[okfn-discuss] Introducing myself

Mon Aug 20 20:48:48 UTC 2007

Hi all,

already reading the list for a couple of weeks I now would like to use 
the chance to introduce myself:
I'm leading the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic 
Web (AKSW, http://aksw.org) at Universität Leipzig and collaborate with 
the database research group at University of Pennsylvania. My research 
interests are semantic technologies, collaboration on the Web and 
knowledge representation in particular with respect to Open Knowledge 
environments.
I'm founder of the open-source, adaptive knowledge engineering framework 
OntoWiki [1], founding member of the DBpedia project (http://dbpedia.org 
btw a very large source of open-knowledge) and chair of the first Social 
Semantic Web conference [2]. More information can also be found on my 
homepage at [3].
I like OKFs aim of promoting open-knowledge and will be happy to 
contribute to the work of the foundation with expertise about the 
Semantic Web - which from my point of view can be the (or a) base 
infrastructure for creating, representing and exchanging open-knowledge.

--Sören

[1] http://ontowiki.net
[2] http://aksw.org/cssw
[3] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer/