Hi Devs, I'm Dileepa Jayakody a research student keen on distributed computing domain, particularly interested in social networking, social identity, semantic web concepts. I have started studying for a M.Sc by Research at University of Moratuwa and recently joined LK Domain Registry as a research assistant. Currently I'm assigned to the 'Digital Identity' research group, and now doing a literature survey on Digital Identity and identity verification techniques. My objective is to develop a methodology to verify the identity of a person/organization by analyzing profiles, social activity over different social networking streams, and other verified data-streams. I'm looking at technologies like RDFa, JSON-LD, FOAF, nosql databases and other semantic tools which could be helpful to build a suitable solution. While researching through the web, I came across Apache Stanbol project and I'm highly interested in learning about Stanbol for my research project. I'm also fascinated by the GSOC idea on using Stanbol for federated social web [2]. It would be great to get ideas on how to integrate Stanbol to implement a system to verify digital identity of a person/organization over social networking streams.
To tell a bit more about myself, prior to joining LK Domain Registry as a research assistant, I was a software engineer for 1.5 years at WSO2 (Pvt) Ltd [1], the opensource SOA company where I was a member of the carbon team which is the kernel of the WSO2 Product stack which are OSGi based products. I have a good development background on java, web services, OSGi and maven. I also have a good understanding about the opensource development process and culture as WSO2 follows the apache model for software development. I have also participated in OSGi Community Event 2012 co-located with EclipseCon 2012 by giving a tech.talk on "Building A Modular Server Platform with OSGi" [3]. Currently I'm going through Stanbol documentation at [4] and building Stanbol from trunk source. Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks and regards, Dileepa [1] http://www.wso2.com [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL-1009 [3] http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2012/sessions/building-server-platform-osgi [4] http://stanbol.apache.org/docs/trunk/
