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<h1>Sandro Hawke</h1>

<h3>Software Developer / Systems Architect<br/>Semantic Web &mdash; Web Standards </h3>

<p>
<a href="../../">W3C</a> &gt;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/">eGovernment Activity</a> Lead &gt;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Main_Page">IG</a> Staff Contact
<br/>
<a href="../../">W3C</a> &gt;
<a href="../../2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> &gt;
[<a href="../../2005/rules/wg/">RIF</a>,
<a href="../../2007/OWL/">OWL</a>,
<a href="../../2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page">SPARLQ</a>
] Staff Contact
<br/>
<a href="http://www.mit.edu/">MIT</a> &gt;
<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a> &gt;
<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group</a>
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<p><a href="mailto:sandro@w3.org">sandro@w3.org</a>
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<h2>Activities and Projects</h2>

<ul>

<li>
<p><a href="http://decentralyze.com" title="sandro hawke blog semantic web">Decentralyze &mdash; Programming the Data Cloud</a>, my occasional blog</p>
</li>

<li><p>2009.  Two invited talks: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/1105-ruleml">RIF: Bringing Order to Chaos</a> (RuleML 2009 Keynote), and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/1026-semrus/">Semantics for the Rest of us</a> (ISWC 2009 Workshop Keynote)</p></li>

<li><p>2009.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/demo">riftr</a> is a RIF translation engine.   Not currently working.   <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2009/rif/">source code</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>2005-2009. <a href="../../2005/rules/">RIF</a> (Rule Interchange Format).   I'm the staff contact for this Working Group.  Currently a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-overview/">W3C Candidate Recommendation</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>2007-2009.  <a href="../../2007/OWL/">OWL 2</a>.   I'm the primary staff contact for the OWL Working Group.   Now a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-overview/">W3C Recommendation</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>2009.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/CommonScribe">CommonScribe</a> is a tool I wrote to make scribing meeting easier, for my Working Groups.</p></li>

<li><p>2009.  revdoc is a tool I wrote to make publishing W3C Technical Reports easier.   In particular, it made it practical for OWL to publish 13 interlinked TRs at the same time.</p></li>

<li><p>2008.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/02/xtan">XTAN (XML Transform-As-Needed)</a> is the future of forward-compatibility and cheap interoperability, unless it's not.  Maybe an RDF version would be better.   <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2008/fallback/">source code</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>2007. <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/asn06">asn06</a> and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/asn07">asn07</a> were attempts to bridge the space between grammars (BNF, XML Schema) and ontologies (OWL), in service to RIF extensibility.   <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2007/asn/">source code</a>. </p></li>

<li><p>2005.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/">W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter.html">RIF Charter</a></p></li>

<li><p>2004.   Semwalker, a server-side linked-data browser.   <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/03/semwalker-talk">A retrospective talk given in 2006.</a>   <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2004/semwalker/">Source Code</a></p></li>

<li><p>2004.   <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/ontaria/">Ontaria</a>   A SemWalker installation intended to serve as W3C's central ontology directory.</p></li>

<li><p>2004.   <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc">N3/Cwm tutorial</a> (with TimBL and DanC</p></li>

<li><p>2003.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/08/surnia/">Surnia</a> was an OWL Full reasoner built using the naive approach of: throw it all at a first-order theorem prover.  It can be useful to help see the limits of that approach, but it was only a few weeks work.</p></li>

<li><p>2003.  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/">OWL</a> I stepped in as co-staff contact with Dan Connolly, on the Web Ontology Working Group.</p></li>

<li><p>2003.   URIs.    I worried a lot about <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/OverloadedUri">Overload URIs</a>.   Experimenting with writing in wiki in those days....   (use "info" to just look at the last version I wrote?)</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SlashRedirection">303 See Other</a> was my idea.  Imperfect solution to a hard problem.</li>
  <li><a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/GoodURIs">GoodURIs</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/DescriptiveNames">DescriptiveNames</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/web/">Useful Theories of URIs</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Jan/0315.html">How do you POST to a "document"?</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/rdf-identifiers">Disambiguating RDF
   Identifiers</a> (a proposal to RDF-Core)</li>
</ul></li>

<li><p>2002.  <a href="../../2002/08/LX">LX</a>, (Logic eXchange) a sort of pre-cursor to RIF, built into cwm.   See <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0910-rdf-reification/">Using Reification To Extend RDF.</a></p></li>

