Sarven Capadisli’s Curriculum Vitae

Summary

I work to advance the web to improve society and enhance quality of life, with a strong interest in understanding its social effects.

Experience

Title

Technical Architecture Group Elected Member

Organiser

W3C TAG

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2025-02–2027-01

Description

Guiding the architecture of the web, resolving technical issues, reviewing standards, and ensuring decisions reflect ethical and societal considerations.
Title

Community Group Chair

Organiser

W3C Solid Community Group

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2019-12–2023-12

Description

Facilitating consensus-building among Group members for the development of Solid Technical Reports, including creating charters and convening the group, coordinating with the W3C Team and other W3C Groups, and maintaining Group's process and organisation. Ensuring the group's work fits into Web Architecture.
Title

Web Standards Architect

Organiser

Inrupt

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2019-07–2023-04

Description

Editing and authoring Solid Technical Reports; W3C Advisory Committee representative (2020–2022); advising the engineering and executive teams on technical specifications.
Title

dokieli Founder

Organiser

dokieli

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2015-11–present

Description

As the founder and lead developer of dokieli (source), I have developed it as a decentralised article authoring, annotations, and social interactions tool enabling semantic publishing, executable and interactive documents — a socially-aware read-write application. dokieli is an open source project using open web standards.
Title

270a.info Creator

Organiser

270a.info

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2012-02–present

Description
Researching and developing linked (statistical) dataspaces and applications:
Title

linkedresearch.org Founder

Organiser

linkedresearch.org

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2012-02–present

Description

Proposed the Linked Research principles to the Semantic Web / Web Science community. Created linkedresearch.org to exemplify goals, e.g., decentralisation, self-storage, annotations, notifications, interactive articles.
Title

Systems Engineer

Organiser

Harvard Library

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2016-12–2018-05

Description

Serve in a systems engineer/strategist capacity for the LD4L project’s pilot Linked Data publication and consumption strategy. Assess project needs (systems design; URI Templates; annotation and notification exchange; best practices etc.) and propose/implement appropriate solutions.
Title

Visiting Student

Organiser

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location

Cambridge, MA, US

Date

2015-10–2016-09

Description

Working to materialize parts of the (Semantic) Web vision; the Solid project, in the Decentralized Information Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Title

Scientific Assistant

Organiser

Bern University of Applied Sciences

Location

Bern, CH-BE, CH

Date

2012-09–2015-10

Description

Giving lectures on Linked Data in the Department of Economics, and supervision of Bachelor projects and thesis. Working on EU/CH projects in the E-Government-Institute.
Title

Linked Data Researcher

Organiser

Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Location

Galway City, GY, IE

Date

2010-10–2012-09

Description
Researching and developing technologies for Linked Dataspaces at the Linked Data Research Centre of Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Worked on Statistical Linked Dataspaces:
Title

User Experience Designer

Organiser

StatusNet, Inc.

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2008-11–2010-03

Description
Co-designed and architected StatusNet (on Wikipedia: StatusNet, formerly known as Laconica) platform's UI; desktop and mobile browsers, platform widgets, templating, and plugins. Used Apache, PHP, MySQL, HTML, RDF, CSS, JavaScript, Git, MediaWiki. Made product and identity decisions. Collaborated with the open developer community, worked with company clients, instructed graphic designers and other contributors to the project. Platform's flagship site:
- Identi.ca (Archived)
Title

User Experience Architect

Organiser

Transcontinental Media

Location

Montréal QC CA

Date

2007-02–2008-10

Description
Lead the integration team, set internal communication protocols, documentation and coding standards, and advised on information architecture and user interface guidelines for magazine sites:
Title

Information Architect

Organiser

Concordia University Web Communications

Location

Montréal QC CA

Date

2008-10–2009-01

Description
Client management for assigned sectors within the University. Documented project needs analysis and information architecture:
- Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Student Services
Title

User Interface Designer

Organiser

keiki

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2007-04–2007-10

Description

Designed keiki network's MediaWiki and Drupal UI. Derived an approach to brand keiki's new logo in collaboration with a graphic designer. Established a colour palette, typographical elements and wrote templates in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
Title

User Interface Designer

Organiser

wikiHow

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2007-02–2007-06

Description

Designed wikiHow's MediaWiki UI. Scope of work included; information architecture (IA), branding, selection of colour palettes, typographical testing and layout design.
Title

User Interface Designer

Organiser

certifi.ca

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2007-03–2007-04

Description

Created the UI design for an OpenID system using HTML/CSS. Selected the colour palettes and advised on logo and branding for the graphic artist.
Title

User Interface Designer

Organiser

EFnet

Location

Hybrid

Date

2007-02–2007-03

Description

Wrote the HTML and CSS of a screen design for the EFnet — The Original IRC Network.
Title

Research Consultant

Organiser

Concordia University Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2007-01–2007-02

