Curriculum Vitae and Publications Etienne Posthumus

Etienne Posthumus is a Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Information Service Engineering. Before that, he was responsible for Digital Publishing innovations at Brill Publishers from Leiden, The Netherlands. He is the creator and maintainer of the online ICONCLASS multi-lingual subject classification system for Digital Art History, and has extensive experience in cultural heritage computing applications and (meta)data. He has worked in industry as a consultant for SANOMA publishers, Mediahuis Nederland, PWC, Siemens Nixdorf, INET Bridge and in academia as a Research Software Engineer for Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and TU Delft. He completed a master's degree in Book History and Manuscript studies at the University of Amsterdam (2015), and a bachelor computer science (cum laude) at the University of Johannesburg (1994).

He likes to make simple solutions to complex problems.

Citations

Etienne Posthumus @ DBLP

2023

• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, L. Söhn, J. Tolksdorf, E. Posthumus, J.J. Steller, H. Fliegl, E. Norouzi, J. Waitelonis, T. Schrade, H. Sack: From Floppy Disks to 5-Star LOD: FAIR Research Infrastructure for NFDI4Culture. In Proc. of 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2023. [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX) | (presentation slides)].
• C. Santini, E. Posthumus, T. Tietz, M. A. Tan, O. Bruns, H. Sack: Multimodal Search on Iconclass using Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models. In Proc. of JCDL 2023, [local copy (PDF)].
• T. Tietz, O. Bruns, H. Fliegl, E. Posthumus, T. Schrade, H. Sack: Knowledge Graph-basierte Forschungsdatenintegration in NFDI4Culture. In Proc. of the DHd 2023, Open Humanities Open Culture, 9. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7748740, [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX)].

2022

• C. Santini, M. A. Tan, T. Tietz, O. Bruns, E. Posthumus, H. Sack: Knowledge Extraction for Art History: the Case of Vasari’s The Lives of The Artists (1568). In Proc. of the 3rd Conference on Digital Curation Technologies (QURATOR 2022) [local copy (PDF) | (BibTeX)].
• E. Posthumus, H. Brandhorst, H. Sack: The Art Historian’s Bicycle Becomes an E-Bike. In Proc. VISART 2022 (Workshop at the European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV). [local copy (PDF)]
• M. A. Tan, E. Posthumus, H. Sack: Audio Ontologies for Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Proceedings of the 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference - Posters and Demos (ESWC2022). [local copy (PDF) | (BIBTex)]

Creator and maintainer of the online ICONCLASS multi-lingual subject classification system for Digital Art History.

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