Re: Introductions

Hi everyone,

I'm excited that this group is starting up, and to be a part of it.

I have been working in this field loosely defined for about twenty years:
first in information and referral around immigrant services at Queens
Library, then designing information systems and doing performance
measurement consulting at the Vera Institute of Justice, and most recently
at Public Health Solutions where we administer city contracts for HIV
services.

I'm also adjunct faculty at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service and I
blog at http://humanserviceinformatics.wordpress.com/

Some particular interests of mine:

   1. more precisely defining the human service sector's set of information
   management problems;
   2. applying systems thinking to help resolve the problems defined;
   3. methodologies for coordinating information management across multiple
   stakeholder groups (operations/performance measurement/evaluation,
   funders/grantees, govt/nonprofit)
   4. domain/data modeling in the service of that coordination;
   5. conceptual clarification in the service of that modeling;

Looking forward to the conversation here!

Derek

derek.coursen@nyu.edu



On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Umapathy, Karthikeyan <k.umapathy@unf.edu>
wrote:

> Hello Eric,
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> Thanks for your introduction. I joined the group to observe conversations
> and hoping to learn from it. I am afraid that I will not be making any
> concrete contributions to the group.  I personally have very minimal
> experience in the area. I teach information systems courses at the
> University of North Florida. For senior project capstone course, I obtain
> projects from local non-profit organizations for my students. As most of
> the non-profit organizations are in the realm of human services, this group
> peaked my interest. I am looking forward to learning from the group on the
> problems in human services area and potential solutions that can be
> adopted.
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>
> Regards,
>
> Karthik
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> Karthikeyan Umapathy
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> Associate Professor
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> School of Computing
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> University of North Florida
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> 3214 Mathews Building (15)
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> 1 UNF Drive
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> Jacksonville, FL-32224
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> Call me at 904-620-1329
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> Visit me at http://www.karthikeyan.umapathy.com
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> *From:* eric@ejahn.net [mailto:eric@ejahn.net] *On Behalf Of *Eric Jahn
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 29, 2014 1:08 PM
> *To:* public-humanservices@w3.org
> *Subject:* Introductions
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> Welcome to the new W3C Human Services Community!  Before we dive into
> creating a charter, I just wanted to introduce myself, and encourage the
> rest of our currently small membership to introduce themselves as well.  So
> here's mine:
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> I'm Eric, and I've been working since around 2002 to harmonize human
> services standards, mainly within the United States agency systems.  Over
> the years, I've been surveying human services models and exchange
> specifications, talking with other practitioners in the human services data
> modeling field, and assisting the convergence of identified subdomains of
> human services.
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> I've worked with health exchanges (yes, I see healthcare as a subset of
> human services), homeless assistance systems, disaster response, and
> information and referral systems.   Modeling in a platform independent way
> seems to be the only path to achieving any sort of harmonization of a world
> quickly changing technologies and globally dispersed efforts.
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> Personally, I have an interest in Linked Data technologies, and how
> vocabularies represented for this format can be translated from general
> UML/ER diagrams.  I see Linked Data (Open or not) as a practical and simple
> way to share information, yet still requiring to purity and freedom of
> platform independent models, like UML.
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> I'm eager to learn from you all, but more importantly, to come to a basic
> democratic consensus on a universal way to represent human services
> constructs.  It doesn't have to be perfect, but over time, I feel this
> process will lead to a better result than any national or niche focus can
> provide.  Mainly, because we'll make fewer assumptions.
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> Okay, who's next?
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> -Eric
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> Eric Jahn
> Data Architect/IT Director
> Alexandria Consulting LLC
> St. Petersburg, Florida
> 727.537.9474
>
> alexandriaconsulting..com <http://alexandriaconsulting.com>
>