Biography
Nicholas is a former CSIRO research engineer who now mostly works in the priviate sector supplying Semantic Web-based products and consulting.
He is interested in improving the tools and theory behind Semantic Web and related areas of informatics and is actively engaged in company R&D, student supervision and standards development. His current research areas are:
- validation of Semantic Web data
- auto-generation of APIs from data definitions
- model profileing theory
- fuzzy spatial data models
Nicholas currently holds standards committee or working group positions in the following international organisations:
- ISO: International Organization for Stnadardization
- OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium
- W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
He is also a member of the following Australian government-based data committees/Working Groups:
- Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
- IT-004 (Standards Australia)
Qualifications
BEng (Elec) (USyd), PhD (Melb)
Research Interests
- Semantic Web
- Linked Data
- Graph data structures
- Spatial data
- Metrology Informatics
Nicholas is most interested in the interation of tools and researgh in these areas: research leads to a requirement for new tools; new tools then lead on to opportunities for more research.
Nicholas maintains sevaral Open Source data science tools, such as Python’s RDFlib, that are used to further research.