SWAD-Europe Partners
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SWAD-Europe is an EU-funded project, part of the Information Society Technologies (IST-7)
programme. The project is designed to support W3C's
Semantic Web Activity through research, demonstrators and outreach
efforts conducted by the five project partners. The project began in May 2002
and will run for 30 months. Project coordination is shared between ILRT
(admin and project management) and W3C/ERCIM (content and overall
direction).
Dan Brickley (W3C/ILRT),
SWAD-Europe project director
Kate Sharp (ILRT), SWAD-Europe project
manager
The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the
World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that
promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is hosted by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science
[MIT/LCS] in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique [ERCIM] in Europe; and the Keio University
Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan. Many of the more than sixty researchers and
engineers that make up the W3C Team work at these host locations.
ERCIM
W3C's European presence is hosted by ERCIM in France.
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster
collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with
European industry. Leading research institutes from sixteen European countries are members of
ERCIM.
Key Personnel
(Full profiles of the entire W3C
Team, including the
non-European members of the Semantic Web Activity, are available from the
Consortium's Web site. The individuals named here work directly on
SWAD-Europe, working closely with the entire W3C Team, and the Semantic Web
team in particular. Within W3C, the project will be managed as part of W3C's
larger Semantic Web Advanced Development Activity. Eric Miller (Semantic Web
Activity Lead) and Ralph Swick (W3C SWAD Lead) will share responsibility with
the SWAD-Europe Project Director (Dan Brickley) for the integration of
SWAD-Europe's work into the wider W3C Activity.)
- Dr Bert Bos
- Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a
protoyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to
develop browser software and support for humanities scholars, before
joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is now
working on stylesheets, XML and internationalisation
- Dan Brickley - Project Director
- Dan is a member of the W3C team working primarily in the Semantic Web
Activity. From 1995 to 2001 Dan worked at ILRT, joining the W3C team as
a Visiting Fellow in 1999 to contribute to the Metadata Activity. At
ILRT Dan established one of the first research groups dedicated to the
implementation and deployment of RDF and Semantic Web technology and
led ILRT's technical work in several Semantic Web projects. Dan is
editor of the RDF Schema Specification, chair of the RDF Interest
Group, and co-chair of the RDF Core WG. He is currently responsible for
European Semantic Web developments within W3C at ERCIM.
- Dr Max Froumentin
- Max joined W3C at INRIA in July 2000. Prior to that, he completed a
PhD in computer graphics in 1996 at University of Lille, France, and
has worked for three years as a research assistant at University of
Bath, UK. His interests are 2D and 3D graphics, styling and typography.
His work at W3C has been primarily in the areas of XML styling (XSL and
XSLT) and Mathematics
- Charles McCathieNevile
- Before joining W3C in November 1998, Charles had been working for
Sunrise at RMIT on a variety of things including Web Accessibility,
internationalisation and metada and teaching people how to do publish
for the Web. At W3C, Charles is working on Web Accessibility, focussing
on guidelines, protocol review, and outreach as well as on the Semantic
Web.
The Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the
University of Bristol is an internationally recognised centre of excellence
in the development, use and application of learning and research
technologies. Institute projects have national and international impact and
value, attracting funding from, for example, the UK Higher Education Funding
Councils, the Economic and Social Research Council and the European
Commission, as well as professional associations and support from local
schools and businesses.
Key personnel
- Dave Beckett
- Dave is a technical researcher who has been developing, researching
and deploying Internet research discovery systems and metadata since
1993. He is a long-time member of the Dublin Core Initiative and the
editor of the first DCMES in RDF/XML document. Dave has been working
with RDF since 1998 and deployed several services with it and the
Dublin Core. Dave joined ILRT in June 2000 and has been working on
integrating RDF, web crawling and human-cataloguing of the web,and
developed the Redland RDF system. Dave participates is a member of the
W3C RDF Core Working Group and co-edited the first two W3C Working
Drafts produced by that group. He has also given invited presentations
at international workshops and conferences on RDF, Dublin Core and the
Semantic Web.
- Jan Grant
- Jan is a senior technical researcher for the Educator Access to
Services in the Electronic Landscape (EASEL IST-1999-10051) project
which involves creating adaptive learning content for web-based
delivery using the Learning Object Metadata (LOM) model. Jan researches
and develops RDF-based systems including modelling queries,
cross-schema interoperability, high-level RDF APIs, modelling trust and
on exposing legacy data in various formats (primarily RDBMS) as RDF.
Jan participates in RDF standardisation as a member of the W3C RDF Core
Working Group.
- Dr Libby Miller
- Libby is a senior technical researcher currently working on Semantic
Web technologies, specifically on the design and implementation of RDF
query languages (e.g. SquishQL). She also
leads the W3C's RDF calendaring
taskforce. Libby has three years' experience working with RDF and
XML, working within the DESIRE II
(RE4004) and Harmony
projects. She is a member of the W3C WebONT workng group, and is ILRT Semantic Web
Coordinator.
- Nikki Rogers
- Nikki Rogers is a technical researcher working on the Social Science
Information Gateway (SOSIG)
project with experience in digital library and information gateway
services for image description and discovery, distributed query and
retrieval and content aggregations mechanisms using RDF and Semantic
Web technologies.
