Current Interests

The following is a summary of my current areas of interest. Quite a number of these fields cross over, and in a World Wide Web context it is feasible for all the ideas to merge into one single application.

• Knowledgebases: Storing, manipulating and presenting accumulated knowledge on the World Wide Web.

• Document & Content Management: The management of document formats and the content they store, with a focus on presenting it effectively in a Web context.

• Portals: Managing, organising and presenting large amounts of distributed information and online applications flexibly to a visitor.

• Web services: Offering functionality and applications to other websites and customers.

• Website Usability: Making a website easy-to-use and customer-focused.

• DocBook: A SGML and XML application that focuses on storing documentation, technical material and books in a generalised format, ideal for situations where various document formats are required.

• Content Syndication: The sharing of content, such as news headlines or article summaries between websites.

• Semantic Web: The next step from the World Wide Web, where logical inferences can be made between two unlinked documents for the benefit of the user.

• Linux: Most well-known of the Open Source Operating Systems, and an ideal platform for Web development, Web serving and Web servicing

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• Knowledgebases
• Content Management
• Portals
• Web Services
• Usability
• DocBook
• Content Syndication
• Semantic Web
• Linux