Zepheira – The Art of Data

Zepheira was founded of though leaders in the Semantic Web and Open Source Communities.  The team emphasizes open standards, open source software, and open data. We are authors of technical articles and reports, and routinely speak at conferences.

The Zepheira team are involved with the community as:

• Contributors to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• International World Wide Web (WWW) Conferences Program Committee Member
• Semantic Technology Conference (STC) Program Advisory Board Member
• A co-founder of 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).
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems (OOPSLA) Program Committee Member
• Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web Program Committee Member
• The XML Guild founder, XML Guild is a consortium of independent XML consultants.
• Python Software Foundation (PSF) Member
• IBM developerWorks, XML.com and Application Development Trends column author
• Advisors to Creative Commons, The National Center for Biomedical Ontology and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Zepheira’s founders also participate on a number of open-source projects that aim to simplify the creation, management, re-use, and delivery of data on the Web. These projects include:

• 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.
• 4Suite, a platform for XML processing and knowledge-management, and Amara XML toolkit a more friendly interface for 4Suite facilities in Python, and Akara, a Web platform for data integration that includes Amara 2.0.
• Mulgara, a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java.