Profile for chair nominees

Sean Bechhofer
Sean Bechhofer is a Lecturer in the Information Management Group of the University of Manchester. His research interests cover tools and infrastructure to support the use of knowledge representation languages, in particular web standards such as OWL and SKOS.

He has developed applications, editors, parsers, APIs and interfaces to support the use of semantic technologies, publishing numerous articles in journals, conferences and books. He has experience of W3C process, having been a participant in the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) WebOnt Ontology Language Working Group, providing implementations of OWL and authoring documents. Sean was also a participant in the W3C’s Semantic Web Deployment Group, and editor of the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) Reference. He is involved in work in Manchester via the Wf4Ever EU STREP on the definition of aggregation structures to support scientific publication and preservation of workflows, and has published papers outlining notions of Research Objects.

Dr Robert Sanderson
http://public.lanl.gov/rsanderson/

Dr Robert Sanderson is an information scientist in the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory and previously a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on the areas of scholarly communication, especially with regards to digital humanities and large scale data mining. He was won international awards for his research, including the 2010 Digital Preservation Award and both the Vannevar Bush Best Paper award at JCDL2011 and Best Poster Award at JCDL2012. Between 2009 and 2011, he was the UIUC GSLIS Honorary Research Fellow for his interdisciplinary work in digital humanities. Dr Sanderson has been co-PI for national level projects, such as the Open Annotation Collaboration in the US and FORESITE in the UK, named Investigator on EU funded projects in the FP7 and eContentPlus streams, and co-chair of the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. He is an editor of several international specifications including, most recently, the W3C Open Annotation Data Model, IETF Memento Internet Draft, and NISO Resource Synchronization specification.

Jun Zhao
Jun Zhao is a Project Lead at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Her current research interests are provenance, trust of data, Semantic Web applications for integrating biological data resources, and provenance-based information quality assessment. She has been the provenance lead in the UK data.gov.uk project and currently she is the Oxford lead of the EU Wf4Ever project, providing cutting edge models and technologies to support the reproducibility of scientific workflows. She currently leads and coordinates several collaboration efforts with publishers to test case outcomes from the Wf4Ever project for enhancing scholarly publication practices. She is an active member of the W3C Provenance Working Group and the Health Care Life Science Interest Group. She has been leading organizer and invited speaker of many national and international workshops.