Graham Klyne
http://www.ninebynine.org/
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Welcome!
Why "Nine by Nine"? Back in 1986 I left my then full-time employment to trade as a freelance software developer and consultant. At that time, my working space was a small "box room", slightly smaller than 9 feet square, into which I shoehorned all of my computer equipment and books, which gave rise to my trading name. Since then I've been in and out of normal employment a few times, but have retained my trading name to provide a degree of continuity, and to remind me of those good old days :-)
Currently, as of early 2015, I am working on Annalist, a linked data notebook which aims to fill a gap[ in the landscape of tools for data management by individual researchers and small research groups, and also act as a general tool for semi-structured data collection and organization (e.g. my canal cruising log). This is an open development project hosted on GitHub.
Previously, I was doing research and development work with the Image Bioinformatics Group of the zoology department at Oxford University, applying Semantic Web technologies to researfch data management, including Research Objects for workflow preservation (http://www.wf4ever-project.org), W3C provenance standards (http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/), the development of a semantically-enhanced image database and publishing system (http://www.bioimage.org), working on Web portal technogoes for virtual research envrionments (VREs) for Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) Research Technologies Service (RTS), and developing embedded web software for a startup company O2M8.
I also provide network Internet application standards consulting services through Nine by Nine. My work has involved me in Internet standards development with IETF and W3C, helping developers incorporate new technologies into products, raising awareness of emerging technologies with product planners, and undertaking experimental prototyping of new ideas. I have recently been involved with the iTrust working group and active in the Haskell programming community.
I've been working on designing and developing Internet software since about 1994, prior to my current position being head of strategic research for MIMEsweeper Group, exploring ideas server-based network content security and management software. Before that I was involved in a variety of technical software developments, ranging from process control and computer aided design to scientific instrumentation and financial trading software. I designed and devloped the first commercial 3-dimensional motion capture system, VICON, which was originally intended for application in orthopaedic medicine but which has since evolved into a very comprehensive system with applications in medicine, sports biomechanics, robotics, and scene synthesis for films and computer games. The original software ran on a Digital PDP-11/23 using 128Kb of main memory and 10Mb of disk. A distant descendent of that early software is currently produced and marketed by Vicon Motion Systems.
My interests include metadata and knowledge based applications using RDF and other Semantic Web technologies, application messaging and asyncronously coupled network systems (e.g. APEX; see also my presentation given at ISOC 2001 - PPT, PDF), real time systems and functional programming (particularly using Haskell).
I am married and have two children. We live near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, close to the River Thames.
One of our pleasures is to travel the British waterways by narrowboat. The inland waterways were built in the 18th and 19th centuries to carry trade goods and raw materials, but by the late 1800s were rapidly being displaced by railways. To save costs, many of the locks and bridges were built just 7 feet wide, leading to the characteristic long thin shape of the narrowboats that ply the canals. These boats have been described as resembling a "steel sausage". Now the canals are used mostly for pleasure boating, and it is possible to travel by inland waterway all the way from Bristol in the South West of England up to Skipton in North Yorkshire. If you have plenty of time, that is, because narrowboats do not travel fast: 3 lock-miles per hour is a fairly good pace.
We have a 57 foot narrowboat, "Urquhart Castle", and previously shared a family boat called "Helva".
My other hobby is radio controlled model flying. Standing on top of a hill, with scenic views over open countryside, and flying a glider using nothing more than the natural lift created by wind blowing on to the hill is a pretty good antidote to being sat in front of a computer screen all day.
Miscellaneous images from various excursions, near and far, for work and pleasure.
(This is rather out of date: I should update it to take account of more recent FOAF developments.)
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Last updated: 2015-03-02
