Robert Goldman

I am a research fellow at SIFT, LLC (https://www.sift.net), a small business that does contract research in computer science, human factors, and social science. My personal web site, with CV, is at http://rpgoldman.goldman-tribe.org (SSL for this web site, which has just moved, may not be properly configured yet).

Among other things, right now I am working on a project concerning automation support for experiments in synthetic biology. As part of that, I am working on the Protocol Activity Markup Language (with others), an OWL-based proposed standard for representing experimental protocols. To see more about this project, you can have a look at https://github.com/SD2E/paml and https://github.com/SD2E/PAML-specification. For better or worse, I am probably the person involved in the project who knows the most about how OWL works, but I still find myself learning a great deal about the language, the relevant tool chain and the pragmatics of using it. I am particularly interested in that, in the limitations of OWL, and what that indicates for future work with ontologies and the semantic web.

Another point of interest is work I have done using AI planning, and a bit of OWL to automatically construct semantically-driven web service compositions, finding and assembling together services based on semantic markup.

I have made some minor contributions to the Ontology of Measurement, and the Owlery semantic server.