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 Roberto Breitman, Solid Community Manager 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.
Alice Vittrant, Professor of Linguistics at Université Lumière Lyon 2 / CNRS-DDL research center
After completing her dissertation and research on Tibeto-Burmese languages, particularly Burmese, Alice expanded her research focus to include other languages of the region (Southeast Asia) and language contact phenomena. Her main research topics are the expression of spatial concepts, motion and nominal classification systems, using a typological-functional approach (investigating linguistic universals and the limits of global linguistic diversity).
Karl Seifen, research and teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille University and Laboratoire Parole et Language (France)
Karl’s research in semantic typology focuses on the encoding of motion throughout the world's languages. He also currently works on the description of Chiang Mai Shan, a Shan contact variety of Northern Thailand.
Thomas Francart, senior knowledge graph consultant
Thomas founded the company Sparna, builds open-source softwares with semantic web technologies such as Sparnatural, SHACL Play and SKOS Play, and works for large public national and international institutions like the European Parliament, the WTO, the Office of Publications of the EU, the French National Archives, of the French e-Health agency.