Re: Introduction

Sorry, I forgot to say that I had previously been involved within the W3C
Library Linked Data Incubator Group [1], and I currently participate in the
Government Linked Data Working Group.

Daniel Vila

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-usecase/

2012/5/31 Daniel Vila <dvila@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es>

> Hi all,
>
> I am a PhD student in the Ontology Engineering Group from UPM (Spain). My
> background is from web development and software engineering world in
> industry and now I am actively involved in several R&D Linked Data
> projects, especially in the datos.bne.es project.
>
> In the context of my my work, I am really interested in data-driven and
> hypermedia applications, and data integration and evolution from
> heterogeneous sources, and in applying REST-like interaction patterns
> through HTTP and URIs to Linked Data, thus I find the proposal of this WG
> very relevant and I am looking forward to working with the group and trying
> to contribute to it.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Daniel Vila Suero
>
>
> 2012/5/31 Antonis Loizou <a.loizou@vu.nl>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a post-doc researcher in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
>> Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [1].
>> I'm currently working on the OpenPHACTS IMI project [2] . A large part of
>> this project is the integration of publicly
>> available pre-competitive data (RDF) in the Pharmacology domain to
>> provide a platform and API for exposing personalized views
>> over the data and drive application development.
>>
>> Through my involvement in OpenPHACTS and past experience, I've come to
>> accept that writing SPARQL queries over large and
>> complex datasets is to large a burden for the application developer, let
>> alone end-users. Moreover user-facing applications need
>> standardized and flexible ways to provide server-side pagination combined
>> with interactive filtering/sorting of results.
>>
>> Best regards and I look forwarding to working with all of you
>> Antonis
>>
>> [1] http://www.few.vu.nl/~alu900/
>> [2] http://www.openphacts.org/
>>
>>
>>
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