SV: Introductions

Hi all.

My name is Inge Henriksen, and I'm CEO & Founder of Meronymy. I've implemented semantic enterprise/semantic technology solutions since 2007 and the current SDShare draft is based on the work I did for The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training in 2007-2008 when I was employed in Bouvet as a IT-Consultant. I've also been a keen observer of the Topic Maps ISO standardization. My company, Meronymy, is currently developing a triple store called Meronymy SPARQL Database Server which plans to implements SDShare.

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Kind regards,
Inge Henriksen.

Meronymy
Forskningsparken, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway.
Phone: +47 40 45 44 74
E-mail: inge@meronymy.com<mailto:inge@meronymy.com>
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About me: http://about.me/ingehenriksen

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Fra: Graham Moore [mailto:gra@brightstardb.com]
Sendt: 9. oktober 2012 15:32
Til: public-sdshare@w3.org
Emne: 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<mailto:gra@brightstardb.com>
BrightstarDB