Presentation round

[Darren Chamberlain]

On 2/16/07, Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil at kjernsmo.net> wrote:
> Now we're 14 members on the Perl/RDF list, which is a good start, and
> supposedly a good number to start to get to know each other. So I
> figured we could do a little presentation round.

I'll go next.  I'm a professional Perl programmer (for the New York
Times Regional Newspaper Group) but an RDF amateur.  I've been
interested in RDF since for many years, but haven't had a chance to do
much with it.  I've been lurking on several semweb mailing lists for
the last few years (including this one, apparently), and thus have
absorbed quite a bit of RDF and semweb knowledge.  I'm mostly
interested in RDF as a data model -- I do a lot of work with
databases, on a variety of platforms (I'm one of the original
SQL::Translator developers), so RDF's simplicity and
straightforwardness is *very* appealing (I'm also excited about
SPARQL).  Of course, since I work for the Newspaper Of Record, I'm
generally interested in metadata and its various representations and
uses as well.

I'd like to see Perl have first class RDF tools.  Too many interesting
semweb projects are implemented in Java, and Java is not an option for
me (either at work or in my personal projects), so I cannot use these
tools.  I'd definitely like to see more developers using Perl to build
RDF tools and systems.

-- 
(darren)