Giovanni Tummarello

DERI Galway

Presentations:

• (4440) Introduction to Semantic Web: ideas, platforms and APIs

Short bio

Giovanni Tummarello, Ph.D, is a Senior Researcher, Adjunct Lecturer and Project 
Leader at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway (http://www.deri.ie) 
where he leads the Data Intensive Infrastructures research unit. He has a 
background in computer science and computational intelligence and is well known 
for many all round Semantic Web projects such as the DBin Semantic platform 
(http://dbin.org, awarded at the international semantic web conference 2007), 
Semantic Web Pipes (http://pipes.deri.org), the semantic Sitemap Extension
(http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/), and the Sindice Semantic Web 
Search Engine (http://sindice.com).

He is author of over 50 scientific articles, organizer of international 
workshops (last one held at the last WWW conference, next one to be held at the 
European Semantic Web Conference) and co-authors of 3 EU funded projects. He has 
contributed to standardization processes within W3C (Multimedia Semantics 
incubator group) and participates regularly in program committees and as 
reviewers of related scientific Journals and conferences.

He often addresses real world customers and needs, participating in the works of 
his founded Semantic Web consulting and skill transfer company 
(www.sensiblelogic.com).