Dr. Andy Seaborne

Andy Seaborne is a mem­ber of the semantic web research group at HPLabs where he spe­cial­ises in query sys­tems and scal­able stor­age of RDF data.

Andy was a mem­ber of the W3C RDF Data Access Work­ing Group (DAWG) from the begin­ning, hav­ing worked on RDQL, one of the pre­de­cessors of SPARQL; Andy co-edited the query lan­guage spe­cific­a­tion. He con­tin­ues as a mem­ber of the newly formed SPARQL work­ing group.

He also works on Jena, the open source RDF frame­work for Java, where he has con­trib­uted the query engine, ensur­ing that com­plete imple­ment­a­tions of the stand­ards are avail­able, and sev­eral per­sist­ent stor­age sub-systems.

Andy has a PhD in Com­puter Sci­ence from the Com­puter Labor­at­ory at the Uni­ver­sity of Cambridge.

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