DIANE HILLMANN - Key Persons

Jon Phipps From an early start in the typesetting business writing software to support data conversion and publishing, Jon wandered into the Cornell portion of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in late 2001 where they made the mistake of feeding him. Jon served as technical lead for the NSDL Core Integration Group at Cornell and co-PI of the NSF-funded NSDL Registry (now the Open Metadata Registry (OMR)) and helped build the ground-breaking metadata based infrastructure for the NSDL. He has been involved in standards development, both within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and as a member of the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group. While working with the latter group, Jon was co-editor of the W3C "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements" note, and co-editor of the update to the W3C "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies" technical report. More recently, Jon has been contributing to the technical infrastructure behind the new version of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard.