contact: name: brandon whitehead ORCID: 0000-0002-0337-8610 github: brandonnodnarb projects: # some of the (non-proprietary) work I'm either involved with currently or worked on previously - The Hawaiʻi Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities - BioWhere project: Developing Methods to Georeference New Zealand’s Biota from Text - ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee chair (2021-2023) - ESIP Soil Ontology and Informatics Cluster co-chair - Semantic Web for Earth & Environmental Terminology (SWEET) suite of ontologies - Global Agricultural Concept Space (GACS) [paper] - Research Data Alliance (RDA) Agrisemantics Working Group - Open Soils Data Portal [slides] - EarthArXiv preprint server; see also eartharxiv.github.io [paper] - An ontology pattern for transport [paper] - SemDat --- a semantic web map mediation service [paper] - Quantifying Depletion of the Southern High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer [poster] tech: # tools and languages - Resource Description Framework (RDF) - Web Ontology Language (OWL) - Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) - SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) - Protégé ontology editor - Python Programming Language -- Pandas -- Beautiful Soup -- gensim - ArcGIS - QGIS - GraphDB (ontotext) - MarkLogic Server - PostgreSQL Database - I'm a distro hopper; currently using: -- Pop!_OS -- PeppermintOS (Devuan base) -- Debian (stable)