 Bob DuCharme is the author or O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL" and a Solution Architect at TopQuadrant, the leading provider of software and solutions for modeling, developing and deploying semantic web applications on Windows, the Mac and Linux. He performs solution requirements, architecture analysis, design, and semantic model-driven application development on TopQuadrant's TopBraid EVN and the TopBraid platform. He came to TopQuadrant from Innodata Isogen, where he did system and architecture analysis and design for a wide range of global publishing clients as well as co-chairing the 2008 Linked Data Planet conference in New York City. Earlier in his career, he oversaw SGML and XML development at Moody's Investors Service and then moved on to LexisNexis, where he did data and systems architecture as they made the transition to XML-based systems. He is also the author of Manning Publications' "XSLT Quickly," Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification" and "SGML CD," and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook." Bob received his BA in Religion from Columbia University and his Masters in Computer Science from New York University. His weblog at http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog covers semantic web and metadata technology.
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