User:VladimirAlexiev

PhD in computing science from University of Alberta, MS in computer science from Technical University of Sofia, PMP certification, Project Risk and Quality Management diploma. He has 25 years of IT experience, of which 15 years of IT PM experience and 4 years of experience with semantic technologies. He is one of the founders of Sirma Group Holding, the largest Bulgarian IT group, and the parent company of Ontotext. He is a Masters-level lecturer in IT PM at New Bulgarian University. Experience includes ontology engineering, metadata standards, vocabularies and thesauri, RDF, RDFS, OWL2, SKOS, SPARQL, Linked Open Data, mapping, ETL, semantic web applications, project management, business analysis and requirements specifications. He has worked in various business domains, from Customs and Excise, to Personal Finance workflows, to Legal Procedures and Statistics, to Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities. In Ontotext he leads the Data and Ontology Management (DOM) group, where he works on a wide range of projects related to cultural heritage, libraries, CIDOC CRM, Europeana, linked open data management, etc. He served in Europeana task forces on EDM-FRBRoo Application Profile and Multilingual Enrichment Strategy. He has contributed to the ontology definition of the ISO 25964 standard for thesauri management and is currently working on publishing important CH thesauri to LOD. He has particular interest in the faithful representation of humanities data (museum, library, archaeology, medieval studies, etc), CIDOC CRM and its extensions, practical applications with such data.