Dan Brickley
Brief Work Bio
Wherein I talk about myself in the 3rd person...Dan Brickley is a researcher, advocate and developer of Semantic Web technologies. He currently combines commercial work (through his own tiny company Semantic Web Vapourware Ltd., aka SpyPixel, and at Asemantics S.R.L.) with ongoing involvement in Web standards as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. Dan served for six years as a member of the W3C Technical Staff, and now brings over twelve years' experience of knowledge sharing technologies to his work on practical Semantic Web deployment.
Dan founded the Bristol University ILRT Semantic Web group in 1997, exploring RDF-based knowledge engineering issues from a digital library, Social Science and elearning perspective. Dan was a PI on the HARMONY multimedia metadata project, and played a leading role in IST-funded research at ILRT including early work on RDF quality labelling, thesaurus, query and rules in the DESIRE project. Dan was Technical Director of the MedCertain (EU Safer Internet) project, applying W3C RDF technology to problems of quality and trust in consumer-facing health/medical Web content.
I've an Oct 2006 CV available. I'm not currently on the job market, but am always interested in project-based / freelance work and collaborations.
Contact details
It's almost always easiest to contact me by email. Unless travelling I usually read each mailbox daily at least.
- Email: danbri@danbri.org (main mailbox); daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk (older ILRT mailbox; being phased out); danbrickley@gmail.com (good for first contact to avoid spam filters)
- I'm retiring danbri@w3.org but it should work for a while...
- BEWARE MY SPAM FILTERS! Sorry, but to stay sane I (sometime) use white-list based filtering. If we've not corresponded before (or if your address has changed), there's a risk your mail will end up in my 'unknown senders' folder, mixed in with some spam emails. I check it periodically but sometimes miss things. For first-time contacts, please use my Gmail address: that is danbrickley --at-- gmail.com. Thanks.
- Phone: email me for my mobile no., though email preferred
What I do, what I did...
I started a publication and talks page; I may even update and improve it.
What do I do? Web stuff. Currently main work is for Joost. Until 2005-12-31 I was working on the Technical Staff of the W3C (see my W3C page). I was also a visiting fellow at ILRT, University of Bristol, where I worked for several years on a number of research projects. These are generally explored various applications, technologies and issues related to XML/RDF, metadata, resource discovery and suchlike.
As a side-project, I'm responsible with Libby Miller for the existence of FOAF.
My FOAF
file is available.
Nearby in the Web...
- People of W3C entry and contact page
- Some older photos
- previous homepage ( include Nov 1998 homepage-in-RDF, updated and visualised version)
- What the Semantic Web knows about me: my self-description in XML/RDF (digital signature assurance that this info arrives intact). An experimental dump from my who-signed-whose-key GPG database, represented as a graphical web-o-trust (snapshot; not updated) I also have a partial bibliography file available, mostly as test data.
- RDFWeb, FOAF etc...
- Semantic Web and Me personal scrapbook and wishlist
- SW groups: dc-architecture and webteam, RDF IG, RSS-dev, DAML ad hoc committee, RDF At a Glance
- Peer-to-Peer chapter with Rael Dornfest: online version (all in one page); entry in ORA catalogue; Amazon reviews; Barnes & Noble reviews; (inaccurately) slashdotted.
- This was funny (in various senses of the word): some cheesebag company published an RDF book allegedly by me, consisting of a bad printout of the W3C RDF specs. Don't buy it, review it. Needless to say I had nothing to do with this publication, and found out about it by accident via Amazon.
Links
Here follow some random links to stuff I've either worked on, am working on etc...
- a stupid cartoon I made, trying out someone's cute site that lets you make stupid cartoons. (related fun, collective dream comic diary: Slow Wave)
- Some metadata and resource discovery work at ILRT.
- My 'readable articles about ILRT' page. This is an attempt to list some articles that better describe what we do here and why it's an interesting place to work...
- Social Science Research Grapevine
- Resource Description Framework
- Bristol Biomedical Image Archive
- NetQuest project
- Harmony (a JISC/NSF/DSTC digital libraries project)
- The DESIRE project
- ROADS
