Ivan Herman

My Work at W3C | Contact information | Short CV | Upcoming trips | Public presentations

My Work at W3C

I am Semantic Web Activity Lead; that is my main work at W3C. I am member of IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee) (the committee coordinating the yearly WWW conference series), serving as a liaison for W3C, and of SWSA (Semantic Web Science Association), the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series.

As part of my work, I also participate in lots of outreach activities, and I regularly make presentations, tutorials, etc. You can consult my list of presentations for further details.

Contact information

Email:

ivan@w3.org
(sha1sum: 5ac8032d5f6012aa1775ea2f63e1676bafd5e80b)

Postal address:

C/o Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI)
Science Park 123, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands (see map).

Phone numbers:

phone: +31-20-5924163
mobile phone: +31-641044153
fax: +31-20-5924312

PGP/GPG:

My GnuPGP key and signature is available on-line.

FOAF:

You can either extract a short FOAF information from this page, of consult my more complete, public FOAF file.

Misc:

I am often on freenode, (acc. name IvanHerman; primarily on the #swig channel).
I am (of course…) present on a number of online accounts and services, like: facebook (acc. name ivan.herman), LinkedIn (acc. number 2352277), Dopplr (acc. name IvanHerman), TripIt (acc. name ivan_herman), Twitter (acc. name ivan_herman), Flickr (acc. ivan_herman).
My URI (as a real person): http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf#me

Short CV

I graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where I worked for 6 years (and turned into a computer scientist…). I left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry in Munich, Germany, I joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where I have a tenure position since 1988. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. I joined the W3C Team as Head of W3C Offices in January 2001 while maintaining my position at CWI. I served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when I was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position, which is now my principal work at W3C.

Before joining W3C I worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but I spend most of my research years in computer graphics and information visualization. I also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. My separate “professional” home page contains a list of my publications, my public presentations, and details of the various projects I participated in the past. There is also a dblp entry for my publication generated automatically (although I am not sure it is complete…). (B.t.w., based on my publications, my Erdős number is ≤4…)

In my previous life (i.e., before joining W3C…) I was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and I was vice-chair of the Association between 2000 and 2002. I was the co-chair of the 9^th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000; since then, I have also been member of IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series. Since autumn 2007 I am also member of SWSA (Semantic Web Science Association), the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series.

I have also developed some software (in Python) that might be of interest. An example is an SPARQL (RDF Query Language) API implementation on the top the RDFLib package. This package has recently been added to the latest release of RDFLib with a proper SPARQL language parser. This work was done Chimezie Ogbuji. I have also developed (and maintain) a RDFa Distiller software, ie, a Python implementation of the RDFa syntax, as well as a small package to interface SPARQL queries from Python.

A more detailed CV is also available online. Also, see my separate page or my personal blog if you are curious about more private things, including some of my photos that I put on the Web…

Upcoming Trips

References to my public presentations

I have a number of slide sets “in progress”, which I use for finalized, public presentations. You are welcome to consult those. The list below refers to the presentations I have given or will give at various events.

The last 6 months:

Upcoming:

For a complete list of presentations over the past few years see, for example, the relevant page of my “professional” CV or the same data in RDF.