Introductions

Hi,

It would be great if everyone could do a quick introduction on the list
about what their interests are, why they joined and maybe what they hope to
see the group achieve.

I can start...

I'm Graham Moore, and I've been working with semantic technologies for many
years. I have been co-editor of the ISO Topic Maps standard, and Topic Maps
Constaint Langauge standard, and also worked with Andy Seaborne on the RDF
Net API back in 2003 (
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2003/SUBM-rdf-netapi-20031002/). I build
semantic technology products for Networked Planet and BrightstarDB.

A few years back I was working with Peter Brown, Makx Dekkers and Marc
Kuster on a CEN project that was focusing on how government agencies could
share metadata about information assets. The requirements were that there
should be a low technical and political barriers to doing this. What came
out of this workshop was the first version of SDShare. It had the same
general shape as the current draft except the payload was Topic Maps and
not RDF. More recently I have been working with Lars Marius Garshol and
Axel Borge (of Bouvet AS) on projects which have used SDShare. As a result
the original specificaton got a makeover to make RDF the payload.

It was great to update the specification and create a home for it, but I'm
really looking forward now to getting input on this work from this W3C
Community Group. I hope that we resolve the remaining issues, and make
clear cases for when this protocol should be used. We are starting to see
that this protocol is of real benefit to organisations looking to aggregate
and synchronise data and it would be great to see this mechanism adopted by
more users and technology vendors. I see this community group as a great
place to start this process.

Cheers,

Graham

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Graham Moore
gra@brightstardb.com
BrightstarDB