- From: Ian Davis <ian.davis@talis.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:03:53 +0100
- To: public-grddl-wg@w3.org
I've been an independent consultant since about 1995 but last year was persuaded to join Talis, a 35+ year old library systems vendor. I've been working with the Semantic Web stack since about 2000 and have been a strong advocate for several years. I originally joined Talis to lead the Research Group but earlier this year I moved to lead the development of its new technology platform based in the web and RDF and designed for building large scale data-sharing applications. I'm the (co)author of several popular RDF vocabularies and run a free vocabulary hosting service at vocab.org. I was a member of the original RSS 1.0 working group and I have substantially contributed to a open source RDF framework for the .NET platform called Spiral. I designed those FOAF faces that adorn many web pages :) My main interest in this working group is due to some investigation I carried out last year into a union of microformats and RDF. I spent a little bit of time with the mf people and I was persuaded by several of their arguments about visible metadata. The result was a proposal I called embedded RDF (http://research.talis.com/2005/erdf/wiki) which is a way of embedding a subset of RDF into (X)HTML pages without inventing any new markup. eRDF is GRDDL-compatible and uses an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to extract RDF/XML from annotated pages. You can contact me by email ian.davis@talis.com, or by my personal email iand@internetalchemy.org. I am very often on IRC in #swig on freenode. You can MSN me at ian_alchemy@hotmail.com but I don't check email at that address. My skype name is ian_davis - I'll respond to textual chat, but probably not to voice calls without prearrangement. I blog mainly at http://iandavis.com/blog and I'll probably blog about GRDDL stuff there. I live in the midlands of England near Kettering, Northamptonshire and I commute to Birmingham three days a week. I am generally at home on Mondays and Fridays so those days are my preferred ones for conference calls. I'm definately unavailable for calls 7-10am, 5-9pm UTC+1 on Tue, Wed and Thur. Very late evening or night calls are fine for me on those days. Very early mornings are doable but unpleasant :) I hope to be able to help the GRDDL specification along to full recommendation. I would prefer not to introduce any new complexities or features. Basically GRDDL works for me as is, so I want only to focus on bug fixes and clarifications. I do think the document could do with refocussing with regards to the two main audiences - implementors of GRDDL engines and authors of GRDDLable documents. I can contribute some editing time, research into related areas and possibly some unit testing work. I plan to create a test suite for eRDF so there may be some related work there. Ian -- http://purl.org/NET/iand Blogging at... http://iandavis.com/blog Working on... http://directory.talis.com/
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