Introduction

Hi all,

I’ve just joined the WG. I’ve been lurking for a few months, but the itch to contribute has become too strong!

As a user of Semantic Web technologies, I want to apply data shapes to the validation of RDF Data Cubes, SKOS vocabularies, and DCAT catalogues.

As someone interested in bringing the Semantic Web to broader audiences, I want data shapes as a simple yet powerful addition to the data modeller’s toolbox.

As a fan of SPARQL, I want data shapes to be aligned with it.

For those I haven’t worked with before: I’m a software engineer based in Ireland. I’ve served on a number of W3C WGs (RDF, RDB2RDF, GLD, LDP). I’m a somewhat prolific author of metadata vocabularies (VoID, DCAT, QB, DDI-RDF, XKOS) and of open source projects (Pubby, D2RQ, Tarql). I run a registry for RDF namespace prefixes (prefix.cc) and created the “LOD Cloud Diagram”. I’ve previously been at FU Berlin, HP Labs Bristol, DERI Galway, and Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Now at TopQuadrant, I work on the vocabulary manager TopBraid EVN.

In my standards work, I try to be guided by the principle of advancing the RDF stack towards application areas where it has already proven to be successful. That being said, I also like RDF’s historical baggage and all the alluring yet impractical pie-in-the-sky visions.

I hope having another TopQuadrant employee here isn’t perceived as creating an imbalance. My interest in data shapes certainly predates my employment at TQ.

I’m looking forward to working with you.

Richard

Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:46:34 UTC