Publications
2025
Ashkpour, A. (2025). Meetup Gemeentelijk Gegevensmodel: Datagedreven werken in de praktijk — praktische handvatten. Kennisnetwerk Data en Samenleving, VNG. Utrecht, Museum Speelklok.
Ashkpour, A. (2025). Scaling the Municipal Data Model: From Internal Project to a Nationally Applied Model. Paper presented at DataNext Architecture Europe (online), 2 October 2025. https://www.datanextconf.com/datanext-architecture-europe
2024
Ashkpour, A. (2024). Gemeentelijk Gegevensmodel sterk in opmars. Computable, 22 October 2024. https://www.computable.nl/2024/10/22/gemeentelijk-gegevensmodel-sterk-in-opmars/
Ashkpour, A. (2024). GGM Roundtable: Informatiegestuurd werken in de praktijk — GGM en Microsoft Azure. Kennisnetwerk Data en Samenleving, VNG.
2023
Ashkpour, A. (2023). VNG Kennisnetwerk: Samen versnellen door een gemeenschappelijke taal voor gegevens. Kennisnetwerk Data en Samenleving, VNG.
2022
Ashkpour, A. (2022). Het Gemeentelijk Gegevensmodel bouwt aan een gezamenlijk datafundament. Vereniging Directeuren Publieksdiensten. https://www.publieksdiensten.nl/nieuws/het-gemeentelijk-gegevensmodel-bouwt-aan-een-gezamenlijk-datafundament
Ashkpour, A. (2022). Winnaar GemeenteDelers 2022 — Het Gemeentelijk Gegevensmodel: een gezamenlijk datafundament voor alle gemeenten. VNG Realisatie.
2020
Ashkpour, A. (2020). VNG Innovatiefonds — Grant: Doorontwikkeling van het Gemeentelijk Gegevensmodel in samenwerking met gemeenten. VNG Realisatie.
Stapel, R., & Ashkpour, A. (2020). OpenGazAm: Linked Open Data Gazetteer of the Early-Modern Americas [Dataset]. DANS.
2019
Ashkpour, A. (2019). Theory and practice of historical census data harmonization: The Dutch historical census use case — A flexible, structured and accountable approach using linked data technology [PhD thesis]. Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ashkpour, A. (2019). A centralized data classification platform: Exploration and contribution of knowledge systems. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, IL, USA.
Hofmeester, K., Ashkpour, A., Depuydt, K., & De Does, J. (2019). Diamonds in Borneo: Commodities as concepts in context. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2019). Brussels, Belgium. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322905.3322920
Scharnhorst, A., Van Erp, M., Siebes, R., Guéret, C., Crick, T., Tykhonov, V., Coen, G., Smiraglia, R., Doorn, P., Van den Berg, H., De Vries, J., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., & De Valk, R. (2019). Curating and archiving linked data datasets from the humanities: From data of the present to data of the future. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2019), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9–12 July 2019.
Ashkpour, A. (2019). KDP Grant DANS — Subsidie Kleine Dataprojecten: Data classification platform. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).
2018
Hoekstra, R., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Rijpma, A., Zijdeman, R., Ashkpour, A., Dentler, K., Zandhuis, I., & Rietveld, L. (2018). The dataLegend ecosystem for historical statistics. Journal of Web Semantics, 50, 49–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2018.03.001
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Gilissen, V., Jonker, J., Vreugdenhil, T., & Doorn, P. (2018). Improving access to the Dutch historical censuses with linked open data. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1), 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-01000010
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2018). LOCS and KEYS: Linked Open Classification System and opening up knowledge. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2018), Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 4–7 April 2018.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Zijdeman, R., & Hoekstra, R. (2018). Making social science more reproducible by encapsulating access to linked data. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2018), Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 4–7 April 2018.
2017
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Guéret, C., & Schlobach, S. (2017). CEDAR: The Dutch historical censuses as linked open data. Semantic Web, 8(2), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-160233
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2017). LICR: A cocktail of religions. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Montreal, Canada, 2–5 November 2017.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Ashkpour, A. (2017). Actionable data links: Tools for reproducibility in social science and history. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Montreal, Canada, 2–5 November 2017.
Ashkpour, A., & Zijdeman, R. (2017). KDP Grant DANS — Subsidie Kleine Dataprojecten: Linking past and present — Augmenting historical municipality characteristics through harmonization and linkage with contemporary data. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).
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), 296–307. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.4.296-307
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2016). Geharmoniseerde historische census data — 1859–1920 [Dataset]. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z9j-x2vy
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., & Guéret, C. D. M. (2016). CEDAR RDF database: The Dutch historical censuses (1795–1971) as linked open data [Dataset]. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xpk-wj5w
Ashkpour, A., Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Mandemakers, K. (2016). Harmonizing aggregate historical Dutch census data: A flexible approach. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2016), Valencia, Spain.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Ashkpour, A. (2016). Historical quantitative reasoning on the web. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2016), Valencia, Spain.
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), 230–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2015.1026009
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Van Erp, M., Mandemakers, K., Breure, L., Scharnhorst, A., Schlobach, S., & Van Harmelen, F. (2015). Semantic technologies for historical research: A survey. Semantic Web, 6(6), 539–564. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-140158
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., Guéret, C., Scharnhorst, A., & Wyatt, S. (2015). CEDAR: Linked open census data — Project statement. DHCommons Journal, 1(1).
2014
Ashkpour, A., Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Mandemakers, K. (2014). CEDAR: Harmonization of historical Dutch census data. Paper presented at the 10th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2014), Vienna, Austria.
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2014). Census data in RDF [Dataset]. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2014). The CEDAR Project: Harmonizing the Dutch historical censuses in the Semantic Web. Paper presented at Digital Humanities Benelux 2014, The Hague, the Netherlands, 12 June 2014.
Ashkpour, A., & Meroño-Peñuela, A. (2014). Visualizations of the CEDAR Project. Paper presented at Digital Humanities Benelux 2014, The Hague, the Netherlands, 12–13 June 2014.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ashkpour, A., & Guéret, C. (2014). From flat lists to taxonomies: Bottom-up concept scheme generation in linked statistical data. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2014) (Vol. 1550). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1550/article-07.pdf
Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Ashkpour, A. (2014). From Napoleon conquests to the Big Brother sabotage: Harmonization of the Dutch historical censuses in the Semantic Web. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities Congress 2014, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 4–6 September 2014.
Meroño-Peñuela, A., & Ashkpour, A. (2014). Integrating historical census data in the Semantic Web. Paper presented at the Historical Network Research Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 15–19 September 2014.
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 & L. C. Pouchard (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 (LISC2012) — Tackling Big Data (Vol. 951). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-951/
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Hoekstra, R., Scharnhorst, A., Guéret, C., & Ashkpour, A. (2013). Longitudinal queries over linked census data. In The Semantic Web: ESWC 2013 Satellite Events (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7955, pp. 306–307). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41242-4_38
Meroño-Peñuela, A., Guéret, C., Ashkpour, A., & Scharnhorst, A. (2013). Publishing, harmonizing and consuming census data: The CEDAR Project. In Proceedings of the Open Data on the Web Workshop. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Open Data Institute, Open Knowledge Foundation, 23–24 April 2013.
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, 951. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-951/
