Personalized Medicine Through Personal Data Pods</a> poster Elias Crum, Ruben Taelman, Bart Buelens, Gökhan Ertaylan, and Ruben Verborgh <time class=date datetime=2024 property="schema:datePublished">2024</time> Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences <a href="/publications/crum_swat4hcls_2024/" title="Personalized Medicine Through Personal Data Pods">details</a> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K7_bawDLJQirY2niDKFXVSD4-IDt9R3I/view" target=_blank title="Personalized Medicine Through Personal Data Pods">full text</a> <a href="/publications/crum_swat4hcls_2024/crum_swat4hcls_2024.bib" title="BibTeX entry of “Personalized Medicine Through Personal Data Pods”">BibTeX</a> </li> <li id=werbrouck_swj_2024 typeof="schema:ScholarlyArticle" resource="https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-233396"> <a href="/publications/werbrouck_swj_2024/">ConSolid: A Federated Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Multi-Stakeholder Projects</a> journal Jeroen Werbrouck, Pieter Pauwels, Jakob Beetz, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens <time class=date datetime=2024 property="schema:datePublished">2024</time> Semantic Web Journal <a href="/publications/werbrouck_swj_2024/" title="ConSolid: A Federated Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Multi-Stakeholder Projects">details</a> <a href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw233396" target=_blank title="ConSolid: A Federated Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Multi-Stakeholder Projects">full text</a> <a href="/publications/werbrouck_swj_2024/werbrouck_swj_2024.bib" title="BibTeX entry of “ConSolid: A Federated Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Multi-Stakeholder Projects”">BibTeX</a> </li> <li id=hochstenbach_code4lib_2023 typeof="schema:ScholarlyArticle" resource="https://ruben.verborgh.org/publications/hochstenbach_code4lib_2023/#publication"> <a href="/publications/hochstenbach_code4lib_2023/">Using Event Notifications, Solid and Orchestration for Decentralizing and Decoupling Scholarly Communication</a> journal Patrick Hochstenbach, Ruben Verborgh, and Herbert Van de Sompel <time class=date datetime=2023 property="schema:datePublished">2023</time> Code4Lib Journal <a href="/publications/hochstenbach_code4lib_2023/" title="Using Event Notifications, Solid and Orchestration for Decentralizing and Decoupling Scholarly Communication">details</a> <a href="https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17823" target=_blank title="Using Event Notifications, Solid and Orchestration for Decentralizing and Decoupling Scholarly Communication">full text</a> <a href="/publications/hochstenbach_code4lib_2023/hochstenbach_code4lib_2023.bib" title="BibTeX entry of “Using Event Notifications, Solid and Orchestration for Decentralizing and Decoupling Scholarly Communication”">BibTeX</a> </li> </ul> <a class=id href="#publications-p-2"></a><a href="/publications/">See all my publications…</a> </main> <aside> <img src="/images/ruben-full.jpg" alt="[picture of Ruben Verborgh]"/> <h2 data-icon="">Dive into my content</h2> <dl> <dt><a href="/blog/">Blog</a></dt> <dd> Check out my latest post <cite><a href="/blog/2024/10/15/trust-takes-time/">Trust takes time</a></cite>. </dd> <dt><a href="/publications/">Publications</a></dt> <dd> Read <a href="/publications/#2024">my recent work</a> such as <cite><a href="/publications/smessaert_sds_2024/"><abbr class=caps>DFDP</abbr>: A Declarative Form Description Pipeline for Decentralizing Web Forms</a></cite>. </dd> </dl> <h2 data-icon="">Query my Linked Open Data</h2> <a href="https://data.verborgh.org/ruben" target=_blank typeof="schema:EntryPoint">Browse<meta property="schema:urlTemplate" 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