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. I spend the most time in Amsterdam
where my contact details are:
Dr. M.A.Windhouwer
Theoretische Taalwetenschap (UvA)
Spuistraat 210 (Bungehuis), room 306
1012 VT Amsterdam
++31 20 525 3104
M.A.Windhouwer@uva.nl
FOR THE MPI I'm developing a web application, called ISOcat, which will be the reference implementation of a Data Category Registry (DCR) as described by the revision of the ISO 12620 standard developed in ISO/TC37/SC3/WG1. The challenges of the DCR lie mainly on the technical site. For example, ISOcat should support a distributed setup were multiple instances keep eachother synchronized.
THE TYPOLOGICAL DATABASE SYSTEM (TDS) we developed 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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