I am David Chaves-Fraga, assistant professor at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain) and a senior researcher at the Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies (CiTIUS@USC). I am a former researcher at the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) at Technical University of Madrid (UPM) where I hold my PhD with my thesis "Knowledge Graph Construction from Heterogeneous Data Sources Exploiting Declarative Mapping Rules" in 2021. I was also research collaborator at the Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence Group (DTAI) at KU Leuven, Belgium (2022-2025). My main research lines are focused on the optimization and evaluation of data integration systems, mainly the construction of Knowledge Graphs from (semi)structured sources using declarative mapping rules.
As I really believe that research is a collaborative task, I'm continuously trying to contribute to my research community. For that reason, I'm currently co-chairing the W3C community group for Knowledge Graph Construction, I organize a homonymous workshop series (KGCW) and gave several tutorials in semantic web conferences about this topic. Additionally, I have been the main coordinator of Open Summer of Code in Spain from 2018 to 2021, a formative, international, and innovative program for undergrad and master students.
Education
Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence (2016-2021) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Master in Articial Intelligence (2015-2016) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Bachelor in Computer Science (2011-2015) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
From Genesis to Maturity: Managing Knowledge Graph Ecosystems Through Life Cycles
Sandra Geisler,
Cinzia Cappiello, Irene Celino, David Chaves-Fraga, Anastasia Dimou, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Maurizio Lenzerini, Anisa Rula, Dylan Van Assche, Sascha Welten, and Maria-Esther Vidal. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2025
Declarative Generation of RDF-star Graphs from Heterogeneous Data
Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Ana Iglesias-Molina, David Chaves-Fraga, Daniel Garijo, Oscar Corcho and Anastasia Dimou. Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on Tools & Systems, 2025
Eduard Kamburjan, Romana Pernisch, Oscar Corcho, David Chaves-Fraga. 6th Edition of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop co-located with ESWC, 2025
Propagating Ontology Changes to Declarative Mappings in Construction of Knowledge Graphs
Diego Conde-Herreros, Lise Stork, Romana Pernisch, María Poveda-Villalón, Oscar Corcho, and David Chaves-Fraga. 5th Edition of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop co-located with ESWC, 2024
The RML Ontology: A Community-Driven Modular Redesign After a Decade of Experience in Mapping Heterogeneous Data to RDF
Ana Iglesias-Molina, Dylan Van Assche, Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Ben De Meester, Christophe Debruyne, Samaneh Jozashoori, Pano Maria, Franck Michel, David Chaves-Fraga, and Anastasia Dimou. International Semantic Web Confernece, 2023
Nominated for the Best Paper Award in the Resources Track
Declarative RDF construction from in-memory data structures with RML
Ioannis Dasoulas, David Chaves-Fraga, Daniel Garijo, and Anastasia Dimou. 4th Edition of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop co-located with ESWC, 2023
A High-Level Ontology Network for ICT Infrastructures
Oscar Corcho, David Chaves-Fraga, Jhon Toledo, Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, Mingxue Wang, Hu Peng, Nicholas Burrett, José Mora, Puchao Zhang International Semantic Web Conference, 2021
RML-star: A Declarative Mapping Languagefor RDF-star Generation
Thomas Delva, Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Oscar Corcho, David Chaves-Fraga, and Anastasia Dimou International Semantic Web Conference Demos, 2021
Knowledge Graph Construction with R2RML and RML: An ETL System-based Overview
Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Mario Scrocca, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Jhon Toledo, Luis Pozo-Gilo,Daniel Dona, Oscar Corcho, David Chaves-Fraga. 2nd Edition of the Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop co-located with ESWC, 2021
SDM-RDFizer: An RML Interpreter for the Efficient Creation of RDF Knowledge Graphs
Enrique Iglesias, Samaneh Jozashoori, David Chaves-Fraga, Diego Collarana, Maria-Esther Vidal International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2020
Morph-Skyline: Virtual Ontology-Based Data Access for Skyline Queries
Marlene Goncalves, David Chaves-Fraga, Oscar Corcho. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2020
What Are the Parameters that Affect the Construction of a Knowledge Graph?
David Chaves-Fraga, Kemele M Endris, Enrique Iglesias, Oscar Corcho, Maria-Esther Vidal. OTM Confederated International Conferences "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems", 2019
Conformance Test Cases for the RDF Mapping Language (RML)
Pieter Heyvaert, David Chaves-Fraga, Freddy Priyatna, Oscar Corcho, Erik Mannens, Ruben Verborgh, Anastasia Dimou. Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference, 2019
Towards the Definition of a Language-Independent Mapping Template for Knowledge Graph Creation.
Ana Iglesias-Molina, David Chaves-Fraga, Freddy Priyatna, Oscar Corcho. Third International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge co-located with 10th K-CAP, 2019
GraphQL Servers Generation from R2RML with Morph-GraphQL
Ahmad Alobaid, David Chaves-Fraga, Freddy Priyatna, Óscar Corcho. International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Demo), 2019
Optimized Term Extraction Method Based on Computing Merged Partial C-Values
Victoria Kosa, David Chaves-Fraga, Hennadii Dobrovolskyi, Vadim Ermolayev . International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, 2019
Similar Terms Grouping Yields Faster Terminological Saturation.
Victoria Kosa, David Chaves-Fraga, Nataliya Keberle, Aliaksandr Birukou. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, 2019
Cross-Evaluation of Automated Term Extraction Tools by Measuring Terminological Saturation.
Victoria Kosa, David Chaves-Fraga, Dmitriy Naumenko, Eugene Yuschenko, Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, Vadim Ermolayev, Aliaksandr Birukou. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, 2018
The Jedi Approach: Using The Force to Solve Linked Data Incompleteness.
Valentina Anita Carriero, David Chaves-Fraga, Arnaud Grall, Lars Heling, Subhi Issa, Thomas Minier, Alberto Moya Loustaunau. International Semantic Web Summer School, 2018
The tripscore Linked Data client: calculating specific summaries over large time series.
David Chaves-Fraga, Julian Rojas, Pieter-Jan Vandenberghe, Pieter Colpaert, Oscar Corcho. International Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web co-located with 16th ISWC, 2017
On the Role of the GRAPH Clause in the Performance of Federated SPARQL Queries
David Chaves-Fraga, Oscar Corcho Garcia, Claudio Gutiérrez. 4th International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Web Data co-located with 16th ISWC, 2017
Morph-KGCstar: Declarative Generation of RDF-star Datasets from Heterogeneous Data
David Chaves-Fraga David Chaves-Fragam, Julián Arenas-Guerro, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Daniel Garijo, Oscar Corcho, Anastasia Dimou EAVISE group talk - KULeuven, 2022
Knowledge Graph Construction and Access using Declarative Mappings
David Chaves-Fraga, Freddy Priyatna, Ahmad Alobaid, Andrea Cimmino, Ana Iglesias, Jhon Toledo, Daniel Doña, Luis Pozo, Edna Ruckhaus, Oscar Corcho National Project Meeting, 2020
The Jedi Approach: Using The Force to Solve Linked Data Incompleteness
Valentina Anita Carriero, David Chaves-Fraga, Arnaud Grall, Lars Heling, Subhi Issa, Thomas Minier, Alberto Moya Loustaunau International Semantic Web Summer School (ISWS), 2018