- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Hi all, Just a quick intro note to say how pleased I am to have the RDF Core WG and W3C's Semantic Web Activity finally underway, and how I'm looking forward to working with you all on getting the core RDF specs cleaned up, tested and finalised. (bit of background....) I've been involved with the W3C RDF effort since meeting Ralph Swick and Eric Miller in 1997, and as an implementor I've had a love-hate relationship with RDF ever since. There is a simple and very appealing elegance to RDF, sometimes obscured by various subtle and tricky issues that face implementors trying to deploy real-world RDF/XML apps. We now face the challenging task of figuring out which of those implementation headaches we can solve, which will be addressed by other groups and specifications, and which simply 'come with the territory'. The RDF Core WG's charter was carefully drafted to address some of the tradeoffs we'll be facing. I believe we'll find running code and concrete test-cases enormously useful in this task, and encourage all WG members to always try to couch our technical discussions in terms of test cases. I hope that the work of this group, as it evolves, can be usefully connected to the implementation work of others from the RDF Interest Group. My intended role, co-chairing this WG with Brian, is in large part as a bridge to the RDF Interest Group and Semantic Web developer community. I'm hoping we can pick off some quick early wins, essentially errata for RDF M+S, and make a lot of Web developers lives easier in the short term. I know from working with RDF at ILRT and at W3C that it is a really useful technology. It's about time we made that obvious to anyone who encounters it... Oh, a bit about me. I'm lucky enough (fool enough...) to be working as part of _two_ pretty cool teams involved with XML/RDF and the Semantic Web. I mostly work and live in Bristol (UK) where I'm employed at University of Bristol, and work with others at ILRT on various RDF-related & digital library projects. If you've come across Libby, Jan, Dave's or various other ILRT folks work you'll know why this has been great fun. Since 1999 I've also been working part of my week on the W3C team, and spending a fair amount of time at W3C's MIT site in Boston and working virtually as a W3C team member. Fun too :) I'm about to jump on a plane to Kong Kong (WWW10) so that's about it for now. If I'm online and working I can often be found on the RDF Interest Group IRC channel, http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/#irc so feel free to pop in there if you want to chat about any aspects of RDFCore WG, RDF IG etc. cheers, Dan RDF Core Working Group co-chair RDF Interest Group chair RDF Schema co-editor -- ILRT/W3C mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/ http://ilrt.org/people/danbri/
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