[iks-community] Introducing myself

[John Pereira]

Hi
Reto

Thank you for the introduction and looking forward to your demo in  
Rome next month.

Best Regards
-- 
John Pereira
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft
Information Society Research
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Austria

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On 19,Oct 2009, at 9:02 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür wrote:

> 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
>
>
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