Sarven Capadisli’s Curriculum Vitae
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- https://csarven.ca/cv
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- https://csarven.ca/#i
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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
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- Title
- Master's-level Lecturer
- Organiser
- University of St. Gallen SHSS
- Location
- St. Gallen, CH-SG, CH
- Date
- –
- Description
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Giving lectures on Master's-level course Technologien/Technology: The Socially Aware Web, offered as part of Contextual Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The block course provides a comprehensive exploration of technical and social aspects of Internet and web standardisation processes.
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- Title
- Community Group Chair
- Organiser
- W3C Solid Community Group
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- Web Standards Architect
- Organiser
- Inrupt
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –
- Description
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Editing and authoring Solid Technical Reports; W3C Advisory Committee representative (–); advising the engineering and executive teams on technical specifications.
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- Title
- dokieli Founder
- Organiser
- dokieli
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –present
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- 270a.info Creator
- Organiser
- 270a.info
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –present
- Description
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Researching and developing linked (statistical) dataspaces and applications:
- World Bank Linked Dataspace
- Transparency International Linked Dataspace
- European Central Bank Linked Dataspace
- International Monetary Fund Linked Dataspace
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Linked Dataspace
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Linked Dataspace
- Swiss Federal Statistics Office Linked Dataspace
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics Linked Dataspace
- Federal Reserve Board Linked Dataspace
- Bank for International Settlements Linked Dataspace
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Linked Dataspace
- Stats Analyses Linked Dataspace
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- Title
- linkedresearch.org Founder
- Organiser
- linkedresearch.org
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –present
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- Systems Engineer
- Organiser
- Harvard Library
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- Visiting Student
- Organiser
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- Date
- –
- Description
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Working to materialize parts of the (Semantic) Web vision; the Solid project, in the Decentralized Information Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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- Title
- Scientific Assistant
- Organiser
- Bern University of Applied Sciences
- Location
- Bern, CH-BE, CH
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- Linked Data Researcher
- Organiser
- Digital Enterprise Research Institute
- Location
- Galway City, GY, IE
- Date
- –
- Description
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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:
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- Title
- User Experience Designer
- Organiser
- StatusNet, Inc.
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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:
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- Title
- User Experience Architect
- Organiser
- Transcontinental Media
- Location
- Montréal QC CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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Lead the integration team, set internal communication protocols, documentation and coding standards, and advised on information architecture and user interface guidelines for magazine sites:
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- Title
- Information Architect
- Organiser
- Concordia University Web Communications
- Location
- Montréal QC CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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Client management for assigned sectors within the University. Documented project needs analysis and information architecture:
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- Title
- User Interface Designer
- Organiser
- keiki
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- User Interface Designer
- Organiser
- certifi.ca
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- User Interface Designer
- Organiser
- EFnet
- Location
- Hybrid
- Date
- –
- Description
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Wrote the HTML and CSS of a screen design for the EFnet — The Original IRC Network.
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- Title
- Research Consultant
- Organiser
- Concordia University Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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Researched interactive whiteboard technologies for literacy instruction software in classrooms. Outlined the applicable hardware and software technologies and helped establish timelines for future development.
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- Title
- Java Integrator
- Organiser
- Nurun
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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:
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- Title
- Web Administrator / Developer
- Organiser
- Campbell Cohen Law Firm
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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:
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- Title
- User Experience Designer
- Organiser
- Brigitte Schuster
- Location
- Montréal, QC, CA
- Date
- –present
- Description
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Design and development.
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- Title
- Developer
- Organiser
- Schangri La
- Location
- Ramsau STMK AT
- Date
- –
- Description
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Design and development.
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- Title
- Research Assistant
- Organiser
- University of Windsor
- Location
- Windsor, ON, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- YMCA Youth Mentor
- Organiser
- YMCA
- Location
- Windsor, ON, CA
- Date
- –
- Description
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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.
