- From: Michel Biezunski <mb@infoloom.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:24:14 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
- Cc: <srn@coolheads.com>
My name is Michel Biezunski. I am interested to join the RDF activity because I have been involved in the creation of the Topic maps standards since the beginning. I started to work on this issue together with Steve Newcomb in the Davenport Group, then in the CApH group. I proposed to ISO to make Topic Maps a standard, and was at the origin of the creation of the XTM activity to create an XML version of Topic maps. I work in a company called InfoLoom which is developing solutions for improving navigation within information resources. I am willing to work on the merging of the standards, or on a new standard that would take advantage of both. Therefore, I would like to attend the next RDF-Interest group in Boston. ========================================== Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom Tel +33 1 44 59 84 29 Cell +33 6 03 99 25 29 Email: mb@infoloom.com Web: www.infoloom.com ========================================== ******************************************************** My name is Steven R. Newcomb. Like Michel Biezunski, I was at the beginning of the topic map story. My primary interests are information management and global knowledge interchange, and I've been working in these and related fields for 23 years. I'm one of four editors of the ISO HyTime standard. Like Michel, I've had some experience with developing standards, and with developing the consensus needed to develop standards. Also like Michel, I am interested in being involved in any significant work that is responsive to the lessons of RDF, Topic Maps, etc. Therefore, I would like to attend the next RDF-Interest group in Boston. Michel and I have worked together for a long time. Along with Martin Bryan, we were co-editors of the ISO Topic Maps standard. More recently we were the founding chairs/editors of the XML Topic Maps (XTM) standardization effort (TopicMaps.Org). Most recently of all, we both stepped down from that position in favor of new leadership (Steve Pepper and Graham Moore, with Eric Freese as their appointed acting chair). Although we are still active participants in the XTM initiative, the fact that we are no longer chairs/editors of XTM has released our time, and our preferred way to allocate that time is to the RDF effort. Let me also explain that Michel and I are not joined at the hip, nor do we think in the same way. Far from it. We have chosen to seek funding for our involvement in this effort jointly, because over the last eight years we have found that when we work together, our combined ability to generate benefit is greater than the sum of our abilities when we work separately. We are content that our work on the topic maps paradigm, while certainly not done, speaks for itself. But more to the point, we have learned some things along the way that, when the future of RDF is charted, may be helpful. -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant srn@coolheads.com voice: +1 972 359 8160 fax: +1 972 359 0270 405 Flagler Court Allen, Texas 75013-2821 USA
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