The Zepheira team are not only individual experts, but also leaders among communities of industry practice. In all we do we emphasize open standards, open source software, and shared, open data. We are prolific authors of technical articles and reports, and are frequently sought upon to present our experience at conferences. Professional leadership, co-operation and collaboration run in our blood.
The Zepheira team includes project leads and lead developers on a number of open-source projects that share a common theme of making it easier to create, manage, re-use and deliver data on the Web. These projects include:
- 4Suite, a platform for XML processing and knowledge-management, and Amara XML toolkit a more friendly interface for 4Suite facilities in Python.
- Mulgara, a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java.
- PiNKY, a 1060 NetKernel module to provide Yahoo Pipes-like functionality to the Enterprise
- Redfoot, a hypercoding system which is being used to create a webized operating system and is also being used to create applications. It provides standard web mechanisms to transport information across different machines and programmatically specifies the tasks for bundling and installing new software features across networked machines
- The MIT Simile Project, focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets.
The Zepheira team also includes:
- key contributors at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- a member of the Program Committee for the International World Wide Web (WWW) Conferences
- a member of the Program Advisory Board for the Semantic Technology Conference (STC)
- a founder of the Semantic Web Science Association, a non-profit organization to promote and exchange scholarly work in Semantic Web and related fields worldwide, including through the establishment of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).
- a member of the Program Committee and Demonstrations Chair for the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems (OOPSLA)
- a member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
- a founder of The XML Guild which is a consortium of some of the best independent XML consultants in the world.
- an elected member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
- presenters in the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series
- authors for The Pragmatic Programmers
- a columnist at IBM developerWorks, XML.com and Application Development Trends
- advisors to initiatives such as Creative Commons, The National Center for Biomedical Ontology and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative that share a common theme of making it easier to find, share and re-use relevant information
