<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>Firstly, thanks to Tom for kicking all this off and to
David and Jun for helping with the organisation. It's certainly
something that is much needed and should be a fun venue to get some
cool collaborations started.<br>
<br>So, my introduction...<br><br>I'm Ian and I'm CTO at Talis, based
right in the centre of the UK. I've been involved in semweb research,
development and deployment for most of this decade. I have a strong
personal interest in seeing the Semantic Web succeed but this is also
core to Talis, so I have dual motives for working on the Semantic Web :)<br>
<br>My interest in vocamp falls into a couple of areas. <br><br>I'd like to discuss vocabulary persistence and management, especially for the very long term (50+ years). I have operated <a href="http://vocab.org/" target="_blank">http://vocab.org/</a>
as free schema/vocabulary hosting for about 4 years and I'd like to see
other similar sites become available. I'm also interested in strategies
for keeping vocabulary terms available after the original creator has
lost interest / gone AWOL / lost control of domain etc. At Talis we
have an experimental service called SchemaCache which might suggest a
way in which dead vocabularies can still be accessed - however it means
applications have to know that there are mirrors of vocabularies
available and where they are. <br>
<br>I have also been working on a way for a vocabulary to be created in
a communal / wiki fashion. An alpha version of this is available at <a href="http://open.vocab.org/" target="_blank">http://open.vocab.org/</a>
- it allows anyone to create and edit terms within a shared namespace.
Every change is logged like a wiki. Please go ahead and try this
application out - the data is dummy for now and there are lots of bugs
I'm sure. The code is available at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/openvocab/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/openvocab/</a> as is the issue tracker to report those bugs!<br>
<br>Finally, I have a long standing interest in genealogy and am
looking for collaborators for an evidence-based model of genealogical
research (or general historical research).<br><br>Look forward to seeing you all in Oxford!<br>
<br>Ian<br><br></div>