- From: Alberto Reggiori <alberto@asemantics.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:47:43 +0100
- To: public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
hello world! :) my name is Alberto Reggiori, I am italian and I am currently a partner of Asemantics S.r.l [1] a start up company working on Semantic Web technologies and solutions having offices in Italy and the Netherlands. And recently joined the W3C. I have been working on Web technologies since 1995 either as consultant for small italian companies and as contractor for the Join Research Center (JRC) of EC. My background is in informatics and I have been mainly a UNIX programmer in various programming languages (C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP and others) and environments, and I contributed to some open-source and public domain projects; I worked on databases, GIS and XML and their integration with the Web. Since 1999 I have been involved in the RDF movement and I have been developing RDFStore [2], and open-source and native Semantic Web storage toolkit which deals with RDF directly and which can do RDQL [3] queries. The toolkit includes RDF/XML and N-Triples parsers. RDQL has also been extended in several ways to include more advanced features as required by Web applications I have been developing in the past months. In the past months I have been also involved and contributed a little bit to the SWAD-e project and to the earlier RDF query activity; on that I have been collaborating with Andy Seaborne, Libby Miller and Dan Brickley et al. to build a set of RDF query interoperability tests [4][5] and a RDF Query & Rules languages survey [6], which I still actively maintain. I am currently based in Italy, north of Milan, where I live and work. The best way to talk to me is email, even if sporadically I might pop up on the RDFIG IRC channel [7] too - I am generally not too quick in email replies even though I try to keep up with threads of interest :) The best is to ping me with an email before when you need me be either online or on the phone - or to remind me things I might have not fulfilled/done. I am very much glad to be part of this working group and I am happy to see such an effort coming together after some other fruitful work already done in the past. It is in my hope that this WG will provide some basic but very effective work and specifications to enable people to use and leverage more on RDF and related technologies. I personally see the discovery, query and retrieval aspects of an RDF query language as of vital importance for the upcoming new Web. I would expect that the result of our work to be of fundamental relevance and importance for the Web as whole and it would easy collaboration and interoperability with other parties. Last by not least, I would like this group trying to focus on getting a basic core specification out soon, implement it and extend and improve it later as necessary; this is probably the best approach to give us credibility and get other people more involved in our work and get feedback soon. And at the same time I feel like important to try to tackle the problem from the right side, find the right architectural compromises, without trying to solve all the world problems in one go :-) My very first concern of the RDF Data Access work is to provide a simple but very effective protocol/language to discover, query and retrieve RDF, which must be easily to implement and to understand. It is of vital importance that any syntax or specification we are going to provide will build on existing standards and protocols already deployed, to guarantee the best acceptance in the community and interoperability. Simple pull/select functionality is definitively at the core of our work to enable a more advanced Data Manipulation Language (DML) to be build on top of it later. Having the right extension points is also a key in our work to be evolvable and being reused in others/similar contexts. Even though I met some of the people of this WG in Cannes last week for the W3C TP meeting, I am looking forward to have soon a face-to-face meeting to talk about the WG work and exchange ideas about it. all the best Alberto http://foaf.asemantics.com/alberto [1] http://www.asemantics.com [2] http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net [3] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-RDQL-20040109/ [4] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdfqr-tests/ [5] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdfqr-tests/rdf-query-testcases.html [6] http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net/2002/06/24/rdf-query/ [7] irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/rdfig
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