Douglas Fils
Ronin Institute
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-9127| NSF EarthCube GeoCODES | UNESCO Ocean InfoHub | Internet of Water GeoConnex |
I work mostly in geoinformatics. For me, this tends to be at the intersection of software development, semantics, data and web architecture. Lately I have focused on structured data on the web leveraging schema.org and JSON-LD. This is seen best in the work on Gleaner.io and its application to projects like Ocean InfoHub, NSF EarthCube GeoCODES and DeCODER, Internet of Water and others.
I am part of the Ronin Institute now. I live and work from Slater, a small town in Iowa. Iowa is my home state and I have lived here all my life and always plan to.
Some auto generated stats from github-readme-stats. Not sure if they track the private repos though, need to look into that. For the most part, this is just data without context, so of no real use.
I've been exploring digital object patterns like
RDA's Digital Object Cloud and structured data on the web (schema.org et al).
I've been developing Gleaner and
https://github.com/gleanerio as well as some
tools like Mercantile](https://github.com/earthcubearchitecture-project418/mercantile)
and GROW to support this exploration.
Though I've working quite a bit with SPARQL, I've always enjoyed working in Gremlin. I really enjoy all sorts of graph ecosystems. I've been wanting to do something with Janus Graph, but tend to stay in RDF land. Curious to watch the adoption of RDFstar and its related elements
Interested in JSON-LD and applying things like SHACL to data graph work flows and have been active in exploring that.
I've also been fortunate enough to be involved with a group working in
the NFS Convergence Accelerator:
Urban Flooding OKN.
Connecting the digital object space to knowledge graphs is an interest of mine as well.
As a remote working for over a decade, community organizations are very important to me. The provide a means for me to connect with my peers from rural Iowa. The four most valuable to me include.
- Earth Science Information Partnership (ESIP)
- EarthCube
- Research Data Alliance (RDA) (profile & groups)
- AGU ESSI
I've also had some rewarding time with CODATA and been very fortunate to interact with the DDI group through them. I've also had the good fortune to work with the ODIS OIH project. This project is supporting discovery and interoperability of existing information systems through the development of a lightweight Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) architecture and more information can be found at https://oceaninfohub.org/.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-9127
Looking forward to diving into decentralized system more and decentralized ledgers. Not really into DeFi stuff, though I do play a bit there. More into things like self sovereign IDs and curious how DAOs could be used for the governance of FAIR implementation networkss.