Jane Frazier

As an information scientist, Jane works to improve user access to information, on the Web and otherwise. Her specific focus is on user research & user-centered design, metadata standards and taxonomies, and the language used by experts and non-experts in a given field. She thrives in a diverse environment of engineers, users, and designers.

Right now (2016) Jane is a data librarian at the Australian National Data Service, and for the past 2 years her team has been working on building and launching a national service for the creation, management, storage, publication, sharing, and machine use of controlled vocabularies for Australian research. Our service makes use of RDF standards (SKOS, etc.) to provide SPARQL endpoints for vocab consumption. As a part of this project, she is a member of the Research Data Alliance Vocabulary Service Interest Group and have worked with GaryBergCross.

In the future, we are looking allow the ANDS vocabulary service provide support for structures that are more complex than vocabularies, such as graphs and ontologies, and this is why she is interested in joining Ontolog.

In addition, Jane is personally interested in learning more about tools for making use of OWL and the intersection and differences between data modeling for graph databases and ontology modeling as she has some experience using Neo4j.

You can find more info about Jane on her website.