<li><p>2002.  Thinking about Semantic Web architecture.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="../../2002/03/semweb">How the Semantic Web Works</a></li>
<li><a href="../../2002/03/swamp">SWAMP</a>; maybe we should view all protocols in terms of the (RDF) knowledge exchanged?</li>
<li><a href="../../2002/11/bees-and-ants/paper.html">The Bees and the Ants</a></li>
<li><a href="../../2002/11/webarch4/v3.html">a proposal on Web Architecture</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><p>2002. <a href="../../2002/05/cowork">CoWork</a> ontology and tools</p></li>

<li><p>2001.  <a href="../../2001/06/blindfold">Blindfold</a>, a grammar-based system for translating among RDF serialization languages.   (I have some more recent work on this concept, in Python, somewhere.)</p></li>

<li><p>2001.   <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/blindfold/api">C++ SemWeb Library</a> (mixed in with blindfold), and <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/libSemWeb/perl/SemWeb/">Perl SemWeb Library</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>2001.   The <a href="http://www.taguri.org/">tag: URI Scheme</a> (<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4151.txt">RFC-4151</a>).  This was my first reaction to encountering HTTP URIs used in RDF &mdash; to say <em>don't!</em> &mdash; before I saw the utility of linked data.  Work on the RFC was essentially done in 2001, but it took four more years to get through the IESG.</p></li>

<li><p>2001.   <a href="writings">Various Writing</a>.</p></li>


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<h2>Some Personal Connections</h2>

<ul>

<li>

<!-- forgive me, she's my sister!   -->
<p>
My sister,
<a href="http://www.aliaterra.com/fun.html">Maya Wallach</a>, runs a
<a class="quiet" title="ColdFusion web site"
href="http://www.flyingmountain.com/">web site programming</a> and
consulting company called <a
href="http://www.flyingmountain.com/">Flying Mountain</a>.  She also
sells <a title="Phiten necklaces"
href="http://www.acesportinggear.com">Phiten necklaces</a> and <a title="Phiten bracelets"
href="http://www.tornadosportswear.com">Phiten bracelets</a> and runs
the <a title="Tracks and Tales Nature School"
href="http://www.tracksandtalesnatureschool.com">Tracks &amp; Tales
Nature School</a> in Duvall, Washington.
</p>
</li>

<li>
<p>My father, <a href="http://geography.ou.edu/people/bwallach.html">Bret Wallach</a> is a professor of <a href="http://www.greatmirror.com" class="quiet" title="Travel Photos">human and cultural geography</a>.  He has an amazing <a href="http://www.greatmirror.com" class="quiet" title="Travel Photos">collection of pictures</a> on the web called <a href="http://www.greatmirror.com" title="Travel Photos">The Great Mirror</a>.   I helped build earlier versions of the site, but this version was done by Maya.</p>
</li>

<li>
<p>My aunt, <a href="http://www.danasalisbury.com" title="Dana Salisbury">Dana Salisbury</a> is a <a href="http://www.danasalisbury.com" class="quiet" title="Dana Salisbury">choreographer</a> and <a href="http://www.danasalisbury.com" class="quiet" title="Dana Salisbury">multidisciplinary artist</a>.</p>
</li>

<li>
<p>My grandmother, <a href="http://www.wallachs.org/anne">Anne Wallach</a>, 1912-2005.  (Born
<a href="http://www.wallachs.org/anne" class="quiet">Anne Kael</a>,
known as <a href="http://www.wallachs.org/anne"
class="quiet">Anna</a> in my part of the family.)</p>
</li>

<li>
<p><a href="http://sierrablack.com">Sierra Black</a>
(<a href="http://childwild.com">childwild</a>)
works as a <a
href="http://sierrablack.com" class="quiet">writer (freelance
journalism, novels, short fiction, poetry)</a> and in various areas of
earth-based spirituality (she's a Witch) -- <a
href="http://sierrablack.com" class="quiet">teaching Tarot</a>, <a
href="http://sierrablack.com" class="quiet">reading Tarot in
person</a> and remotely (yes, there's a business in <a
href="http://sierrablack.com" class="quiet">online Tarot
Readings</a>!), being priestess at rituals, teaching <a
href="http://sierrablack.com" class="quiet">ritual magic</a>, etc.
</p>
</li>

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<p>$Date: 2011/01/24 01:26:34 $</p>
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