Research papers

Papers and talks about the LDES specification, its implementation, and deployments that use it to exchange data. Each entry explains its relevance. Work focused on TREE indexing, query traversal, or general Linked Data infrastructure belongs in the TREE bibliography. Missing an LDES publication? Let us know.

2025

• The Linked Data Event Streams (LDES) profile for cultural heritage datasets

  Talk

  An LDES application profile for exchanging cultural heritage data.

  Freire, N., Colpaert, P., Stabenau, A., Isaac, A., Meijers, E., and Tzouvaras, V.

  SWIB25 (Semantic Web in Libraries)

  Talk announcement

• Semantic and technically interoperable data exchange in the Flanders Smart Data Space

  Paper

  Describes LDES as the exchange mechanism and the building blocks used to publish and consume streams.

  Van Lancker, D., Logghe, S., Rojas, J., De Craene, A., Vanlishout, Z., and Colpaert, P.

  The Semantic Web – ISWC 2024, Part III (in-use track; proceedings published in 2025)

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77847-6_16

  Preprint PDF · Vlaamse Smart Data Space website

2022

• Linked Data Event Streams in Solid containers

  Paper

  Explores implementing LDES in Solid containers.

  Slabbinck, W., Dedecker, R., Vasireddy, S., Verborgh, R., and Colpaert, P.

  Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web

  Presentation at MEPDaW22

• Publishing cultural heritage collections of Ghent with Linked Data Event Streams

  Paper

  Documents publishing museum and archive collections as LDES.

  Van de Vyvere, B., Van D'Huynslager, O., Atauil, A., Segers, M., Van Campe, L., Vandekeybus, N., Teugels, S., Saenko, A., Pauwels, P.-J., and Colpaert, P.

  Proceedings of the Metadata and Semantics Research Conference 2021

  PDF · The published LDES · Presentation at MTSR2021 · Video: technical setup

2021

• Publishing base registries as Linked Data Event Streams

  Paper

  Introduces LDES for replicating and synchronising base registries.

  Van Lancker, D., Colpaert, P., Delva, H., Van de Vyvere, B., Rojas Meléndez, J., Dedecker, R., Michiels, P., Buyle, R., De Craene, A., and Verborgh, R.

  Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2021)

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74296-6_3

  PDF · Presented at ENDORSE2021

• Publishing the Marine Regions Gazetteer as a Linked Data Event Stream

  Paper

  Documents the Marine Regions LDES publication and its use for data exchange.

  Lonneville, B., Delva, H., Portier, M., Van Maldeghem, L., Schepers, L., Bakeev, D., Vanhoorne, B., Tyberghein, L., and Colpaert, P.

  S4BioDiv 2021, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2969

  PDF · The published LDES