Description

Researched interactive whiteboard technologies for literacy instruction software in classrooms. Outlined the applicable hardware and software technologies and helped establish timelines for future development.
Title

Java Integrator

Organiser

Nurun

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2006-04–2006-12

Description
Took on the Integrator role in the Java development team. Involved in planning and developing front-end components; used semantic markup, wrote SEO guidelines, and established an Integrator/UX Analysis documentation. Latest projects include integration of sites:
Title

Web Administrator / Developer

Organiser

Campbell Cohen Law Firm

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2005-05–2006-04

Description
Used standards-compliant code, including security, redundancy, designing and planning the system deployment of 5 sites on a FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP system setup. Creating reports, documentation, log analysis, as well as intra-net development was part of my routine task list.

Administration as above:
Title

User Experience Designer

Organiser

Brigitte Schuster

Location

Montréal, QC, CA

Date

2006-12–present

Description

Design and development.
Title

Developer

Organiser

Schangri La

Location

Ramsau STMK AT

Date

2004-07–2004-08

Description

Design and development.
Title

Research Assistant

Organiser

University of Windsor

Location

Windsor, ON, CA

Date

2003-07–2003-08

Description

Research responsibilities included reading journals and suggesting attainable alternative AI methods for Job Scheduling in Parallel Computing. Worked under the supervision of Dr. Angela Sodan.
Title

IRC Operator

Organiser

EFnet

Location

Hybrid

Date

2003-01–2008-12

Description

Provide technical support, channel moderation, and operation for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in a real-time chat network: IRC Efnet in #CSS, and #SEO channels.
Title

YMCA Youth Mentor

Organiser

YMCA

Location

Windsor, ON, CA

Date

2004-01–2004-04

Description

Youth Mentor, responsible for the after school program at YMCA, and Concord Elementary School for a group of 5-25 students at a time. My responsibilities were further extended with carrying out day camps for children between 5-12 ages.
Title

Gombos Family Youth Mentor

Organiser

Gombos Family

Location

Ramsau STMK AT

Date

2000-05–2004-09

Description

Youth Mentor for children ages 5-13, helped learn computer concepts to properly use search engines as well as supervising outdoor activities.

Presentations and Talks

Speaker

W3C TAG F2F, Paris, 2025

Paris, FR-IDF, FR

2025-03-03

Societal Impact Questionnaire – TAG F2F

Speaker

Solid Symposium, Leuven, 2024

Leuven, BE-VBR, BE

2024-05-02

Socially-aware Web

Speaker

Institute of Computer Science, University of St. Gallen, 2024

St. Gallen, CH-SG, CH

2024-02-15

Solid Standardisation Journey

Speaker

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2023

Berlin, BE, DE

2023-09-12

Inherently Social, Decentralised, and for Everyone

Speaker

MyData Conference 2023

Helsinki, FI

2023-05-31

Introduction: What is Solid, where do we stand today?

