Sarven Capadisli’s Curriculum Vitae

W3C Solid Community Group

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.

Inrupt

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

dokie.li

dokieli is a decentralised article authoring, annotations, and social interactions tool enabling semantic publishing, executable and interactive documents — a socially-aware read-write Linked Data application.

270a.info

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

linkedresearch.org

Proposed the Linked Research principles to the Semantic Web and Web Science communities. Evangelised the initiative and a path for academic conferences accepting native web formats as part of their article submissions. Created linkedresearch.org. Created the dokieli tool to exemplify some of the Linked Research goals e.g., decentralisation, self-storage, annotations, notifications, interactive articles.

Harvard Library

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Bern University of Applied Sciences

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.

Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Researching and developing technologies for Linked Dataspaces at the Linked Data Research Centre. Primarily in Statistical Linked Dataspaces:

• Central Statistics Office Ireland Linked Dataspace
• Eurostat Linked Dataspace
• World Bank

StatusNet, Inc.

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)

Transcontinental Media

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

• More Magazine
• Vita Magazine
• Les Éditions Transcontinental
• ELLE Magazine
• ELLE Québec Magazine
• Style at Home
• Canadian Gardening
• Canadian Home & Country
• Canadian Home Workshop
• Le Bel Âge
• Canadian Living
• Recipe Feast
• Recettes du Québec

Concordia University Web Communications

Client management for assigned sectors within the University. Documented project needs analysis and information architecture:

• Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• Student Services

kei.ki — The Free Parenting Guide

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.

wikiHow — The How to Manual That You Can Edit

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

Certifi.ca — Secure OpenID Provider

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.

EFnet — The Original IRC Network

Wrote the HTML and CSS of a screen design for the EFnet IRC network.

Concordia University Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance

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

Nurun

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:

• GORE-TEX® Fabrics
• WINDSTOPPER® Products
• GORE Work Wear
• Pleasant Holidays

Campbell Cohen Law Firm

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.

Relaunched using Mambo CMS on back-end. Content upgrade, high focus in SEO, integration of CRM (GoldMine) and business requirements with front-end component development.

Administration as above:

• Canada Work Visa
• CICNews
• Canadian Immigration Talk
• David Cohen Blog

Brigitte Schuster

Design and development.

Schangri La

Design and development.

University of Windsor

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.

EFnet

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.

YMCA

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.

Gombos Family

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

Solid Symposium, Leuven, 2024

Socially-aware Web

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

Solid Standardisation Journey

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2023

Inherently Social, Decentralised, and for Everyone

MyData Conference 2023

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

Doctoral Colloquium, University of Bonn, 2020

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

VIVO Conference, 2019

Enabling a Socially-Aware Scholarly Ecosystem

Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, 2019

Third-Party Control Considered Harmful

University of Latvia, 2018

Call for Linked Research

Beilstein Open Science Symposium, 2018

dokieli: A Decentralised Read-Write Web Application

The Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship, 2018

Social Scholarly Web

OpenConSwitzerland, 2018

Autonomous Scholarly Web

Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar: Knowledge Graphs, 2018

Enabling Accessible Scholarly Knowledge Graphs

SCTA, The Digital Future of Scholasticism, 2018

Linked Data Notifications

Developers Track, The Web Conference, 2018

Linked Specifications, Test Suites, and Implementation Reports

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2017

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

Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, 2017

dokieli

OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Making a case for decentralised scholarly communication

ICWE Applications

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

ESWC Research

Linked Data Notifications

Swiss National Science Foundation

dokieli

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

Call for Linked Research

Seminar Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage

Call for Linked Research

Observatory for Knowledge Organisation Systems

dokieli: decentralised authoring, annotations and social notifications

University of Fribourg, eXascale Infolab

Call for Linked Research

ISWC 2016 SemStats

Sparqlines: SPARQL to Sparkline

Semantic Web in Libraries, 2015

Call for Linked Research

MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative

Linked Research

Cambridge Semantic Web

Linked Research

Swiss Statistics Meeting

Statistical Linked Dataspaces and Analysis

ESWC 2015 Demos

This ‘Paper’ is a Demo

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Lectures on Linked Data

Share PSI 2.0, Samos Summit

Linked Statistical Dataspaces and Analysis

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Lectures on Linked Data

Linked Data Europe, European Data Forum

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

CEDAR minisymposium

Linked Statistical Dataspaces and Analysis

eHumanities research meeting

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

Confoo 2014

Statistical Linked Open Data and Analysis

Confoo 2014

Linked Data: Publication and Consumption

Séminaire Linked Data, Swiss Federal Archives

Statistical Linked Dataspaces and Analysis

ISWC 2013 SemStats

Linked Statistical Data Analysis

Web und Internettechnologien, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Lectures on Linked Data

Confoo 2012

RDF and SPARQL: The Peanut Butter and Jam

Confoo 2012

Linked Data Life Cycles

Open Government Data Camp 2011

DataGovIE : Irish government dataspace

Confoo 2011

Linked Data: The New Black

Confoo 2010

Mark, Query, and Visualise

WordCamp Montréal 2009

Making StatusNet and WordPress work together

W3Québec

microformats in identi.ca

GLIS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies, McGill University

microformats: #towerofbabel #pareto #dataportability

PHP Québec Conference 2009

Website data through the looking-glass

PHP Québec monthly meeting

Interacting with microformats

Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 02

Internal site SEO guidelines

Nstein Innovation Leaders Summit 2008

Creating next generation Web sites

Coder's Saturday

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

Transcontinental Media Lunch and Learn 01

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

RoCoCoCamp 2007

User Interface talk on the current wikiHow design.

University of Bonn

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.

Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

Thesis: Statistical Linked Dataspaces

University of Windsor

Thesis: Deterministic KBBK chess endgame.

University of Windsor