Formal name: Dr. I. Herman
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Email: Ivan.Herman@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4163
Room: M372
Homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ivan/
Research groups: Distributed and Interactive Systems
Research
My principal work is related to the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web's goal is to extend the current Web towards an environment where not only documents but also all kinds of Data can be published, integrated, and used for various applications. To achieve this large scale data integration, this "Web of Data", such diverse fields have to be called upon as database technologies, mathematical logic, knowledge representation, programming APIs, or user interfaces. Also, in order to achieve a really widespread adoption, the standardization of the relevant technologies is absolutely necessary.
As a member of the Word Wide Web Consortium team, and in my role of Semantic Web Activity Lead, I coordinate all the Semantic Web related standardization activities related to the Semantic Web. This requires a general overview of the field as a whole, and I am instrumental in paving the future evolution of this technology. Additionally, I work on particular technologies within the area, eg, the logical foundation of Semantic Web (RDF), its adaptation and usage in hypertext technologies like HTML (RDFa), or on the ways to bind relational database technologies to RDF.
Career
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member DIS - Distributed and interactive systems |
| 2010 - 2013 | Scientific staff member SEN5 - Distributed and Interactive Systems |
| 1997 - 2009 | Scientific staff member INS0 - Standardization and Knowledge Transfer |
| 1988 - 1996 | Scientific staff member IS - Intelligent systems |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2012 | Organizer Lyon, France - International World Wide Web Conference - [WWW] |
| 2012 | Member advisory board Semantic Technology Conference - [SemTech] |
| 2011 | Member advisory board Semantic Technology Conference - [SemTech] |
| 2011 - 2012 | Member organizing committee Boston, MA, USA - International Semantic Web Conference - [ISWC] |
| 2010 | Organizer Stanford, CA, USA - W3C Workshop — RDF Next Steps - [rdfws] |
| 2007 - | Member Semantic Web Science Association |
| 2006 - | Member W3C - [W3C] - International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) |
Selected Publications
| T. Clark, A. de Waard, I. Herman, E. Hovy. The Future of Research Communication (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 11331). Dagstuhl Reports 1, 29–52, 2011. |
| B. Adida, M. Birbeck, I. Herman. Semantic annotation and retrieval: Web of hypertext - RDFa and microformats. Semantic Web Handbook, 2010. |
| B. Adrian, H. Jörn, I. Herman, M. Sintek, A. Dengel. Epiphany : Adaptable RDFa generation linking the web of documents to the web of data. Knowledge Engineering and Knowledfge Management by the Masses, 2010. |
| I. Herman. OWLRL - RDFS and OWL 2 RL generator service. 2008. |
| V. Kashyap, K.-H. Cheung, D. Doherty, M. Samwald, M.S. Marshall, J. Luciano, S. Stephens, I. Herman, B. Hookway. Semantic web and beyond computing for human experience. Ontology-Based Data Integration For Biomedical Research, Semantic Web And Beyond Computing for Human Experience 6, 2008. |
| I. Herman, M.S. Marshall, et al. An ontology-based approach for data integration - an application in biomedical research. Semantic Web, Semantic Web And Beyond Computing for Human Experience 6, 97–122, 2008. |
| D. Berrueta, E.J. Labra, I. Herman. XSLT+SPARQL : Scripting the semantic web with SPARQL embedded into XSLT stylesheets. , Tenerife, Spain, 2008. |
| I. Herman. pyRdfa - RDFa distiller and parser. 2007. |
| A. Ruttenberg, T. Clark, W. Bug, M. Samwald, O. Bodenreider, D. Doherty, H. Chen, K. Forsberg, Y. Gao, V. Kashyap, J. Kinoshita, J. Luciano, M.S. Marshall, C. Ogbuji, J. Rees, S. Stephens, E. Wu, D. Zaccagninni, T. Hongsermeier, E. Neumann, I. Herman, K.-H. Cheung. Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web. BMC Bioinformatics 8, 1–16, 2007. |
