Patrick Durusau

Patrick L. Durusau Ph.D.

E-mail: Patrick-at-Durusau.net

Acting Convenor, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 - Topic Maps

Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface

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Co-Editor, ISO 1325-1, Topic Maps -- Overview and Basic Concepts

Co-Editor, ISO 13250-5, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

Patrick is the Chair of V1, the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, the committee responsible for the development of the Topic Maps family of standards. He is the Acting Convenor of JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3, the topic maps working group. He is also a co-editor of ISO 13250-1, Overview and Basic Concepts, 13250-5, the Topic Maps Reference Model.

In the Summer of 2007 he will be teaching what is thought to be the first graduate course devoted exclusively to topic maps at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is deeply interested in the integration of diverse information systems (including ontologies) while preserving the ability of users to identify the subjects of their conversations in ways that work best for them.

See:

• the invited talk by Jack Park and Patrick Durusau entitled "Avoiding Hobson's Choice In Choosing An Ontology" - ConferenceCall_2006_04_27