Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Freelance software engineer, blogger and educator, München.

Projects

JavaScript links: a curated collection of useful links.
Hyena: a connected information manager, a mixture of a wiki and a database, available as a desktop application and a web application.
Facetator: a data publishing system where read-only data can be dynamically browsed, but no special server support is needed.

Expertise

Web applications (GWT, Dojo, jQuery, Qooxdoo). I have been developing web applications since 1996.
Web technologies (microformats, feeds, etc.)
Semantic Web, Linked Data, RDF
Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python (I’m also familiar with Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, Smalltalk)
eXtreme Programming

I speak German, English, French, and Spanish.

You can hire me

I’m providing the following services, please contact me at axel(a)rauschma.de.

Lectures, tutorials, presentations, coachings on various topics (see expertise above or ask me).
Consulting regarding technology, website development, website usability, etc.
Part-time development of smaller projects.

Material

Vision: a platform for social/personal linked data

Slides of my talk at “Open data and the semantic web”.

Abstract: The latest social applications are web-enabled, collaborative, have meta-data-based navigation (tags, facets) and handle many kinds of data (contacts, messages, etc.). These slides present ideas for a database layer that supports this kind of application. It consists of an RDF repository, complemented by a set of specialized services.

If you are interested in founding the development of this platform or in contributing to it, please contact me. Any other kind of feedback is also welcome!