MENZO WINDHOUWER

WELCOME, on this page you can find information on the database related research and development I, Menzo Windhouwer, did in the last few years at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI ), the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics. I'm currently employed by the MPI, but I'm also guest researcher at the UvA.

FOR THE MPI I'm developing a web application, called ISOcat, which is an implementation of a Data Category Registry (DCR) as described by the ISO 12620:2009 standard developed in ISO/TC37/SC3/WG1. ISOcat is currently in beta, but already useable for day-to-day work. Remaining development focuses on the support for the standardization process.

THE TYPOLOGICAL DATABASE SYSTEM (TDS) we developed at the UvA is aimed at providing a common linguistic, i.e. typologist, expert interface to several heterogenuous and international databases. The technology deployed ranges from traditional relations database systems to cutting edge semantic web technology, bridged by XML related technolgies.

BEFORE  I started working at the TDS project I finished my PhD thesis at CWI. The title of my thesis was "Feature Grammar Systems - Incremental Maintenance of Indexes to Digital Media Warehouses". It describes the mathematical theory of Feature Grammar Systems and their implementation implications. Feature grammar systems are used to describe and steer the automatic extraction of annotations or meta-data from multimedia objects.  The described system was prototyped in the CWI internal Acoi project, which has been deployed in several related national projects: Waterland, DMW and MIA.

A LIST of my publications can be found here.

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