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byron@openwork.nz
OpenWork designs solutions that enable you to find, link, and share information in ways that work for you. We provide system design, implementation and development with Geospatial Technologies, Linked Open Data, and Online Catalogue Systems. We work closely with international and regional standards organisations to ensure that the solutions we provide are open, robust and sustainable.
Location is the primary means by which things are related, in that nearer things tend to be more related to each other than further things. We provide our geospatial expertise to help you pick up on these relations.
Aggregating information from multiple sources can be a pain. A pain that Linked Data, a set of open standards from the W3C, reduces significantly.
It does this by recording the links between things, allowing different parties to explicitly reference the same concepts, and by applying "inference" to determine when they're implicitly refering to the same concepts.
Before you can use data, you need to know that it exists. And that it is of sufficient quality for use. This is what catalogues help you with.
Catalogues also help Linked Open Data, because they help different parties refer to the same things the same way.
Byron has over 25 years experience as a leader in providing interopability and data linking solutions in a large number of contexts across the globe. His greatest expertise is in Open Data Standards implementation and development - particularly in the geospatial realm. Byron has served at various levels of government, the military and private industry, both in New Zealand, Australia and the US. He has often been turned to by organisations wishing to develop, organise and manage their disparate data using standards based interoperability solutions. In recent years Byron has contributed to multiple international interoperability efforts including the W3C Spatial Data on the Web, numerous test bed and interoperability experiments for the Open Geographic Consortium and standards development for ISO Technical Committee 211.
byron@openwork.nz
Graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 2017 with a degree in Computer Science and programming since he was 10, Adrian is passionate about helping people be empowered by computers through custom software development work. Whilst he was studying at Victoria University, Adrian interned at Catalyst IT for an extended time where he worked on the KELP log file analytics/debugging project and Samba Windows-compatible file sharing project. After graduating he successfully completed several contracts including ones for visualizing shared vocabularies and a privacy-conscious blogging site. It’s not enough for Adrian to create something that works - he must know why it works!
For his hobbies Adrian enjoys illustrating how software can be better through his personal projects, and is always keen for a game of Catan.
adrian@openwork.nz