[VoCamp Discuss] Welcome, and Introductions

[Richard Cyganiak]

Hi all,

Thanks Tom for kicking off the list!

My short intro: I'm Richard, a research assistant at DERI Galway. I'm  
involved in numerous efforts to make publishing Semantic Web data  
easier (e.g. D2RQ, Neologism, Semantic Sitemaps, the “Cool URIs for  
the Semantic Web” tutorial). I think that the availability of high- 
quality domain vocabularies is important for making the Semantic Web  
work. At the Oxford VoCamp, I have three goals:

1. To make Linked Data work better, we need some additional  
vocabularies, e.g. for paging large resource descriptions. I hope to  
make some progress on these at VoCamp with the input from other  
participants.

2. I want to gather requirements (and bug reports?) for Neologism, an  
RDFS editor/publishing tool that we are creating at DERI.

3. I want to explore the general process of finding, creating,  
advertising, and maintaining vocabularies for the Semantic Web. Should  
we have something like the Microformats process for creating  
vocabularies? Do we need a new central directory where people can find  
high-quality domain vocabularies? What forms of documentation are most  
useful?

So, I'm really looking forward to meeting you all in Oxford, it's  
going to be two intense -- and hopefully very productive --days!

Cheers,
Richard


On 14 Aug 2008, at 12:48, Tom Heath wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> Tom Heath
> Researcher
> Platform Team
> Talis Information Ltd
> T: 0870 400 5000
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