FW: introductions: Anita de Waard

My name is Anita de Waard, I work for Elsevier's Advanced Technology Group
where my special interest is the semantic web and data standards. I am the
chair of the reed Elsevier data standards group, and as such working to get
Reed Elsevier back on board with W3C. I did a project on using drug
ontologies for disclosing life science information (DOPE). Recently, I
recieved a grant from the Dutch government to work on a semantic structure
for the scientific article, and will be based at the University of Utrecht
for half my time to work on that. I am interested in (discussing) ideas
about publishing scientific articles in more modular, knowledge-centric
ways, and connecting them through semantic web technologies (e.g. a first
small step for conference proceedings:
http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/ABCDEF). 
My background is in (experimental low-temperature) physics, which I studied
in Leiden and Moscow. 

Anita de Waard
Advanced Technology Group, Elsevier
University of Utrecht, Centre for Content and Knowledge Engineering
a.dewaard@elsevier.com http://labs.elsevier.com/resources/adw


>> My name is Eric Miller, and I'm the Semantic Web Activity Lead for 
>> the W3C. Some various details (albeit a bit dry :) can be found on my 
>> home page:
>>
>> [[
>> Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical 
>> leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web 
>> infrastructure. Responsibilities additionally include working with 
>> W3C members so that both working groups in the Semantic Web activity, 
>> as well as other W3C activities, produce Web standards and 
>> conventions that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally, to 
>> build support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web 
>> by illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of 
>> participating in the creation of a Web of Data. And finally to 
>> establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved in 
>> Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing Semantic 
>> Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work in this
area.
>>
>> Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC 
>> Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the co-founder and Associate 
>> Director of the The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, an open forum 
>> engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards 
>> that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
>>
>> Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial 
>> Intelligence Laboratory.
>> ]]
>> -- http://www.w3.org/People/EM/
>>
>> next? :)
>>
>> -- 
>> eric miller                              http://www.w3.org/people/em/
>> semantic web activity lead               http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
>> w3c world wide web consortium            http://www.w3.org/

Received on Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:25:50 UTC