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		   <h1 style="clear:both" property="foaf:name v:name">Ivan Herman</h1>
		   <img class="me" rel="foaf:depiction v:photo" src="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/Ivan.Herman.png" alt="My photo" /><br />

            <p class="center"><a href="#Meh2">My Work at W3C</a>   |
			<a href="#a1">Contact information</a> | <a href="#bio">Short CV</a> |
			<a href="#trips">Upcoming trips</a> | <a href="#pres">Public presentations</a> </p>

			<h2><a id="Meh2">My Work at <span property="v:affiliation">W3C</span></a></h2>

			<p>I am <a rel="foaf:currentProject" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/#activity">Semantic Web Activity</a> Lead;
			that is my main work at <a rel="foaf:workplaceHomepage" href="http://www.w3.org">
			<span property="dc:title" rev="foaf:workInfoHomepage" resource="http://www.w3.org/Data#W3C">W3C</span></a>.
			I am member of <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.iw3c2.org">
			<abbr title="International World Wide Web Conference Committee">IW3C2</abbr>
			(<span property="dc:title">International World Wide Web Conference Committee</span>)
			</a> (the committee coordinating the yearly WWW conference series), serving as a liaison for W3C,
			and of
		   <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.iswsa.org/"><abbr title="Semantic Web Science Association">SWSA</abbr>
		   (<span property="dc:title">Semantic Web Science Association</span>)</a>,
		    the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series.
			</p>

			<p>As part of my work, I also participate in lots of outreach activities, and I regularly make
			presentations, tutorials, etc. You can consult my <a href="#pres">list of presentations</a> for further details.</p>

            <h2><a id="a1">Contact information</a></h2>

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				<dt>Email:</dt>
				<dd><a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org" rel="foaf:mbox">ivan@w3.org</a>
				<br/>
				(sha1sum: <span property="foaf:mbox_sha1sum">5ac8032d5f6012aa1775ea2f63e1676bafd5e80b</span>)

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				<dt>Postal address:</dt>
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					C/o <a href="http://www.cwi.nl">Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI)</a> <br />
				   <span property="v:street-address">Science Park 123, P.O. Box 94079</span>,
				   <span property="v:postal-code">1090 GB</span> <span property="v:locality">Amsterdam</span>,
				   <span property="v:country-name">The Netherlands</span> (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/p5masa">see map</a>).
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				<dt>Phone numbers:</dt>
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				   phone: <a rel="foaf:phone" href="tel:+31-20-5924163">+31-20-5924163</a><br />
				   mobile: <a rel="foaf:phone" href="tel:+31-641044153">+31-64-1044153</a> 
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				<dt>PGP/GPG:</dt>
				<dd>My <a rel="wot:pubkeyAddress" href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html">GnuPGP key and signature</a> is
				available on-line.</dd>
				<dt>FOAF:</dt>
				<dd>You can either extract a short
				<a href="Overview.rdf">FOAF information from this page</a>,
				of consult <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">my more complete, public FOAF file</a>.</dd>
				<dt>vCard</dt>
				<dd>A <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/HermanIvan.vcf">vCard</a> file, containing my contact data, is also available.</dd>
				<dt>Misc:</dt>
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					I am (of course…) present on a number of online accounts and services, like:
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							(acc. number <span property="foaf:accountName">2352277</span>),
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							(acc. name <span property="foaf:accountName">ivan_herman</span>),
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				My URI (as a real person): <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf#me">http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf#me</a>.
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			<h2><a id="bio">Short CV</a></h2>
			<img class="me" src="http://www.ivan-herman.net/Images/me2003.png" alt="Another picture at CWI" />
			<div property="bio:olb" datatype=""><p>I graduated as mathematician at the <a rel="foaf:schoolHomepage" href="http://www.elte.hu/"><span property="dc:title">Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest</span></a>, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (<a href="http://www.sztaki.hu"><abbr title="Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet" xml:lang="hu">SZTAKI</abbr></a>) 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 <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.cwi.nl">Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (<abbr title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" xml:lang="nl">CWI</abbr>)</a> in Amsterdam where I have a tenure position since 1988. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the <a href="http://www.leidenuniv.nl/">University of Leiden</a>, in the Netherlands. I joined the <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a> Team as Head of <a rel="foaf:pastProject" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices"><span property="dc:title">W3C Offices</span></a> in January 2001 while maintaining my position at <abbr title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" xml:lang="nl">CWI</abbr>. I served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when I was asked to take the <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/" resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/#activity"> <span rel="rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Overview.rdf">Semantic Web Activity</span></a> Lead position, which is now my principal work at W3C.</p>

