Dr. Céline Van Damme

About me

I graduated at the University of Brussels (VUB) with a Master's degree from the Solvay Business School (1999-2004). After graduating I briefly worked as an analyst in the IT-department of a local construction company, where I was responsible for information organisation issues of the company's CRM. This triggered my interest in information organisation and retrieval, after which I applied to enter the VUB's PhD program and started working as a researcher at the MOSI-research group. At the same time I obtained a Master after Master in Business Information Management at the VUB. In June 2010, I finished my PhD on corporate tags. More specifically, I investigated how corporate tags can be analysed to unlock tacit and explicit knowledge in the company.

contact me at celine (at) celinevandamme (dot) com

Publications
Presentations
PC Memberships and Reviews
Co-supervised Master Theses
Teaching
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Publications

2010

Van Damme, C. (2010). Unlocking knowledge through corporate tags. Phd thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUBPress), Belgium (ISBN 9789054877578) (Download)

2008

Van Damme, C., Coenen, T., Vandijck, E. (2008). Deriving a Lightweight Corporate Ontology form a Folksonomy: a Methodology and its Possible Applications. Scientific international journal for parallel and distributed computing. Vol. 9, Nr. 4.

Van Damme, C. (2008). Approaches to Analyse Corporate Tags for Business Intelligence Purposes. Accepted at the First International Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI2008) in conjunction with ISWC2008, Karlsrühe, Germany, 27 October 2008. (ACM Digital Library)

Van Damme, C., Christiaens, S., Trog, D. (2008). Methodological Approach to Determine Appropriately Annotated Resources in Narrow Folksonomies. In Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero et al. (Eds.): OTM workshops, LNCS 5333-0230, pp.230-237.

Van Damme,C., Hepp,M., Coenen, T. (2008). Quality Metrics for Tags of Broad Folksonomies. In Auer, S., Schaffert,S. and Pelligrini,T. (eds.): Proceedings of International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-semantics'08),Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), 2008, pp.118-125.

Van Damme, C.; Coenen, T.; Vandijck, E. (2008). Turning a corporate folksonomy into a lightweight corporate ontology. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), May 5-6, Innsbruck, Austria, in: Abramowicz, Fensel (Ed.): BIS 2008, LNBIP 7, Springer 2008, pp.36-47.

Van Damme, C. (2008). Van Folksonomies naar Ontologies. In Cahiers de la documentation (Bladen voor Documentatie). Nr.1. pp. 12-17,ISSN 0007-9804 ( Dutch )

2007

Van Damme, C. (2007). Informatie zoeken op het web: directories, zoekmachines, folksonomies...en ontologies. In Cahiers de la documentation (Bladen voor Documentatie). Nr.4. pp.1-11. ISSN 0007-9804 ( Dutch )

Van Damme, C., Hepp, M., Siorpaes, K. (2007). FolksOntology: An Integrated Approach for Turning Folksonomies into Ontologies. Proceedings of the ESWC 2007 Workshop Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0, Innsbruck, Austria, pp.71-84.

Van Damme, C. , Christiaens, S., Vandijck, E. (2007). Building an employee-driven CRM ontology . Proceedings of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS): E-society2007, Lisbon, Portugal, pp.330-334.

Rabaey, M., Van Damme, C., Vandenborre, K., Vandijck, E., Timmerman, M. (2007). Ontology Negotiation in an Intelligent Agents Dynamic System for Military Resources and Capabilities Planning. Proceedings of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS): ISA2007,Lisbon, Portugal,pp.178-182.

2006

Coenen, T., Kenis, D., Van Damme, C., Matthys, E. (2006). Knowledge Sharing over Social Networking Systems: Architecture, Usage Patterns and Their Application. In R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (Eds.): OTM Workshops 2006, LNCS 4277, pp. 189-198.

