Welcome to the site.
About This Page
holygoat.co.uk is a repository for my personal projects, blog, research work, pictures, ontologies, and miscellaneous detritus. There are even some reviews hiding in the woodwork.
My blog sits on a modified version of PHPosxom 0.61. This is a PHP script that uses plain-text entries and generates the blog page. It now outputs XHTML with appropriate day dividers as well as RSS, Atom, and an archive. It also shows BST/GMT for each entry. It's getting a little long in the tooth, so I intend to rewrite it — the time zones are going to get too confusing.
Academic Information
Until September 2007 I was a PhD student at the University of Reading, researching various issues on the Semantic Web, and lecturing on a few topics. I found a full-time job to be quite incompatible with finishing my studies, though I am as active as ever in the Semantic Web community.
My research interests are mainly targeted at the Semantic Web. This means I write about trust, FOAF, RDF, OWL, agents, inference, metadata, and all that.
I'm interested in other things too; I just tend not to write about them so much!
Employment
As part of a healthy (if busy!) lifestyle, I also work for Tellme, a Microsoft Subsidiary, in Mountain View, California.
When I get the chance, I hack Lisp code. In the past this has included the Wilbur toolkit, the twinql SPARQL engine, and a host of other bits and bobs.
A full CV is available on request; a cut-down version is available.
