About me

I am the co-founder and CEO of KnowledgeHives.com, a Web 3.0 startup.

I have completed my PhD at Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. I have received Master of Science and Engineering  (with distinction) from Gdansk University of Technology.

Between 2004 and 2008  I was a PhD student, researcher (Semantic Infrastructure Lab at e-Learning Cluster in DERI NUI Galway), and project manager (Corrib.org) affiliated with DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway and the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). His main areas of interest covers Semantic Web and social networking technologies, digital libraries, knowledge management, information retrieval, security and distributed computing.

In 2002, together with prof. Henryk Krawczyk I came up with an idea of the semantic digital library which was implemented first at GUT as the Elvis-DL project.

In 2004, together with prof. Stefan Decker I transformed Elvis-DL into an open source project called JeromeDL, which was established as a joint initiative between DERI NUI Galway and GUT. To improve the quality of JeromeDL system I started the MarcOnt Initiative and the FOAFRealm project.

Since 2005, both were supported by DERI and GUT under the hood of Corrib.org. I initiated the work on the lightweight implementation of HyperCuP protocol. In 2005, as a part of the FOAFRealm project, I envisioned and delivered first prototype of Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, a unique bookmarks sharing solution. In 2006, I delivered JOnto component, a unified API for accessing different knowledge organization systems
(used in e.g. JeromeDL and FOAFRealm). I initiated work on the Didaskon project, which delivered a framework for assembling a curriculum from existing learning objects provided by e-Learning services. I also delivered the TagsTreeMaps component for efficient filtering tagged information spaces; and the HexBrowser component for representing information space using the HoneyComb paradigm.

In 2007, I prototyped the MultiBeeBrowse component, a solution for collaborative faceted navigation on unstructured metadata. Together with Adam Gzella, I set up notitio.us
- a social semantic information sources discovery and sharing service.

In 2008, together with Bill McDaniel I edited a book, and contributed to most of the chapters, on Semantic Digital Libraries (published by Springer). He
was invited to give four tutorials (at JCDL, ESWC,WWW) on Semantic Digital Libraries and one on tutorial on Knowledge Management with Web 3.0. In 2007, I organized the Irish Digital Libraries Summit and co-organized a Workshop on Web Archiving and NKOS Workshop (at ESWC 2006).

He contributes to the Open Source community. He received the best paper award for the paper ”Semantically Enhanced Search Services in Digital Libraries” at the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2006.