Introduction

[Apologies if this ends up arriving more than once - I've been having problems 
posting to the mailing list.  #g.]


Hello,

I am Graham Klyne, participating in this group as an employee of Oxford University.


Background:

For many years I have been a commercial software developer, working mainly in
areas related to science, engineering and computer networking.  About 14 years
ago, I became involved in international technical standardization activities,
initially with the IETF (http://www.ietf.org/), and later here with the W3C,
being a participant and document editor in the second RDF working group
(http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/).

About 6 years ago, I joined the Image Bioinformatics Research Group in the
Zoology Department at Oxford University to work on applying RDF and Semantic Web
technologies to real applications for research data.

My earliest brush with matters relating to provenance came when I working with
the W3C CC/PP working group (http://www.w3.org/Mobile/CCPP/Historic-CCPP1) to
create an RDF-based framework for representing capabilities and user preferences
of mobile devices.  (This became, as far as I know, the first W3C recommendation
to be based entirely on RDF.)  Here, the issue of dealing with and resolving
potentially conflicting information was encountered.  It became clear that,
using RDF as it then was, there was no clear-cut mechanism for capturing the
modalities of various contributions to an RDF graph in a way that allowed for
flexible resolution of conflicts.  This led me to do some contemplation and
reading more generally about how to formally contextualize information in RDF,
and the ways that such contextualization might be used.  But then my working
environment changed, and this early interest was left behind.

More recently, I've been working on systems for research data management and
curation.


Provenance working group involvement:

I am now engaged with an EU workflow preservation project, Wf4Ever
(http://www.wf4ever-project.org/), which prompts my involvement with this WG.  I
am working with Dr Jun Zhao on aspects of authenticity and integrity in workflow
preservation, which turn are anticipated to involve collection and processing of
provenance information.

For my involvement, my expectation is that I will track evolving working group
outputs and use these to guide the development of software to handle provenance
information.  My aspiration will be to provide early implementation feedback
that can hopefully help to improve the specifications as they develop.

#g
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Received on Monday, 9 May 2011 13:08:30 UTC