Juan Sequeda (primary contact)
Juan Sequeda is a Ph.D student at the University of Texas at Austin and has been an invited researcher at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. His research focuses on enabling the integration of relational databases to the Web of Linked Data. He was also an invited expert on the W3C RDB2RDF incubator group. He also works on the Morphster project, which supports morphologically based phylogenetic studies through semantic web technologies. In conjunction with Olaf Hartig, Juan works on
the SQUIN project: querying the web of data. He is now consulting for a local music search startup, Turn2Live.com, which is soon starting to consume and publish Linked Data.
Olaf is a Ph.D. student with the Database and Information Systems Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on query processing in the Web of Linked Data. His aim is to develop concepts that allow to query this Web of Linked Data as if it is a giant global database. As project maintainer and lead developer he is implementing these concepts in the free software projects "Semantic Web Client Library" and the "SQUIN query interface." He presented the approach to consume Linked Data as realized in the Semantic Web Client Library during the tutorial on publishing Linked Data at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference. In addition to the development of tools that enable applications to consume Linked Data, Olaf also has extensive experience in realizing such Linked Data based applications itself. Recently, his "Database Researchers Map", a Linked Data based Web application, won the Semantic Scripting Challenge 2009. During his work as a teaching assistant at Humboldt-Universität Olaf gives tutorials and seminars and he supervises students who work on their diploma, master, or semester thesis.
Patrick Sinclair is a software engineer at the Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC, where he has been involved in the BBC Music and BBC Programmes Linked Data initiatives including the Programmes Ontology. He was formerly a research fellow investigating the use of Semantic Web technology in the Cultural Heritage domain at the University of Southampton.
Jamie is co-author of the O'Reilly book "Programming the Semantic Web." His work involves Data Gardening and Community Building on Freebase, a large scale, and collaborative semantic database. His interest in graph data grew while managing enterprise software projects, which used Dynamic Object patterns in his role as CTO and VP Engineering at Determine Software (now a part of Selectica). He was the founder of one of San Francisco's first ISP's and has a Ph.D. from Harvard University.