[okfn-discuss] Introducing myself

Tue Aug 21 10:39:44 UTC 2007

Dear Sören,

Good to hear from you and thanks for introducing yourself and I look to 
forward to your comments in the future. Just to let everyone else know, 
Soren has just joined the OKF's Advisory Board:

   http://www.okfn.org/advisory_board/

Regards,

Rufus

Sören Auer wrote:
> 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/
> 
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