Welcome Andy Szymon
On 4 February 2012 12:42, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/02/12 22:19, lewis john mcgibbney wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> The Any23 team is very pleased to announce that Andy Seaborne has been >> VOTE'd in to join the Any23 PPMC and as a Committer! >> >> We are very happy to add to the Any23 community and look forward to >> working towards our first incubating release with Andy on board. >> >> Please feel free to say a bit about yourself Andy if you wish... > > > I'm still fairly new to Apache - I'm a committer on Apache podling Jena and > I'm also the ASF representative on the SPARQL and RDF working groups. > > As I work for a small company (Epimorphics Ltd - we do linked data > consultancy, training and solutions) which is not a member of W3C, I am on > these working groups through Apache [*] so I'm there to represent us all. > On SPARQL-WG, I'm one of the editors of the query spec. > > What might be relevant here is that RDF-WG is looking at formalizing named > graphs. Opinions range from just codify existing practice around quads, to > spec'ing a formal relationship between graph URI and the graph triples. > This includes syntax - NQuads and TriG - as well as formally doing Turtle > and N-Triples. > > It would be really good to hear from anyone with opinions on this. > > SPARQL is now going through the finalization of specs - several > implementations already have released the updated query language and the new > update language, Sesame included. > > In Jena, we've done the necessary steps as a podling so graduation is the > next step. I've helped with the admin side in Jena. As we had an existing > codebase with contributions, we had software grants from HP and others to > sort out which took a while but that's all done now. > > In terms of code, I've been involved with the SPARQL implementation but also > in some new fast parsers. A bit too much looking into Java I/O and finding > out what's fast and what's slow. > > >> Oh and welcome on board :0) > > > Thanks - good to be here. > > Andy > > [*] any Apache committers can do this if they don't work for a W3C member. > In W3C-speak members are organsiations and companies, not individuals as at > Apache. ASF is a member of W3C. > >> >> Thank you >> >> Lewis >> >