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- Title
- Gombos Family Youth Mentor
- Organiser
- Gombos Family
- Location
- Ramsau STMK AT
- Date
- –
- Description
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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
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W3C Solid Community Group, Solid Practitioners, 2025
Bern, CH-BE, CH
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Institute of Computer Science, University of St. Gallen, 2024
St. Gallen, CH-SG, CH
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Doctoral Colloquium, University of Bonn, 2020
Bonn, DE
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Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, 2019
Copenhagen, DK
Third-Party Control Considered Harmful
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Beilstein Open Science Symposium, 2018
Rüdesheim, HE, DE
dokieli: A Decentralised Read-Write Web Application
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Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar: Knowledge Graphs, 2018
Wadern, SL, DE
Enabling Accessible Scholarly Knowledge Graphs
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Developers Track, The Web Conference, 2018
Lyon, ARA, FR
Linked Specifications, Test Suites, and Implementation Reports
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Semantic Web in Libraries, 2017
Hamburg, HH, DE
Authoring, Annotations, and Notifications in a decentralised Web with Dokieli
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Making a case for decentralised scholarly communication
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ICWE Applications
Rome, LZ, IT
Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli
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Call for Linked Research
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Observatory for Knowledge Organisation Systems
Valletta, MT-60, MA
dokieli: decentralised authoring, annotations and social notifications
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Lecturer
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Lectures on Linked Data
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Lectures on Linked Data
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Séminaire Linked Data, Swiss Federal Archives
Bern, CH-BE, CH
Statistical Linked Dataspaces and Analysis
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Lecturer
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Lectures on Linked Data
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Guest Lecturer
GLIS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies, McGill University
Montréal, QC, CA
microformats: #towerofbabel #pareto #dataportability
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Coder's Saturday
Montréal, QC, CA
Microformats overview: how to help machines recognise common data formats in Web documents.
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Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 01
Montréal, QC, CA
Introduction to microformats: what they are, why we need them and briefly how to use them.
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Occupations
Skills
- Operating Systems
- FreeBSD
- Ubuntu
- Microsoft Windows
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Bonn
Bonn, NW, DE
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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.
M.App.Sc.
B.C.S. Honours [Computer Science]
B.A. General [Psychology]
University of Windsor
Windsor, ON, CA
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Technical and Community Contributions
- W3C Statement: Vision for W3C, 2025–present: Contributor
- W3C Technical Architecture Group, Self-Review Questionnaire: Societal Impact, 2025–present: Editor
- W3C Technical Architecture Group, Web User Agents, 2025–present: Editor
- W3C Council, 2025–present: Council Member
- W3C Technical Architecture Group, 2025–present: Elected Member
- W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, 2025–present: Invited Expert
- W3C RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax, 2024–present: Contributor
- W3C RDF & SPARQL Working Group, 2025–present: Invited Expert
- W3C Linked Web Storage Working Group, 2024–present: Invited Expert
- W3C Policy: Positive Work Environment at W3C: Code of Conduct, 2024–present: Contributor
- W3C Solid Community Group, Solid QA, 2023–present: Editor, Author
- W3C Solid Community Group, Solid Protocol, 2019–present: Editor, Author
- W3C Solid Community Group, Web Access Control, 2021–present: Editor, Author
