Solid World March 2026: Modelling, analysing, and sharing research data Free webinar, Monday, March 23 · 4 - 5pm GMT

Solid World March 2026: Modelling, analysing, and sharing research data

Free webinar, Monday, March 23 · 4 - 5pm GMT

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This month we are delighted to welcome Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C
Principal Data Strategist, and Salomé Durand, Computer Science
Undergraduate, as they present SpOTy
<https://aslan.universite-lyon.fr/projets-finances-par-aslan/projet-spoty-189659.kjsp?RH=1525438355903>
.


The session will be chaired by Roberto Breitman, Solid Community Manager at
the ODI. They’ll be joined for an audience Q&A session with Alice Vittrant,
Professor of Linguistics at Université Lumière Lyon 2 / CNRS-DDL research
center; Karl Seifen, research and teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille
University and Laboratoire Parole et Language (France) and Thomas Francart,
senior knowledge graph consultant.


The presentation


The SpOTy
<https://aslan.universite-lyon.fr/projets-finances-par-aslan/projet-spoty-189659.kjsp?RH=1525438355903>
project aims to cross-fertilize the fields of linguistics and knowledge
engineering. It was first developed as a Web application leveraging RDF to
help researchers in linguistics organise and analyse their data. In
particular, Sparnatural <https://sparnatural.eu/> proved a very efficient
way for them to easily create complex queries.


During the project, it was rewritten as a Solid application, to provide
users with finer-grained control over when and how they share their
research data. One challenge of this migration was porting the Sparnatural
feature.

Speakers

Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C Principal Data Strategist <https://champin.net/>

Pierre-Antoine <http://champin.net/> is a W3C <https://www.w3.org/> fellow
from Inria <https://www.inria.fr/>, acting in W3C as Principal Data
Strategist. Before that, he was involved in many Linked Data and Semantic
Web related working groups (including RDF 1.1
<https://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/>, Linked Data Platform
<https://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/> and JSON-LD
<https://www.w3.org/2018/json-ld-wg/>). He has been working with RDF and
other Semantic Web technologies for as long as he can remember.

Pierre-Antoine received an engineering degree from INSA Lyon
<https://www.insa-lyon.fr/> in 1997 and a PhD in Computer Science from
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 <https://www.univ-lyon1.fr/> in 2002. He
is currently based in Lyon, France.

Salomé Durand, Computer Science undergraduate

Salomé is a third-year Computer Science undergraduate student (BUT) in
France. She contributed to the SpOTy project during a three-month
internship with Pierre-Antoine Champin, working on a Solid-based Web
application at the intersection of linguistics and knowledge engineering.

Alice Vittrant, Professor of Linguistics at Université Lumière Lyon 2 /
CNRS-DDL research centre

After completing her dissertation and research on Tibeto-Burmese languages,
particularly Burmese, Alice expanded her research focus to include other
languages of the region (Southeast Asia) and language contact phenomena.
Her main research topics are the expression of spatial concepts, motion and
nominal classification systems, using a typological-functional approach
(investigating linguistic universals and the limits of global linguistic
diversity).

Karl Seifen, research and teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille University
and Laboratoire Parole et Language (France)

Karl’s research in semantic typology focuses on the encoding of motion
throughout the world's languages. He also currently works on the
description of Chiang Mai Shan, a Shan contact variety of Northern Thailand.

Thomas Francart, senior knowledge graph consultant
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfrancart/?locale=en>

Thomas founded the company Sparna <https://www.sparna.fr/en/>, builds
open-source software with semantic web technologies such as Sparnatural
<https://sparnatural.eu/>, SHACL Play <https://shacl-play.sparna.fr/play/>
and SKOS Play <https://skos-play.sparna.fr/play/>, and works for large
public national and international institutions like the European
Parliament, the WTO, the Office of Publications of the EU, the French
National Archives, of the French e-Health agency.


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