- Kate Sharp - Project Manager
- Kate Sharp is a project manager at ILRT. As well as managing this
project she is current the manager for Biz/ed, an Internet service for
students, teachers and lecturers in Business and Economics. She has
just finished managing the Virtual Training Suite for Further
Education.
The Central Laboratory to the Research Councils (CCLRC) is a UK government
research and development laboratory located at three sites in the UK, of
which the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is the largest
(http://www.clrc.ac.uk/). CCLRC employs 1800 staff, of which 1200 are located
at RAL. CCLRC has produced several successful spin-off companies to exploit
its research products including Vector Fields Ltd, Bookham Technology Ltd and
Qudos Technology Ltd.
The Business and Information Technology Department employs about 130
staff, supporting, researching and developing IT, including considerable
experience in EU projects. ITD within CCLRC/RAL acts as the UK office for W3C
the World Wide Web Consortium.
Key personnel
- Dr Brian Matthews
- Dr Brian Matthews joined RAL in 1986, after completing a BSc in
Mathematics at the University of Bristol. In 1988 he completed an MSc
in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology at Imperial
College, London, and in 1996 a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Glasgow. Brian Matthews has been working within the
Information Technology Department of CCLRC on research and development
projects in advanced information technology, including formal systems
modelling and structured data and documentation. He was RAL technical
leader and acting project manager on the EC project TORUS, which
included work on distributing engineering design data across the web,
integrating engineering data with structured documentation within
formal process models. Recently, he has worked with the W3C within the
W3C-LA project on emerging web standards including XML, XSL and RDF,
and their application to online glossaries.
- Dr. Michael Wilson
- Dr Michael Wilson is the manager of the W3C UK Office, hosted by
RAL/CCLRC.
The Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is a leading global manufacturer of
computing, Internet and Intranet solutions, services, communications products
and measurement solutions, all of which are recognised for excellence in
quality and support.
HP has been operating in Europe since 1959 with the opening of its first
manufacturing facility outside Palo Alto, California, at Böblingen near
Stuttgart, Germany. From the outset, HP aimed to be a European citizen and
have a balanced presence. HP Laboratories is Hewlett-Packard's central
research organisation and its innovation engine. Its dual missions are to
help HP remain successful in current businesses while creating new business
opportunities through technology innovation. Hewlett-Packard European
Laboratories were established in Bristol, England in 1984, and currently
employ around 150 researchers, with research projects focussed on Information
Infrastructure, Personal Appliances, Communications and Platforms for
E-Business.
Key Personnel
- Ian Dickinson
- Ian is active in the area of software agents, particularly concerned
with personal agents and user-agent interaction. He is interested in
the application of semantic web technologies to the representation of
user data and is author of jena's DAML API.
- Martin Merry
- Martin is a Project Manager at HP. He is the manager of this project
within HP.
- Dave Reynolds
- Dave is interested in the use of semantic web technologies to link
decentralized information systems together both with each other and
with people. He also the developer and maintainer of the jena RDB
backend store.
- Andy Seaborne
- Andy is interested in application architectures and design for
semantic web applications. As part of this, he has developed the RDQL
sub-system for the Jena RDF framework and also built an RDF server,
Joseki, which provides remote access to RDF data. He is currently
developing an RDF NetAPI to extend the remote access to include
web-style collaborative applications.
Stilo Technology Ltd is a wholly-owned division of Stilo International
plc, the first specialist XML company to be listed on the Alternative
Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. In addition to Stilo
Technology Ltd, Stilo International plc wholly owns Omnimark Technologies
Corporation in Ottawa, Canada, and holds a majority shareholding in eidon
GmbH in Nuremburg, Germany. Group companies develop and market content
engineering technologies which enable enterprises more readily to automate
the integration, creation, management and re-purposing of large quantities of
data using XML. With offices now in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, France
and distributors in Australia and Japan, Stilo companies operate in some of
the world's leading markets and provide global customers with local training,
sales, consultancy and supporting services.
Key Personnel
- Stephen Buswell
- After reading mathematics at Oxford, Stephen Buswell has worked in IT
in the UK, Europe and North America at organisations including Logica,
European Payment Systems Services and, as an independent consultant,
the Polish Ministry of Finance. Applications included
telecommunications, finance and control software for life sciences
experiments on board Spacelab. Stephen co-founded Stilo in 1992, and
has since specialised in markup languages, information architecture and
web technologies. Stephen is a member of the W3C Math Working Group and
a principal writer of the MathML Recommendation for mathematics on the
web. He worked on the ESPRIT OpenMath project, and is a member of the
ESPRIT OpenMath Thematic Network. Stephen is a member of the W3C
Advisory Committee, and Chief Technology Officer at Stilo
Technology
- Nick James
- Nick has worked as a software engineer and project leader for twelve
years. He specialises in data management and database software, and has
in depth knowledge of database systems. He has worked as an engineer
producing a sophisticated object oriented database, and has produced
advanced software for the GIS industry. Nick has experience in a wide
range of industrial areas including finance and space, usually working
with large data management problems. He is currently working an
ontology-based system for knowledge management and complex data
transformation.
This document last updated $Date: 2003/06/11 12:22:39 $ by Charles McCN