- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:22:45 -0500
- To: public-grddl-wg@w3.org
How about we start with introductions? I'm particularly interested in -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the work of this group -- as much contact info as you care to share on this public list -- what you expect to get out of this WG -- what you hope/expect to contribute. Before W3C, I studied computer science at U.T. Austin. I worked at Convex doing hypertext documentation for supercomputer software; then I went to a Atrium where I wrote a client for some their enterprise print management system; then I went to HaL to help them add Web smarts to the online docs for the workstation they were building. (more bio/vita: http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/misc/vita) I joined W3C in March 1995. I'm a member of the TAG and the Semantic Web Coordination Group. I edited HTML 2.0, chaired the WG on HTML 4.0 and CSS 1, participated in the XML Schema Working Group, served as team contact for the WG on OWL, and chaired the RDF Data Access WG thru the Candidate Rec of SPARQL. I work out of my home in the Kansas City area, and I travel to W3C meetings etc. about once a month. I don't publish my office phone number, but I do make it available to W3C members. Another near-real-time contact mechanism is IRC. When I'm in office-mode, I'm generally also in the #swig channel on freenode. (more contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/#contact) The premise of W3C is that working together on new Web technologies is better than working separately. In particular, as staff contact, my job is to see that the time each of you spends in this group is well spent. First and foremost, our time will have been well spent if the technology we develop gets widely deployed. But along the way, it's important that each of us feels our peers understand and acknowledge our contribution, even when they do not agree. So I hope to contribute to this WG by fostering a spirit of open and effective collaboration. It's also my job to see that our work is consistent with work done elsewhere in W3C: that it's accessible, internationalized, follows Web Architecture, etc. By way of disclosure: I have a rather personal investment in GRDDL, having worked on it since at least as far back as May 2003. I hope that's an asset to this group more often than it's a liability ;-) What I hope to get from this group is to resolve the remaining issues in the GRDDL spec and get interoperability among a critical mass of tools that will support a large body of Semantic Web data. And I'd like to get a bunch of tutorials and how-to articles that promote and support adoption. I'd like to see lots more people finding it cost-effective to make their data Semantic Web-friendly. I think that eventually people will see that the constrained RDF/XML syntax is really useful since it supports arbitrary merging, but for first, using GRDDL to relate existing XML dialects to the RDF abstract syntax will allow us to use OWL and SPARQL and such with stuff like microformats, maybe Atom, and so on. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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