[VoCamp Discuss] Introduction

[Tom Heath]

Hi Fabien,

Great introduction, thanks! Looking forward to having you there in
Oxford the next few days. The presence/status topic is one really
close to my heart; the MeNow vocab goes some way towards this, and the
Jabber/XMPP spec is also useful in this direction, but there seems to
be huge gaps, especially in a world that now has
Facebook/Twitter/Dopplr and a million other exhibitionism services ;)
Let's talk more about that face to face.

Cheers,

Tom.


2008/9/22 Fabien Gandon <Fabien.Gandon at sophia.inria.fr>:
> 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
>
> --
> Fabien - http://ns.inria.fr/fabien.gandon/
>
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