Ivan Herman—Miscellaneous R&D Activities

Major research and development projects

• 2001-present: Member of the W3C¹ team:
  • 2019-present: staff representative for the work on Verifiable Credentials;
  • 2017-present: Publishing@W3C Technical Lead, staff representative for the work on EPUB 3;
  • 2019-2022: staff representative for the work on Decentralized Identities;
  • 2017-2021: member of the W3C Strategy team for publishing on the Web, and member of the W3C Technology and Architecture team as a specialist of publishing and data on the Web;
  • 2012-2016: leader of the Digital Publishing Activity;
  • 2006-2014: leader of the Semantic Web Activity;
  • 2001-2006: head of offices and member of the W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group.
• 2013-2014: Data Citation Synthesis Group, part of Force11².
• 2000: Manager of the Dutch Office of the World Wide Web Consortium.
• 1998-2000: Associated member of the TACIT³ EEC TMR network.
• 1998-2000: Project leader for the Information Visualization project at CWI (some results of this project has been moved to SourceForge).
• 1993-1997: Member of the ERCIM⁴ (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Computer Graphics Network.
• 1993-1998: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24/WG6 Premo project (member of the rapporteur group, head of NEN⁵ delegation, document editor). This project also led to a full implementation of the Standard in Java.
• 1992-1996: MADE⁶ Project; workpackage manager, project leader for CWI.
• 1990-1993: Manifold⁷ project; CWI.
• 1988-1990: Dataflow Graphics Workstation system development for the DTN Graphics Engine; project leader for CWI.
• 1986-1988: GKS-3D and CGI Implementation in C for UNIX and MS-DOS; technical project manager, Insotec Consult GmbH.
• 1984-1985: System firmware for the GD85 GKS terminal; SzTAKI⁸
• 1982-1984: GKS-2D Implementation in C for UNIX and RSX-11; SzTAKI. Note: this was one of the first complete implementations of the GKS⁹ standard worldwide…
• 1981-1982: Printed circuit board editor for the GD80 Graphics Engine; SzTAKI.
• 1980-1982: Various system software for the GD80 Graphics Engine, like overlay engines, printing support, etc.; SzTAKI.

(I of course participated in numerous other, smaller development projects, but it would be way too long to list them here. These are just the major ones.)

(Co-)promotor and/or examiner of PhD-s

• Luca Costabello, Context-Aware Access Control and Presentation of Linked Data, Université de Nice, 2014 (Co-promotor)
• Alexandre Passant, “Technologies du Web Sémantique pour l’’Entreprise 2.0”, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2009. (Co-examiner)
• M.Sh. Sagar, “A Web-based Approach to Engineering Adaptive Collaborative Applications”, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, 2009. (Co-examiner)
• Ossi Nykänen, “Knowledge Agents via Logic Programming and Fuzzy Reasoning”, University of Tampere, Finland, 2007. (Examiner)
• Scott Marshall, “Methods and Tools for the Visualization and Navigation of Graphs (Méthodes et outils pour la visualisation et la navigation de données relationnelles)”, University of Bordeaux, France, 2001. (Co-promotor)
• J.E.A. van Hintum, “Quality Constraints & Constrained Quality”, University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1997. (Co-promotor)

(I am not affiliated to any university, nor do I have a university title. Participating in PhD work was therefore not part of my usual job…)