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Sebastian Ryszard Kruk

I am a lead researcher(eLITE) and project manager (Corrib.org) affiliated with DERI Galway and Gdansk University of Technology (GUT).

My main area of interest covers Semantic Web technologies, digital libraries, information retrieval, security and distributed computing.

Together with prof Henryk Krawczyk I came up with an idea of the semantic digital library which was implemented first at GUT as Elvis-DL. At the moment I continue work on this system under JeromeDL project, established as a joint project between DERI and GUT. To improve the quality of Elvis-DL/JeromeDL system I have started MarcOnt Initiative and FOAFRealm project. Both are at the moment supported by DERI and GUT under the hood of Corrib.org. I had started work on the lightweight implementation of HyperCuP protocol, that was later transformed into an independent project by Slawomir Grzonkowski, Pawel Bugalski and myself. I have contributed to Open Source community with a number of other projects like ResourcePocket and Questionary Application. I have invented the Virtual Desktop that has been implemented in MetadITo project. I have initiated work on DigiMe project (together with Slawek Grzonkowski, Adam Gzella, Tomasz Woroniecki and Choi Hee-Chul) that will bring user profiles back to themselves with ubiquitous computing paradigm. Recently I started two new projects:

• JOnto that delivers unified API to access different taxonomies (used in e.g. JeromeDL and FOAFRealm)
• Didaskon that will deliver a framework for assembling a curriculum from existing learning objects provided by e-Learning services. The selection of learning objects will be based on the semantically annotated specification of the user's current skills.

As an active member of the semantic web research community, I work together with Stefan Decker, Daniel Schwabe and Henryk Krawczyk. I have published a number of scientific articles in international conferences DBLP library.deri.org.