Re: DW WG: First call agenda and presentations

Dear all,

My name is Vinh Nguyen. I am currently a PhD student at Kno.e.sis center,
Wright State University in Ohio.

My research is in the intersection of relational databases and semantic
web. One of my recent projects proposes an RDF representation for capturing
metadata such as provenance, temporal, and spatial for individual triples.
I applied this method to create RDF datasets from the UMLS and semantic
predications obtained from PubMed articles. I am also a part of another
project where we are planning to publish more and more data to the web. So
this would be a good opportunity for me to learn from you all and
contribute to the working group.

Looking forward to working with you all.

Cheers,
Vinh



On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I should introduce myself too.
>
> Background
> ==========
> I got into W3C and the Semantic Web through working on online safety. That
> lead me eventually to chair the working group that developed a Sem Web
> standard called POWDER (whose day may yet come!). An expected application
> of that technology at the time was in making mobile-friendly Web sites more
> easily discoverable and I spent a lot of time in the Mobile Web Best
> Practices WG [1] that I think will be a useful reference for this new WG.
>
> I joined the W3C Team in February 2009, initially to develop and run the
> online training course we offer in mobile Web (based on the standards I'd
> helped create). In 2011 I switched to working on eGovernment and, in a bit
> of a re-organisation last month, took on the role of Data Activity Lead
> which means I coordinate the WGs in what were the Semantic Web and
> eGovernment activities, looking for new opportunities etc.
>
> I work from home about an hour outside London.
>
> Role in the WG
> ==============
> My role as Team Contact is to support the chairs and the working group.
> I'll advise on the W3C process, help manage the logistics etc. but it is
> the chairs, not me or anyone else at W3C, who sets the agenda (literally or
> metaphorically).
>
> The origins of the WG go back to a workshop held in London in April 2013
> [2]. Several themes emerged from that workshop, one of which, the work to
> be done around tabular data, has lead to the formation of a separate
> working group [3]. This WG is about most of everything else, in particular,
> building the ecosystem for data on the Web.
>
> Really looking forward to getting started.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/report
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/
>
> --
>
>
> Phil Archer
> W3C Data Activity Lead
> http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
>
> http://philarcher.org
> +44 (0)7887 767755
> @philarcher1
>
>


-- 
Vinh Nguyen <http://knoesis1.wright.edu/students/vinh>, PhD student
Research Assistant at Knoesis <http://knoesis.org> center