Speaker

Doctoral Colloquium, University of Bonn, 2020

Bonn, DE

2020-03-03

Linked Research on the Decentralised Web part of Ph.D. Computer Science

Speaker

VIVO Conference, 2019

Podgorica, ME

2019-09-06

Enabling a Socially-Aware Scholarly Ecosystem

Speaker

Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, 2019

Copenhagen, DK

2019-09-26

Third-Party Control Considered Harmful

Speaker

University of Latvia, 2018

Riga, LV

2018-10-23

Call for Linked Research

Speaker

Beilstein Open Science Symposium, 2018

Rüdesheim, HE, DE

2018-10-09

dokieli: A Decentralised Read-Write Web Application

Speaker

The Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship, 2018

Montréal, QC, CA

2018-10-12

Social Scholarly Web

Speaker

OpenConSwitzerland, 2018

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2018-09-21

Autonomous Scholarly Web

Speaker

Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar: Knowledge Graphs, 2018

Wadern, SL, DE

2018-09-11

Enabling Accessible Scholarly Knowledge Graphs

Speaker

SCTA, The Digital Future of Scholasticism, 2018

Basel, BS, CH

2018-06-29

Linked Data Notifications

Speaker

Developers Track, The Web Conference, 2018

Lyon, ARA, FR

2018-04-26

Linked Specifications, Test Suites, and Implementation Reports

Speaker

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2017

Hamburg, HH, DE

2017-12-04

Authoring, Annotations, and Notifications in a decentralised Web with Dokieli

Speaker

Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, 2017

Los Alamos, NM, US

2017-10-16

dokieli

Speaker

OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Geneva, GE, CH

2017-06-21

Making a case for decentralised scholarly communication

Speaker

ICWE Applications

Rome, LZ, IT

2017-06-06

Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli

Speaker

ESWC Research

Portorož, SI

2017-05-31

Linked Data Notifications

Speaker

Swiss National Science Foundation

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2017-05-17

dokieli

Speaker

What does it mean to be a researcher in 21st century Academia? Ghent University

Ghent, VLG, BE

2017-05-05

Call for Linked Research

Speaker

Seminar Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage

The Hague, NL-NH, NL

2017-05-01

Call for Linked Research

Speaker

Observatory for Knowledge Organisation Systems

Valletta, MT-60, MA

2017-02-03

dokieli: decentralised authoring, annotations and social notifications

Speaker

University of Fribourg, eXascale Infolab

Fribourg, FR, CH

2016-11-04

Call for Linked Research

Speaker

ISWC 2016 SemStats

Kobe, HG, JP

2016-10-18

Sparqlines: SPARQL to Sparkline

Speaker

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2015

Hamburg, HH, DE

2015-11-24

Call for Linked Research

Speaker

MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative

Cambridge, MA, US

2015-11-12

Linked Research

Speaker

Cambridge Semantic Web

Cambridge, MA, US

2015-10-13

Linked Research

Speaker

Swiss Statistics Meeting

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2015-08-24

Statistical Linked Dataspaces and Analysis

Speaker

ESWC 2015 Demos

Portorož, SI

2015-06-02

This ‘Paper’ is a Demo

Lecturer

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2015-04-01–2015-05-31

Lectures on Linked Data

Lecturer

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2014-04-01–2014-06-30

Lectures on Linked Data

Speaker

Linked Data Europe, European Data Forum

Athens, GR-I, GR

2014-03-31

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

Speaker

CEDAR minisymposium

Amsterdam, NL-NH, NL

2014-03-31

Linked Statistical Dataspaces and Analysis

Speaker

eHumanities research meeting

Amsterdam, NL-NH, NL

2014-03-27

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

Speaker

Confoo 2014

Montréal, QC, CA

2014-02-27

Statistical Linked Open Data and Analysis

Speaker

Confoo 2014

Montréal, QC, CA

2014-02-26

Linked Data: Publication and Consumption

Speaker

Séminaire Linked Data, Swiss Federal Archives

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2014-01-29

Statistical Linked Dataspaces and Analysis

Speaker

ISWC 2013 SemStats

Sydney, NSW, AU

2013-10-22

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

Lecturer

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Bern, CH-BE, CH

2013-04-01–2013-06-30

Lectures on Linked Data

Speaker

Confoo 2012

Montréal, QC, CA

2012-03-01

RDF and SPARQL: The Peanut Butter and Jam

Speaker

Confoo 2012

Montréal, QC, CA

2012-02-29

Linked Data Life Cycles

Speaker

Open Government Data Camp 2011

Warsaw, MV, PL

2011-10-20

DataGovIE : Irish government dataspace

Speaker

Confoo 2011

Montréal, QC, CA

2011-03-10

Linked Data: The New Black

Speaker

Confoo 2010

Montréal, QC, CA

2010-03-10

Mark, Query, and Visualise

Speaker

WordCamp Montréal 2009

Montréal, QC, CA

2009-07-12

Making StatusNet and WordPress work together

Speaker

W3Québec

Montréal, QC, CA

2009-04-20

microformats in identi.ca

Guest Lecturer

GLIS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies, McGill University

Montréal, QC, CA

2009-03-12

microformats: #towerofbabel #pareto #dataportability

Speaker

PHP Québec Conference 2009

Montréal, QC, CA

2009-03-05

Website data through the looking-glass

Speaker

PHP Québec monthly meeting

Montréal, QC, CA

2009-01-08

Interacting with microformats

Speaker

Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 02

Montréal, QC, CA

2008-08-14

Internal site SEO guidelines

Speaker

Nstein Innovation Leaders Summit 2008

Montréal, QC, CA

2008-05-15

Creating next generation Web sites

Speaker

Coder's Saturday

Montréal, QC, CA

2008-03-17

Microformats overview: how to help machines recognise common data formats in Web documents.

Speaker

Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 01

Montréal, QC, CA

2008-01-15

Introduction to microformats: what they are, why we need them and briefly how to use them.

Speaker

RoCoCoCamp 2007

Montréal, QC, CA

2007-04-19

User Interface talk on the current wikiHow design.

Occupations

Skills

Human Languages: Armenian; English; Turkish

Operating Systems: FreeBSD; Ubuntu; Microsoft Windows

Programming Languages: C; Java; Miranda; Scheme; SQL

Systems Analysis: Algorithm Design & Analysis; Data modeling; HTTP; Linked Data; Representational State Transfer; Technical Documentation; UML; W3C standards

Web Development: Apache; CSS; JavaScript; LDP; MySQL; PHP; RDF; SPARQL; HTML; XML; XSL; XSLT

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science

Dissertation (Linked Research on the Decentralised Web) to obtaining the doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn. See also.