Tribal DDB has provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on behalf of Volkswagen UK on a system providing advanced contextual search. The system is based on the integration of HTML pages annotated with RDFa with internal product data, and uses a mix of public vocabularies and vocabularies developed for the automotive industry. A visual interface to SPARQL is used to provide advanced contextual search over the results.
About Ivan Herman
Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
