[VoCamp Discuss] Welcome, and Introductions

[Catherine Dolbear]

Just to introduce myself before the VoCamp - I'm Cathy, a research
scientist at Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency in Britain. My
interests are in knowledge modelling (OWL-DL ontologies I've worked on
are at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology) and linking ontologies to
relational databases, particularly spatial databases & I'm involved in
the W3C incubator group on RDB2RDF on that subject. Our team has also
produced an RDF dataset on administrative geography for Britain, and I'm
interested in how to design links to other geospatially-related RDF data
- making sure that what we say is what we mean, in different contexts of
use.

Oh, and I did my doctorate in Oxford, so I know lots of nice pubs just
in case we have any time away from hacking :-)

Cathy


Dr Cathy Dolbear
Senior Research Scientist, Ordnance Survey Research 
C530, Romsey Road, SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom, SO16 4GU 
Phone: +44 (0) 23 80792868 | Fax: +44 (0) 23 80305072 
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.vocamp.org] On Behalf Of Tom Heath
Sent: 14 August 2008 12:48
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Subject: [VoCamp Discuss] Welcome, and Introductions

Hi all,

Thanks for signing up to the VoCamp Discuss list, and welcome :) We'll
use this list for sending out info about upcoming VoCamps, spreading the
word about what has (not) worked at each event and might usefully be
changed/repeated at future events, and hopefully all use it to discuss
our interests/plans for vocab development in general.

Remember, just send mail to discuss at lists.vocamp.org to post to the
list.

I imagine that we don't all know each other personally, so figured it
would be good to have some quick introductions. Here goes...

I'm Tom, a researcher in the Platform Division at Talis in the UK (just
as the sig says). I was previously at KMi, The Open University where I
was doing my PhD in the area of trust and recommendation in social
networks, with a Semantic Web/Linked Data flavour. I built Revyu.com,
think the Linking Open Data project rocks, look after linkeddata.org on
behalf of the community and generally care about the Semantic Web being
a major success. This latter issue was the driving force behind kicking
off the VoCamp effort with Richard C, so I'm really excited about the
first event coming up in Oxford and keeping fingers crossed that
there'll be many more in the future.

While I'm here, a big thanks to David Shotton for making many of the
arrangements so far, and to Jun Zhao who'll be our local host for
VoCampOxford2008.

So, looking forward to hearing other people's intros, and to meeting
many of you in Oxford in roughly 6 weeks :)

Cheers,

Tom.


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Tom Heath
Researcher
Platform Team
Talis Information Ltd
T: 0870 400 5000
W: http://www.talis.com/platform
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