Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hartmann, M.Sc. (TUM)

Thomas Hartmann studied information systems and holds degrees in Computer Science from TU Munich (M.Sc.) and KIT Karlsruhe (PhD).

His research topic is all about RDF validation. He investigates how to validate any RDF constraints (formulated by arbitrary constraint languages) and how to express them generically. He presented his work at international conferences and workshops (e.g. WWW, ISWC, DC, and Dagstuhl seminars). Thomas Hartmann is member of the RDF Vocabularies Working Group of the DDI Alliance, part of the editorial board of the DCMI RDF Application Profiles Task Group, editor of the specifications DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary (Disco) and Physical Data Description (PHDD), and contributes to the W3C RDF Data Shapes Working Group.