Ian Davis' Projects

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I'm not embarrassed to say that I love data. Making it, exploring it, using it. Most of my projects are related to making data work on and across the web. I am an advocate of open knowledge and place the majority of my project work in the public domain. I'm also fascinated by genealogy and have a back-burner some-day project to open the world's genealogical data. Just to up the geek quotient a little more: I'm an avid board game player. Oh yes, and I do like SciFi (but none of that made-for-TV stuff:)

Sites

I've built and operate a number of web sites:

vocab.org – a free hosting site for RDF vocabularies and schemas.
OpenVocab – an RDF schema editor that allows the community to collaborate on creating an open vocabulary of RDF terms.
Schemapedia – a community built compendium of RDF schemas for use with Linked Data.
Link Sailor – a linked data browser.
ProductDB – an open database of product related linked data.
DataIncubator – a community site for promoting the production of linked data.
placetime.com – URIs for places and times.
sharedpast.com – my some-day project.

Demos

I've built various demos for Talis products and systems:

English Heritage – displays English Heritage sites on a map using data from Kasabi
dipper – a client-side linked data browser for the Talis Platform.
lodgrid – a grid based explorer of Talis Platform stores.

Vocabularies

I've built or contributed to a number of RDF vocabularies:

BIO – a vocabulary for biographical information.
TRANSIT – a vocabulary for for describing transit systems and routes.
RELATIONSHIP – a vocabulary for describing relationships between people.
Evidence – a vocabulary for describing forms of evidence and the hypotheses that may be formed from it.
FRBR Core – a vocabulary representing the concepts and relations described in the IFLA report on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).
FRBR Extended – a vocabulary representing the extended FRBR concepts and relations.
VANN – a vocabulary for annotating vocabulary descriptions.

Code and Other Things

I don't write as much code as I used to, but here's some of what I have made public:

Pytassium – a Python library for working with Kasabi.com APIs.
Potassium – a convenient PHP library for working with Kasabi.
Moriarty – a PHP library for working with the Talis Platform.
More on github...

I am a very poor graphic designer, but somehow I managed to create these:

FOAF Icons – public domain icons for indicating FOAF files.

Occassionally I write mini web apps:

Boredom – an idea generator for kids on rainy days.

I have contributed to the following:

Linked Data patterns – an open catalogue of patterns for creating, publishing and using Linked Data.