<p>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 <a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/">separate “professional” home page</a> contains a list of <a rel="foaf:publications" resource="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/publist.rdf" href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/Publ.html">my publications</a> (see also <a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ivan-herman/">my Mendeley account</a>), <a rel="foaf:publications" resource="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/W3CTalks.rdf" href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/Pres.html">my public presentations</a>, and details of the various projects I participated in the past. There is also a <a rel="owl:sameAs" href="http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/resource/authors/Ivan_Herman">dblp entry for my publication</a> generated automatically (although I am not sure it is complete…). (B.t.w., based on my publications, my <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Erdos_number">Erdős number</a> is ≤4…)</p>

<p>In my previous life (i.e., before joining W3C…) I was member of the Executive Committee of the <a rel="foaf:pastProject" href="http://www.eg.org"><span property="dc:title">Eurographics Association</span></a> for 15 years, and I was vice-chair of the Association between 2000 and 2002. I was the co-chair of the <a href="http://www9.org">9<sup>th</sup> World Wide Web Conference</a>, in Amsterdam, May 2000; since then, I have also been member of <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.iw3c2.org"><abbr title="International World Wide Web Conference Committee">IW3C2</abbr> (<span property="dc:title">International World Wide Web Conference Committee</span>)</a>, responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series. Since autumn 2007 I am also member of <a rel="foaf:workInfoHomepage" href="http://www.iswsa.org/"><abbr title="Semantic Web Science Association">SWSA</abbr> (<span property="dc:title">Semantic Web Science Association</span>)</a>, the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series.</p>

<p>I have also developed some software (in <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>) that might be of interest. An example is an <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2004/PythonLib-IH/Doc/sparqlDesc.html">SPARQL API</a>, a (partial) implementation on the top the <a href="http://rdflib.net/">RDFLib</a> package. This package has recently been added to RDFLib with a proper SPARQL language parser. This work was done Chimezie Ogbuji (Cleveland Clinic, USA), and is primarily maintained by the RDFLib community. I have also developed (and still maintain) a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/">RDFa Distiller</a> software, ie, a Python implementation of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax">RDFa syntax</a>, and a simple <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/Misc/2008/owlrl/">OWL 2 RL reasoner software</a>. Finally, I also developed a  <a href="http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/new-version-of-the-sparql-python-wrapper/">small package to interface SPARQL queries from Python</a>; this software has been <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sparql-wrapper/">moved to sourceforge</a>, and is effectively maintained by Sergio Fernández and Carlos Tejo Alonso (CTIC, Spain).</p></div>
			
			<p>A <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/CV.html" about="#bio" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">more detailed CV</a> is
			also available online. Also, see <a rel="foaf:homepage v:url" href="http://www.ivan-herman.net">my separate page</a> or my
			<a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://ivan-herman.name">personal blog</a> if you are curious about more private things, including some
			of <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/Photos/">my photos</a> that I put on the Web… </p>

			<h2><a id="pres">References to my public presentations</a></h2>
			<p>I have a number of <a href="CorePresentations/">slide sets “in progress”</a>, 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.</p>
			<h3>The last 6 months:</h3>

	        
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                    <a id='x2011-10'>October 2011</a>
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                                <span class='year'>2011</span>
                                <span class='mm-dd'>-10-26</span>
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                            <span class='paren'>(</span>
                            <span class='dd-mmm'>26 OCT</span>
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                                <cite about='http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/2011/Talks.rdf#X_2011-10-26-697' property='dc:title'>Semantic Web Death Match 2011: Industry vs. Academia vs. Standards</cite> (panel)</p>
                            <p class='source'>by <span rel='talk:presenter'><a href='http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/' id='X_2011-10-26-697'><span about='http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/' property='foaf:Name' typeof='foaf:Person'>Ivan Herman</span>
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                                    <a href='http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org' rel='ical:url'>
                                        <span about='[_:wHiGkxjl]' property='ical:description'>The 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)</span>
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                                <p property='vcard:locality' class='location'>Bonn, Germany</p>
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                            <p class='reltecharea'>Relevant technology area: <span resource='http://www.w3.org/standards/buckets#semanticweb' rel='talk:w3cTechArea'><a href='http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/' property='talk:bucketName' rel='rdfs:seeAlso'>Semantic Web</a>
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			<h3>Upcoming:</h3>
	        
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			<p>For a complete list of presentations over the past few years see, for example, the relevant
			<a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/Pres.html">page of my “professional” CV</a>
			or <a href="http://www.ivan-herman.net/professional/CV/W3CTalks.rdf">the same data in RDF</a>.</p>
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            <span property="dc:creator">Ivan Herman</span> (<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">ivan@w3.org</a>)<br />
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