Introduction: John L. Clark

Hello.  I am the alternate representative for the Cleveland Clinic,
alongside Chimezie Ogbuji.

I only have a small amount of experience with the W3C, from my time on the
GRDDL working group, but I am eager to become more involved, and I think we
have some valuable experience here at the Clinic that can enrich the work on
SPARQL.  Personally, I am very interested in data and metadata formats with
an eye towards longevity and archival qualities (that is, avoiding bit rot
and other maladies) as well as broad interoperability.  This naturally
includes RDF, which in turn presumes a clear and powerful query facility.

That interest certainly includes XML, and now that I've read Bijan's
introduction, I look forward to being able to help with an XML format for
SPARQL queries.  I'm quite an XML junkie.  The idea of being able to both
emit and process SPARQLiX with XSLT and other generic XML tools greatly
appeals to me.

Take care,

    John L. Clark

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