[iks-community] Introducing myself

[Reto Bachmann-Gmür]

Dear IKS Community,

Some of you already met me at the IKS requirement meeting in Salzburg,
I'm looking forward to meeting you again and more of you next month in Rome.

For those I didn't already met I'm quickly introducing myself here.

I'm working with trialox [1] a startup founded last year at the
University of Zurich. We're working on open source software that makes
it easy to develop semantic web enabled applications. Our system is
based on OSGi technologies and support various RDF stores as backend.
The principal supported languages are Java and Scala. As we are near the
end of a major Sprint, I'll be posting more information on this software
foundation very soon.

Basing on this foundation we're also building a Web Content Management
System leveraging semantic web technologies especially for the benefit
of not-for-profit organizations. We are working together with the WWF
[2] to build a system that allows better access to their vast and
distributed content, both with their public website as well as the
internal information infrastructure.

All our products are open source and we're looking to build a community
around the open source projects, as well as business partners we could
help implementing semantic solutions for their customers.

So that's what I've been working on for a bit more than a year now.
Before I've been working in England for Talis and for HP Laboratories.
At HP Labs I was working with the Jena team and implemented a system for
versioning as well as tracking provenance of RDF Graphs.

My passion (or is it addiction?) for the semantic web dates back to
2002. I started implementing the annotea protocol as a decentralized
exchange system and continued the idea of decentralized, trust and
relevance based information exchange with the knobot open source project.

Cheers,
reto


1. http://trialox.org/
2. http://www.panda.org/




-- 
Reto Bachmann-Gmür
trialox.org
Tel: +41445005015