[VoCamp Discuss] Introduction

[Fabien Gandon]

Ooops!

I just realized I did not introduce myself… shame on me.

My name is Fabien Gandon [0] and I am a researcher in Informatics / 
Computer Science in the EDELWEISS [1] research team of INRIA 
Sophia-Antipolis [2], France. I graduated as an engineer with a master 
degree in applied mathematics in 1998 and obtained an M.Phil. in image 
processing and knowledge based systems the same year. I defended a Ph.D 
in computer science in 2002 at the crossroad of distributed artificial 
intelligence and information systems for knowledge management, studying 
ontology-based formalisms and multi-agents architectures to materialize 
and manage organizational memories as corporate semantic webs [3]. I 
then did a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University where I was the leader 
of the myCampus project focusing on semantic web formalisms and services 
to allow context-awareness and to enforce privacy in mobile accesses to 
online services [4]. As a full-time researcher I am now working in the 
field of semantic web formalisms and architectures to assist online 
communities of interest or practice in their interactions and in the 
management of their information. In this field, I was and still am 
involved in several projects [5] including the SweetWiki engine mixing 
wiki and semantic web approaches [6]. Finally, INRIA is a member of W3C 
where I contributed to standards like GRDDL and RDFa.

One of my hobbies is also to maintain a number of “Nutshell 
presentations” about the semantic web:
http://www.slideshare.net/fabien_gandon/slideshows

Going through the activities of my team and the logs of the IRC I 
participate to, I saw several requests for ontologies to represent:
- Bookmarking
- Companies / Management / hierarchy / consortiums / HR information
- Tracks and Trails of web resources
- Social networks and their analysis
- Folksonomies (e.g. SCOT + SKOS)
- Communities (e.g. FOAF + SIOC)
- Forms and associated services
- Quality, certainty, trust
- IM, profile, presence, status,
- IRC logs
- Intelligence, Watch, Monitoring, Notification

Concerning the publication of vocabulary, schema and other profiles we 
currently rely on a namespace server dedicated to this:
http://ns.inria.fr/
But we are also interested in identifying other options to setup and 
maintain such services.

Cheers,

References:
[0] Homepage http://www-sop.inria.fr/edelweiss/people/Fabien.Gandon/
[1] Edelweiss research team http://www-sop.inria.fr/edelweiss/
[2] INRIA Sophia-Antipolis http://www-sop.inria.fr/
[3] Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management: 
ontologies and multi-agent systems for a corporate semantic web
http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/Fabien.Gandon/research/PhD2002/
[4] myCampus http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sadeh/mycampus.htm
[5] Projects at Edelweiss 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/teams/edelweiss/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=Projects
[6] SweetWiki http://argentera.inria.fr/sweetwiki/data/Main/MainHome.jsp

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Fabien - http://ns.inria.fr/fabien.gandon/