Christoforos Vradis
PhD student & Researcher at the Geography Department of Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
A short CV
Academic interests
- Cartography and Geovisualization
- Semantic Modelling with Geospatial Ontologies and Linked Open Geodata
Education
- Currently a PhD student in the Geography Department of Harokopio University in Athens. Thesis title: "Semantic modelling of geospatial information from historical maps".
- M.Sc. in Geoinformation Technology, Department of Geography and Topographic Science, Glasgow University
- School of Rural and Land Surveying, National Technical University of Athens (1993)
- Fluent in Greek and English.
Professional experience
- Web mapping application full-stack developer (2010 - present)
- Thematic Cartography lab assistant, Geography Department, Harokopio University of Athens (2014 - 2023)
- Member of the Greek Archaeological Cadastre project team, Ministry of Culture, (2011 - 2019)
- Various freelance projects involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in archaelogy, rural / urban planning, land surveying and highway engineering.
Some technical skills
- GIS & Cartography software: QGIS, ArcGIS, GeoServer, PostGIS
- Web development with HTML, CSS, JavasSript, Python, Django, OpenLayers, LeafletJS, and more.
Portfolio
- Representations of Cyprus
- Kitchener's survey of Cyprus 1878 - 1883 website (version 1.0)
- Kitchener's survey of Cyprus 1878 - 1883 (upgraded version 2.0)
- Mapping Panorama of Greek Census Data 1991 - 2011 (version 1.0)
- Mapping Panorama of Greek Census Data 1991 - 2011 (upgraded version 2.0)
- The 1832/33 Ottoman Property Survey of Cyprus
Presentations and videos
- How was Rigas Charta made? (video presentation in Greek, Hack the Map: Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta, National Student Competition of Digital Works about the Charta of Rigas Velestinlis (Onassis Foundation / Onassis Library))
- From Rigas Charta to Google Maps (video presentation in Greek) (Hack the Map, National Student Competition)
- Από τη «Χάρτα του Ρήγα» στους Χάρτες της Google (video presentation in Greek) (Hack the Map, National Student Competition)
Publications
- Christos Chalkias, Christoforos Vradis and Margarita Kokla (2017>). Managing geospatial information and ontologies of historical maps: Empirical evidences from the analysis of Kitchener’s survey of Cyprus. In: Proceedings of the AGILE Pre-conference workshop “Bridging space, time, and semantics in GIScience”. Wageningen, The Netherlands, 9 May 2017, 6 pp.
- Hadjikyriacou, A., Papadias, E., Vradis, C., and Chalkias, C.: Combining historical maps and censuses of Cyprus from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: A geospatial approach, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 7, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-7-2021, 2021
- Petropoulos, G. (Tr.), Chalkias, C. (Tr.), Myofa, N. (Tr.), & Vradis, C. (Tr.). (2022). Elements of Cartography and Geographic Information Systems [Undergraduate textbook, in Greek]. ISBN 978-618-5667-53-5. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-34
Other pages
- My Wikidata user profile
- https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-2986-4828
- Academia.edu
- My Flickr photostream (currently not updating it, will soon attempt to semantically enrich it though)
- Facebook, Twitter and other social media upon request.
Personal interests
- Alternative electronic music. Used to contribute content to the www.ebm.gr portal. Here's an old album review I once wrote.
Contact
- cvradis[at]hua.gr
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