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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 and Publicationsfor a few more details.

Recent Publications

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Christian Bizer, Tom Heath and Tim Berners-Lee (to appear) Linked Data - The Story So Far. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Special Issue on Linked Data.
Lora Aroyo, Paolo Traverso, Fabio Ciravegna, Philipp Cimiano, Tom Heath, Eero Hyvönen, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Eyal Oren, Marta Sabou, Elena Simperl, (eds.) (2009) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31 - June 4, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5554, Springer.
Tom Heath (2008) Information-seeking on the Web with Trusted Social Networks — from Theory to Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Tom Heath and Enrico Motta (2008) Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data. Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 6 (4).
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]