Welcome Guangyuan Piao and John Breslin

Welcome Guangyuan Piao and John Breslin!  So pleased to have you join the Social Web Interest Group.



Hello Social Web IG folks -- Please meet some new members, from Insight Centre for Data Analytics<https://www.insight-centre.org/about/mission> (formerly DERI) at the  National University of Ireland, Galway.  Insight is a joint effort between 4 Irish universities and Science Foundation Ireland, to study and develop skills with 5 main areas of big data & data analytics:

*         Semantic Web

*         Sensors and the Sensor Web

*         Social network analysis

*         Decision Support and Optimization

*         Connected Health



John is a lecturer at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and Guangyuan Piao is a PhD student. I have not met Guangyuan Piao, so will wait for him or John to do the introductions. (Could you start with what name you would like us to use? And perhaps some pronunciation clues? :-) I did find Guangyuan Piao's web site<http://parklize.blogspot.ie/>, which has lots of interesting Semantic Web references. I also gleaned that he's Korean.



John Breslin has long been involved with the W3C and related Semantic Web communities. John is the creator of "SIOC -- Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantically-Interlinked_Online_Communities>", and co-authored the books "Social Semantic Web Mining" and "The Social Semantic Web".  Here's John's web site<http://www.johnbreslin.org/>.



John and I had a long chat yesterday. I gave him an overview of what's gone on so far in the WG and IG.  He has particular expertise and interest in the vocabulary aspects of our work.  Unfortunately he has a conflict during the time of our F2F in Paris. But said he might send a graduate student -- could that be Guangyuan Piao?



Wow, what a couple great additions to our team!  Plus, we just met Lynn Foster, and we await to meet Jason Haag.



Here's our wiki:  https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialig



See you all next Wednesday! - AnnB


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