Foredragsholdere på Topic Maps 2010

Siv Holen og André Kongevold, henholdsvis strategikonsulent og interaksjonsdesigner Making Waves AS
Holen og Kongevold er rådgivere i Making Waves og har god erfaring i å jobbe med emnekart. De har blant annet erfaring fra rikshospitalet.no og visitnorway.com, som begge er prisbelønte nettsteder.
Making Waves innehar en flerfaglig design og er et teknologifirma som fokuserer på å utvikle tjenester som er engasjerende og lette å bruke både for sluttbruker og for tjenesteeier. Målet er å skape særpregede, brukerorienterte og smarte løsninger på sine kunders problemstillinger.

Stian Danenbarger, rådgiver Bouvet ASA
Stian Danenbarger is an information architect and technical concept developer at the Norwegian IT consultancy Bouvet ASA. His formal background is a Cand.Scient. (~M.Sc.) degree in computer science from the University of Oslo, where he specialized in applied numerical science. He initiated the development of topic map driven web sites and content management systems in Norway in 2001, and is by some considered key to the high activity there since then. His focus has been on the application of semantic technology and web oriented architecture in the public sector, particularly in the educational area. Stian has presented in a long list of fora in Norway, including most of the major Topic Maps conferences held there, but also abroad at TMRA07 in Leipzig, and at XMLUK in 2003. He is an avid photographer, and enjoys outdoor activities, wine, beer, music, and social cookery whenever he can.

Bente Skåret, webredaktør Bærum kommune
Bente Skåret jobber som webredaktør og kommunikasjonsrådgiver i Bærum kommune. Her har hun vært prosjektleder for innføring av nytt internett og intranett.

Andreas Rübner Johnsen, senior konsulent Bouvet
Andreas R. Johnsen har jobbet med webpublisering og emnekart de siste 10 årene, og var med på å lage det første publiseringsverktøyet med emnekart. Han har erfaring fra mange emnekartprosjekter i offentlig sektor, og er spesielt opptatt av hvordan emnekart kan brukes til for å lage brukervennlige løsninger.

Lidunn Mosaker Boge, kommunikasjonssjef Nofima
Lidunn Mosaker Boge er kommunikasjonssjef i forskningskonsernet Nofima, som driver forskning og utvikling for akvakulturnæringen, fiskerinæringen og matindustrien. Hun har bakgrunn som nettredaktør for flere nettsteder, og jobber til daglig med forskningsformidling på nett og i andre mediekanaler.


Motomu Naito, Motomu Naito, Guest associate professor of Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University and CEO of Knowledge Synergy Inc.
Motomu Naito is a guest associate professor of Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University. He is also founder and CEO of Knowledge Synergy Inc. He has related to SGML and XML document sharing/exchanging on the WEB for many years. Recently he is engaging in several Topic Maps projects. He calls himself Topic Maps enthusiast in Japan. He is one of the delegates to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 from Japan. Motomu Naito made JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) standards of Topic Maps by translating the ISO standards. He and his friends published a Topic Maps book in Japan in Dec. 2006.


Hannes Niederhausen, Dipl. Inf. University of Leipzig, Topic Maps Lab
Hannes Niederhausen studied computer science and linguistics at the University of Leipzig. His diploma thesis is about the development of a visual TMCL editor at the Topic Maps Lab.
Since June 2009 he has been working at the Topic Maps Lab.

Christian Haß, M.Sc. University of Leipzig, Topic Maps Lab
Christian Haß studied computer science at the University of applied science Stralsund where he graduated with an master degree in 2007. Afterwards he was working two years for a remote sensing company in Brandenburg before he joined the Topic Maps Lab in 2009.
 

Lutz Maicher, Dr. Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig
Lutz Maicher is a researcher and teacher at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In 2001 he started working on Topic Maps, and in 2007 he finished his doctoral thesis about Autonomous Topic Maps. In 2005 Lutz established the TMRA conference series. The annual conferences take place in Leipzig, with a main focus on research in Topic Maps technologies. In 2008 he founded the Topic Maps Lab which he chairs since that. Today, the Lab is a team of around 15 researchers who continuously work on the advancement of Topic Maps technologies. The lab’s most visible flagship product is Maiana.

