~ Introduction to Sampo-UI at FedOSC Linked Open Data Visualisation Workshop

FedOSC, the Belgian Federal Open Science Cloud, supports open science and research data management at Belgium’s federal scientific institutions. On 8 September 2026, it organised a day on data visualisation and Linked Open Data at KIK-IRPA in Brussels, with talks, demos and a approaches on cultural heritage datasets.

My contribution to the closing talks was an introduction to Sampo-UI, an open-source framework for building search and visualisation interfaces on top of Linked Open Data. I explained why we use it at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities: several projects need similar filters, maps and data exports, so it makes sense to reuse a common framework. The presentation covers how Sampo-UI works, our contributions to it, and a practical example with the NuMAD coin database.

The Sampo-UI presentation is available online and embedded below.

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