- From: Marja Koivunen <marja@annotea.org>
- Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:43:08 -0500
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Among other things I'm interested in life sciences and collaboration tools. I was a Fellow and a Research Scientist at MIT during 1998-2003 in the Semantic Web and the Accessibility Domains. Almost from the beginning I started developing Annotea shared annotations and later shared or social bookmarks and topics (http://www.annotea.org/eswc2005/01_koivunen_final.pdf). The initial aim was to support the W3C collaborative review process but it became useful for many other groups as well. Annotea is one of the first applications using the Semantic Web technologies. I still continue developing Annotea as I see so many great possibilities that I haven't been able to make myself stop. Early on, I did a lot of work to start the first meetings at W3C with different life science people; it is nice to see that those meetings have gradually evolved into this group. In the early meetings and many other occasions I demonstrated the possibilities of the Semantic Web in life science domain with Annotea annotations, bookmarks and topics. Here is one scenario related to that work http://www.w3.org/2003/12/cmlcase/cml.html. My background is in usability and user interfaces, another interesting cross-disciplinary field, but I also have studied some biophysics as part of my formal education at Helsinki University of Technology. Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Ph.D. more Annotea links http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea Annotea Ubimarks http://www.annotea.org
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