DERI

During my 5 week stay in the US, I was based at the Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing where I worked on the Drupal based Science Collaboration Framework (SCF) project with Tim Clark, Sudeshna Das and Benjamin Melançon. I had the chance to meet Tim last year when he visited DERI and presented the SCF project. Our goal was to align the efforts which were put into SCF with the efforts of the Drupal community in terms of RDF, and see what requirements are emerging from a project such as SCF and contribute them back to the Drupal community. Tim and Benjamin had arranged for me to present the latest RDF module developments at the semantic web interest group gatherings in Cambridge, Mass and New York. Many more popped up as I was there. They are detailed below.

New York for 2 days

Feb 26th: presentation at the meetup.com NYC semantic web user group organized by Marco Neumann. This was the description of the presentation:

This week we had Dan Brickley visiting DERI. Dan co-started the FOAF project in 2000, and is also involved in the SIOC project which is mainly based here in DERI. That was the occasion to have several sessions of brainstorming about various aspects of SIOC including dataportability (John presented his slides), the recent change in the Dublin Core ontology, URIs and best practices for publishing SIOC data, and finally some domain modifications (some of them came from the Drupal RDF Schema I've been working on). This lead to a few changes on the ontology. A digest of these sessions is being written.

While he was in Galway, Dan expressed an interest in Drupal, which is already used on sioc-project.org. We had a few opportunities to meet and I demoed him the flexibility of this great tool. Laura joined us for a bit, and I thought it could be useful to share this, so below is the rundown of what we did in a few hours.

I started at DERI on the 1st of August where I am studying towards a masters degree in Semantic web.

I will be working with Axel Polleres for the inContext project. Funded by the European Union, this project aims at reasoning about context:

inContext will develop a novel scientific approach focused on a new blend of human collaboration and service-oriented systems that explores two basic research strands:
1. efficient and effective support for human interactions and collaboration in various teams through dynamically aggregated software services;
2. use of human-to-human or human-to-service interactions in applying intelligent mining and learning algorithms that can detect interaction patterns for pro-active service aggregation.