Author: Stefan Decker

John Breslin is a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include social software, online communities, and the Semantic Web. He is founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, and he also co-founded Irish community site boards.ie Ltd. Stefan Decker is a professor at and director of DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include the Semantic Web, digital libraries, and the social semantic desktop. Stefan has a Ph D in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. His dissertation work was quoted as one of the inspirations for the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program, which spans the Semantic Web effort. Alexandre Passant is a post-doctoral researcher at DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests are Semantic Web and Social Software. Alexandre also feeds his own blog under www.apassant.net