Research
I'm currently a Researcher in the Platform Division at Talis, working in the field of recommender systems and collective intelligence in a Linked Data/Semantic Web context. Before joining Talis I studied for my PhD at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University in the UK.
My PhD research was focused on using the Semantic Web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically the aim was to: understand how people choose word of mouth information sources from among members of their social networks, and the factors that affect these source-selection decisions; model these processes as computational algorithms so they can be replicated in an online environment; build Semantic Web-based systems that support people in information seeking through their trusted social networks. See Research for a few more details.
Recent Publications
(see all Publications)- Tom Heath (2008) How Will We Interact with the Web of Data? IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12(5), pp. 88-91.
- Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta, Martin Dzbor, Laurian Gridinoc, Tom Heath, and Marta Sabou (2008) Collaborative Semantic Authoring. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 23(3), pages 80-83.
- Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Kingsley Idehen and Tim Berners-Lee (2008) Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008). In Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China, April 2008. [alternate]
