Introductions

Hi everyone,

I am Nicolas Delaforge from INRIA Sophia Antipolis (French National 
Institute for Computer Science and Control), working for the Edelweiss 
team for 1 year.

During my PhD I was involved in the french web archiving project in the 
National Institute for Audiovisual.
In this context, I proposed a documentation model for collected websites 
and I have developed an archive browser as well.

I am currently working as lead engineer on a semantic software for 
business intelligence ( ISICIL project, http://isicil.inria.fr/, english 
version coming soon ;-) ). This platform make an extensive use of RDF 
data and lightweight ontologies (SIOC, SKOS, FOAF). We are trying to 
connect data from corporate libraries with web 2.0 practices, 
folksonomies, social networks.

First, I am very glad to participate to this group and I hope my 
experience can be helpful.
My wish is to bring thesaurus and other formal vocabularies out of the 
walls of the library and to imagine new applications that use it as a 
reference point of view.

Cheers,
Nicolas