Van Damme, C. (2006) Folksonomies and Enterprise folksonomies, Master Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

2004

Van Damme, C. (2006). “De impact van een CRM-systeem op een CRM-implementatie en een methodologie tot systeemselectie” (English: ”The impact of a CRM system on a CRM implementation and a methodology for selecting the appropariate system”, Master Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Presentations

June 16, 2010: Presentation Public PhD defense: Unlocking knowledge through corporate tags

27th October 2008: Approaches to Analyse Corporate Tags for Business Intelligence Purposes, paper presentation at the OBI workshop (part of ISWC2008 conference), Karlsrühe, Germany.

4th September 2008: Quality Metrics for Tags of Broad Folksonomies, paper presenation at the “International Conference on Semantic Systems” (I-Semantics, part van Triple-I conference), Graz, Austria.

5th May 2008: Turning a corporate folksonomy into a lightweight corporate ontology, paper presentation at “International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS2008) “, Innsbruck, Austria

12th February 2008: Presentation research, closed workshop organised by Prof. Dr. M. Hepp, Obergurgl, Austria.

8th October 2007: Folksonomies and its siblings, invited speaker at the EINIRAS conference, Strasbourg, France.

19th September 2007: Kosten-baten analyse bij de ontwikkeling van een bedrijfsontologie uit een enterprise folksonomy (English: “Cost-benefit analysis of deriving a corporate ontology form an enterprise folksonomy”), presentation research, Research workshop at VUB, Brussels, Belgium.

5th July 2007: Building an employee-driven CRM ontology, paper presentation at IADIS conference e-society2007, Lisbon, Portugal.

3rd July 2007: Ontology Negotiation in an Intelligent Agents Dynamic System for Military Resources and Capabilities Planning, paper presenation at IADIS conference ISA2007, Lisbon, Portugal.

7th June 2007: FolksOntology: an Integrated Approach for Turning Folksonomies into Ontologies, paper presentation at the Workshop "Bridging the gap between semantic web and web2.0" (part of ESWC2007 conference), Innsbruck, Austria.

26th April 2007: Een kritische kijk op de nieuwe classificatietechnieken voor de documentalist (English: “A critical view on new techniques for classification”), invited speaker at Inforum2007 organised by BVD (= Belgian organization for classification data and information), Brussels, Belgium.

27th Oktober 2006: Folksonomies and Enterprise Folksonomies, MOSI-presentation, Brussels, Belgium.

21st September 2006: Folksonomies in Government Institutions, GovCamp Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

2nd June 2006: Folksonomies, Open-spaces meeting on knowledge sharing, Ukkel, Belgium.

PC Memberships and Reviews

  • Reviewer for the Special Issue on Linked Open Data (IJSWIS journal)
  • Member of the PC of the 2nd workshop on Emerging eLearning Web Technologies (EeLT 2009) organized in conjunction with 12 th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)
  • Reviewer for Webology Journal (special issue on Folksonomies)
  • Member of the PC of the 3rd workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) organized in conjunction with 12 th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)
  • Member of the PC of the 1st workshop on Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for Enhanced Knowledge Navigation (ITFEKN 2008) organized in conjunction with the PAKM2008 conference, Yokohama,Japan, 22 November 2008
  • Member of the PC of the 2nd workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) organized in conjunction with 11 th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, 5-7 May 2008.

Co-supervised Master Theses

  • Vincent Sterken, Analysis of user generated metadata in the LibraryThing folksonomy, Master after Master in Business Information and Service Management (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Vandijck, August 2008. (download)
  • Sarah Berghmans, Het lokaliseren van experts binnen de onderneming aan het hand van een analyse van tags , Master Bedrijfskunde (Management) (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Vandijck, June 2009.
  • Christophe Hautier, Kwantitatieve analyse van de gebruikte tags per werkgroep in een grote Europese onderneming, vanuit een economisch perspectief, Master in de toegepaste economische wetenschappen: Handelsingenieur (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Vandijck, June 2009.

Teaching

Introduction to programming, Advanced programming (Java), software for management, Business Models and Strategies in a Networked Services

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