Introduction of Jack Jansen

Here's my introduction (finally),

my name is Jack Jansen, and I work at Centrum voor Wiskunde en  
Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam.

I'm interested in opening up multimedia for accessibility and reuse,  
so that audio/video (but also complex media) can become first class  
citizens on the web, and be used and re-used in the same way text  
currently can: blogging and syndication, cooperative editing as with  
Wiki's, in-context deep-linking, mashups, etc.

The long term goal for this is user empowerment: enable end users to  
find, access and reuse media in a way that suits their particular  
needs. I'm more an architecture/infrastructure than a solutions guy:  
I'm interested in providing the technologies to enable other people to  
build the solutions. A good solution tends to solve only a single  
problem, or a few related ones, whereas a good open architecture  
enables as many solutions to different problems as people can imagine.

Besides the Media Fragments WG I'm also a member of the Synchronous  
Multimedia WG (SYMM) and the Rich Web Application Backbone XG (RWAB).

My homepage is at <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack>.
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
Goldman