Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Research assistant, LMU München.

Blog (I'm one of DZone’s Most Valued Bloggers) and Link blog
University home page (including scientific publications)

Projects

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.

Consulting services

I help companies make sense of modern web technologies and improve the usability of their web sites. My core competencies are information management, web technologies and software engineering. The Hyena project lets me put these competencies into practice. Areas of expertise:

Software engineering (UML, agile processes)
Information management, semantic web, linked data
Web technologies (microformats, feeds, ReST, etc.)
Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python. I am also familiar with logic programming and functional programming.
Technologies: Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Google Web Toolkit

I speak German, English, French, and Spanish.

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!