This month we are delighted to welcome Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C Principal Data Strategist, and Salomé Durand, Computer Science Undergraduate, as they present SpOTy. The session will be chaired by Jesse Wright, Solid lead at the ODI, and there’ll be plenty of opportunities to ask questions.
The SpOTy project is aimed at the cross fertilisation between the fields of linguistics and knowledge engineering. It was first developed as a Web application leveraging RDF to help researchers in linguistics organise and analyse their data. In particular, Sparnatural proved a very efficient way for them to easily create complex queries.
In the course of the project, it was rewritten as a Solid application, to provide users with finer grained control over when and how they share their research data. One challenge of this migration was to port the Sparnatural feature.
Speakers
Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C Principal Data Strategist
Pierre-Antoine is a W3C fellow from Inria, acting in W3C as Principal Data Strategist. Before that, he has been involved in many Linked Data and Semantic Web related working groups (including RDF 1.1, Linked Data Platform and JSON-LD). He has been working with RDF and other Semantic Web technologies for as long as he can remember.
Pierre-Antoine received an engineering degree from INSA Lyon in 1997 and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in 2002. He is currently based in Lyon, France.
Salomé Durand, Computer Science undergraduate
Salomé is a third-year Computer Science undergraduate student (BUT) in France. She contributed to the SpOTy project during a three-month internship with Pierre-Antoine Champin, working on a Solid-based Web application at the intersection of linguistics and knowledge engineering.
Chair: Jesse Wright, Solid Lead, the ODI
Jesse is a passionate advocate for a Web that empowers individuals by giving them control over their own data. With a commitment to open-source and community-driven technology, Jesse has contributed significantly to the development and deployment of Solid.Jesse’s work on Solid spans several years, encompassing both volunteer and professional contributions to the project.
He has developed and maintained a variety of libraries essential to the Semantic Web and Solid ecosystems, including eye-js, shaclcjs, N3.js, LDflex, and Comunica. Professionally, Jesse’s industry experience includes deploying Solid Pods for Indigenous health use cases at the Software Innovation Institute, as well as building foundational Solid infrastructure at Inrupt.As an academic, Jesse is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford’s EWADA group, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. His research revolves around designing architectures that enable decentralized agents to autonomously negotiate and make decisions, thereby establishing a logical framework for Solid. Through his academic work, Jesse has contributed to numerous W3C standards.