- W3C Solid Community Group, Solid Notifications Protocol, 2021–present: Editor, Author
- W3C Solid Community Group, Solid QA, 2023–present: Editor, Author
- W3C Solid Community Group, 2019–2023: Chair
- Solid Project, 2019–present: Solid Team member, Code of Conduct Committee member
- ISWC SemStats, 2020: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- ISWC SemStats, 2019: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- ISWC SemStats, 2018: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- The Web Conference Researcher Centric Scholarly Communication, 2018: Chair
- WWW LDOW, 2018: Chair/OC, proceedings manager
- ISWC SemStats, 2017: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- W3C Semantic Statistics Community Group, 2013–present: Chair, 2017
- W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group, 2017–present: Member
- W3C Recommendation: Linked Data Notifications, 2016-2017: Editor
- ESWC Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication, 2017: Chair
- WWW LDOW, 2017: Chair/OC, proceedings manager
- WWW WOW, 2017: OC member
- ISWC SemStats, 2016: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- ISWC Resources, 2016: PC member
- WWW Developers Day, 2016: PC member
- W3C Working Group Note Embedding Web Annotations in HTML, 2017: Editor, Author
- W3C Web Annotation Working Group, 2015–2017: Invited Expert
- W3C Social Web Working Group, 2015–present: Invited Expert, Editor, Author
- CEUR-WS, 2015–present: Contributor
- School of Data:arts, 2015–present: Member
- schema.org, 2015–present: Contributor
- WISE Decentralized Social Networks, 2015: PC member
- ISWC SemStats, 2015: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- ESWC SePublica, 2015: Chair/OC member
- ESWC Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web, 2015: Reviewer
- ICWE Semantic Web applications, 2015: PC member
- ISWC Data Sets and Ontologies, 2015: PC member
- ESWC Human-Semantic Web Interaction Workshop, 2015: PC member
- DDI Alliance DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary, 2012–present: Co-author
- ISWC SemStats, 2014: Chair/OC member, proceedings manager
- ESWC Human-Semantic Web Interaction Workshop, 2014: PC member
- ESWC Semantic Publishing Challenge, 2014: PC member
- ISWC SemStats, 2013: Proceedings manager
- W3C WebID Incubator and Community Group, 2011–present: Contributor
- W3C The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary, 2011–2014: Contributor
- W3C Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data, 2011–2014: Contributor
- W3C Government Linked Data Working Group, 2011-2014: Member
- microformats, 2006–present: Contributor
- WHATWG, W3C HTML5, 2006–present: Contributor
Scholarly Articles
- Linked Research on the Decentralised Web, Capadisli, 2019
- Linked Specifications, Test Suites, and Implementation Reports, Capadisli, The Web Conference Developers Track, 2018
- Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli, Capadisli, Guy, Verborgh, Lange, Auer, Berners-Lee, ICWE Application, 2017
- Where is Web Science? From 404 to 200, Capadisli, WWW Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation, 2017
- Linked Data Notifications: a resource-centric communication protocol, Capadisli, Guy, Lange, Auer, Sambra, Berners-Lee, ESWC Linked Data, 2016
- Sparqlines: SPARQL to Sparkline, Capadisli, ISWC SemStats, 2016
- Building Decentralized Applications for the Social Web, Sambra, Guy, Capadisli, Greco, Berners-Lee, WWW Tutorials, 2016
- A Demonstration of the Solid Platform for Social Web Applications, Mansour, Sambra, Hawke, Zereba, Capadisli, Aboulnaga, Ghanem, Berners-Lee, WWW Demonstrations, 2016
- Linked Research: An Approach for Scholarly Communication, Capadisli, Guy, Lange, Auer, Greco, 2016
- dokieli: decentralised authoring, annotations and social notifications, Capadisli, Guy, Auer, Berners-Lee, 2016
- Cooling Down Web Science, Capadisli, 2015
- This ‘Paper’ is a Demo, Capadisli, Auer, Riedl, ESWC Demos, 2015
- Enabling Accessible Knowledge, Capadisli, Auer, Riedl, CeDEM, 2015
- Call for Linked Research, Capadisli, ISWC Developers Workshop, 2014
- Semantic Similarity and Correlation of Linked Statistical Data Analysis, Capadisli, Meroño-Peñuela, Auer, Riedl, ISWC SemStats, 2014
- Linked Statistical Data Analysis, Capadisli, Auer, Riedl, ISWC SemStats, 2013
- Linked Research, Capadisli, ESWC Workshop on Semantic Publishing, 2013
- Linked SDMX Data, Capadisli, Auer, Ngonga Ngomo, Semantic Web Journal, 2013
- Statistical Linked Dataspaces, Capadisli, Master’s thesis, National University of Ireland, 2012