Re: DW WG: First call agenda and presentations

Dear All,

My name is João Paulo A. Almeida and I am a Professor at the Computer
Science Department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Brazil
(and colleague of Giancarlo at the Ontology and Conceptual Modelling
Research Group).

I¹m mostly interested in semantic interoperability and in the quality of
vocabularies (ontology-based vocabulary design and evaluation). My main
recent academic work is on the use of ontologies in enterprise modelling
(organisation structure, business processes, goal modelling) and in the
modelling of service-oriented architectures (see [1] for publications on
these themes).  (Hence, my interest in the ORG ontology in the Government
Linked Data (GLD) Working Group in the past).

I hope DWBP will serve as a forum for fruitful work in order to support
semantic interoperability in the web.

Best regards,
João Paulo

[1] http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/jpalmeida


From:  Giancarlo Guizzardi <gguizzardi@gmail.com>
Date:  Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 8:51 AM
To:  <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Cc:  Yasodara Córdoba <yaso@nic.br>, <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: DW WG: First call agenda and presentations
Resent-From:  <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Resent-Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:15:24 +0000

Hello everyone,

My names is Giancarlo Guizzardi and I am an Associate Professor
and co-coordinator of the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group
(NEMO) [1], at the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) in Brazil.
I am also an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Ontology
(LOA)
at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and a visiting professor
at the University of Trento, Italy.

I have been working with Ontologies for the past 17 years both as
a researcher but also helping technology transfer in a number of
industrial sectors. I have published extensively on the subjects
of Ontology and Conceptual Modeling [2] and have been involved also in a
number of initiatives of ontology outreach (e.g.,
as member of the executive council and advisory board of
the International Association for Ontologies and Applications [3],
or as the general organizational chair for 8th International Conference
on Formal Ontology and Information Systems - FOIS 2014 [4]).

Looking forward to working with you all.

-Giancarlo

[1] http://http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/
[2] http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/Education.htm
[3] http://www.iaoa.org/
[4] http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar <mlvarez@w3.org>
wrote:
> Thanks, Yaso.
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> My name is Martin Alvarez, the Manager of the W3C Office in Spain [1].
> I also work as consultant for CTIC Foundation [2], having been
> involved in a dozen of Open Data initiatives in Spain ­most of them
> with some Semantic Web components. I've worked as advisor for the
> Spanish government in the development of a technical standard for
> interoperability of Open Data catalogs, which enables semantic
> interoperability, based on DCAT, among all-governmental-level public
> bodies. Apart from this, I'm part of the Advisory Board for the ePSI
> Platform [3], a tool of the European Commission to build community
> around PSI reuse in Europe.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://w3c.es
> [2] http://ctic.es
> [3] http://epsiplatform.eu
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Yaso <yaso@nic.br> wrote:
>> > Hello participants of the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group!
>> >
>> > I'm Yaso, or Yasodara Córdova, one of the chairs of this group. I'm
>> > writing to confirm our first teleconference, that will be on Friday 24th
>> > January at 14:00 GMT.
>> >
>> > I suggest that you take a look at the Working Group's Wiki [1]. As Phil
>> > said before useful tools for the work that we are going to develop are
>> > linked there.
>> >
>> > The agenda for the 1st call is also there [2] (and below), the details
>> > for the conference (zakim number, etc) will be there until 24 before the
>> > call and we will send to this list as well.
>> >
>> > This is the agenda for friday (24th):
>> >
>> > Preliminary Items (~20minutes)
>> > - Who's in the WG
>> > - Brief presentation of participants
>> >
>> > Main Agenda (~35minutes)
>> > - What participating in the group means
>> >   - Meetings
>> >   - F2F Meetings
>> > - WG procedures (e.g. scribes, scribe/alternate schedule, irc, minutes,
>> > editors, use of wiki, mailing lists...)
>> > - What the group is (charter)
>> > - What do we need to accomplish (deliverables)
>> >   - What problems we want to solve
>> >         - Data on the Web Best Practices
>> >         - Quality and Granularity Description Vocabulary
>> >         - Data Usage Description Vocabulary
>> >   - Who's going to benefit from the results
>> > - Task Forces
>> > - Reminders (~5minutes)
>> >   - Next call
>> >
>> > I would like to ask each of you to send a brief presentation to this
>> > list, antecipating the 20 first minutes of our conference. *For saving
>> > time ;-)*
>> >
>> > Feel free to copy or follow the model of my presentation below:
>> >
>> > I graduate in Industrial Design but work with digital tech since I was
>> > twelve. I'm a UX Designer and developer, with past experience in
>> > designing digital enviroments to the government, focusing on improving
>> > direct citizen participation.
>> >
>> > Nowadays I work for Brazilian Internet Steering Committee[3], in the W3C
>> > Brazil Office, and I'm responsible for some projects on Open Data and
>> > Open Web. My user on GitHub is ~yaso.
>> >
>> > For me it's an honor to work with you in this group, and I barely can't
>> > wait to start the work.
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> >
>> > Yaso
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/
>> > [2] http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Main_Page#Agenda
>> > [3] http://cgi.br/
>> >
>> > --
>> > Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br
>> > W3C Brazil Office
>> > @yaso - yaso.eu <http://yaso.eu>
>> >
>> > 55 11 5509-3537 (4025)
>> > skype: yasocordova
>> >
>> >
> 
> --
> Martin Alvarez Espinar
> W3C Spain Office Manager        tel.:+34 984390616 <tel:%2B34%20984390616>
> http://www.w3c.es/Personal/Martin   mlvarez@w3..org <mailto:mlvarez@w3.org>
>