Uta Schulze, Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig
Uta Schulze studied computer science (i.e. bioinformatics) at the University of Leipzig, graduated with a diploma in 2009 and is working at the Topic Maps Lab since. She supervises the development of the Maiana portal, works as an Ruby Topic Maps (RTM) developer and implements the Lab’s virtual TMAPI merging engine "Hatana".

Ida Heggedal, prosjekleder Hafslund ASA, IKT
Tidligere avdelingsleder for Hafslund Dokumentservice, konsernets faginstans innen dokumenthåndtering.  Leder i dag prosjektet for implementering av an ny dokumenthåndteringsløsning i konsernet.

Reidar Bratsberg, partner Ravn Webveveriet AS
Reidar Bratsberg installed his first web server in 1994, and has been working with web publishing since. He is co-founder of the Oslo baseddevelopment company Ravn Webveveriet. He is now working almost exclusively with consultancy and development of web publishing systems based on Topic Maps, with emphasis on interoperability of educational web sites and e-learning.


Synnøve Kleive, konsulent Bouvet ASA
Synnøve Kleive er konsulent i Bouvet ASA Bergen. Hennes fagfelt er konseptutvikling, interaksjonsdesign og informasjonsstruktur. Hun har jobbet med emnekartprosjekter siden 2006.

Ragnar Bøe, kommunikasjonsrådgiver Bergen kommune
Ragnar Bøe er kommunikasjonsrådgiver i Bergen kommune med nettet som spesialområde. Han har jobbet med kommunens emnekartløsning siden lanseringen i 2007.

Benjamin Bock, Researcher University of Leipzig
Benjamin started creating the first Topic Maps engine for Ruby in 2006 to unite rapid web application development with Ruby on Rails and the flexibility of Topic Maps data models. Benjamin is a Topic Maps researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In 2008 he was founding member of the Topic Maps Lab where he now leads the Semantic Integration group. As an expert invited by the ISO he represents Germany in the further development of the Topic Maps international industry standards family.

Axel Borge, Software Architect – Microsoft technology Bouvet ASA
Axel Borge has for the past 7 years been working as CTO and solution architect at the Microsoft department in Bouvet, one of the leading Topic Maps consulting companies in Norway. He is involved in most of the Microsoft-related Topic Maps projects developed by Bouvet. He is a leading resource in utilizing Topic Maps technology on the Microsoft platform. Axel has worked for 19 years on the Microsoft platform as a developer, software architect and consultant. He has been working with Web technologies since 1994 when he started as a consultant for Oslonett, one of the first Internet companies in Norway.

Lars Marius Garshol, konsulent Bouvet ASA
Lars Marius has worked with Topic Maps since 1999, as product manager for the Ontopia product, as editor of several of the Topic Maps standards, and as consultant on many Topic Maps-based projects. He has also been active as a blogger, speaker, and writer on Topic Maps subjects for many years.

Jacob Landsvik, seniorrådgiver avdeling for offentlige anskaffelser - ANS Department for Public Procurement
Landsvik er seniorrådgiver i Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT med ansvar for det nasjonale nettstedet for offentlige anskaffelser www.anskaffelser.no samt ansvar for nettverk og kompetansebygging

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Rani Pinchuk, project Manager Space Applications Services
Rani Pinchuk is the team leader of the Space Applications Services knowledge management team. The team works on Question Answering system over Topic Maps, integration of Earth Observation data and domain knowledge, federation of data from space experiments and crisis management related projects. In all these projects, Topic Maps is used as an underlying technology. Rani Pinchuk is also active in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 and is currently a co-author of TMQL.

With relation to Topic Maps, Rani has presented in the past in the following events:
TMRA’06, Leipzig, 2006: TopiWriter - Integrating Topic Maps with Word Processor and Toma - TMQL, TMCL, TMML.
TMRA’08, Leipzig, 2008: A case for XTM 3.0.
TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT, Prague, 2009: Integration of Earth Observation Data and Domain Knowledge Using Topic Maps.
TMRA’09: Automated Focus Extraction for Question Answering over Topic Maps andSemantic Integration of Relational Data Sources With Topic Maps.