Re: Welcome and Introductions

Hi -

A few words about me, Chris Harding. I was for many years a staff member 
of The Open Group, supporting the work of its members on a variety of 
topics, including semantic interoperability. At the end of last year I 
left the Open Group's employ and formed a new company, Lacibus Ltd, to 
provide services based on virtual data lakes and data-centered 
architecture.

The goal of the group is adventurous, but it may be that the time has 
come when we can start to do useful work that could lead to standards 
for knowledge exchange, so all credit to Paola for setting up a forum to 
exchange ideas!

The approach that I would like to follow is to consider knowledge as a 
property of a community, rather than an individual (though we might 
think of an individual as a special case: a community of one). This has 
in the past been captured, not only in the minds of community members, 
but also in shared artifacts - particularly books. Now it is 
increasingly stored in IT systems, and this is the area that we will 
focus on.

I look forward to participating in the work of the group.

Paola Di Maio wrote:
> Thank you very much for joining and to W3C for supporting and hosting 
> this CG
>
> Looks like we are off to a great start :-)
>
> I have started a few pages
> https://www.w3.org/community/aikr/welcome/
>  please check them out when you have a mo Let us know if everyone can 
> read  and write  (or suggest/ make changes)
>
> We now have 17 great  members on board to start with: Please share a 
> few words about yourself (if you like)
> About me (PDM):  Former  journalist and digital publisher covering 
> current affair topics, then London based science and technology 
> correspondent, early nineties I had to learn about the web and new 
> technologies to continue to do my job. I then became fascinated by the 
> web, mostly with its beauty as a universal server of all world (and 
> other world) knowledge and became somewhat inextricably entangled with 
> it an now I  have started to rapidly co evolve with the web and its 
> knowlege it brings me.  I undertook various pursuits in digital 
> publishing, including launghing an online magazine
> (content-wire.com <http://content-wire.com>)  In the last few years I 
> have worked on Technology Ethics, as a EuroSPES fellow. I have 
> experience working in global community management, organised high 
> profile workshops and seminars worldwide (in different languages),and 
> served as an academic editor and publisher. I've done some many things 
> I can't remember.
> I met in person only Irene Celine (Hi Irene will you serve a cochair) 
> and virtually several of you, including old timers like Chris Harding 
> of the OPen Group (feels one hundred years ago), hope to meet people 
> in person.
> Especially glad to see an IIT Bombay guy (welcome) as I worked as 
> visiting professor for IIT Mandi some years ago. Welcome Mari from 
> UPM, are you in Asun's group?
>
> I take the opportunity to remember Bobrow 
> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Bobrow2> who
> sadly passed last year, by sharing this seminal article 
> <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1207/s15516709cog0101_2> 
> which I think we should all read, if we haven't already
>
> Thanks again for joining, and look forward to great times ahead
>
> We'll dive into work organisation in the next week or so.
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> *A bit about me <https://about.me/paoladimaio>*
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Regards

Chris
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Chief Executive, Lacibus <https://lacibus.net> Ltd
chris@lacibus.net