Jeni Tennison

The Stationery Office

Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant currently contracted to TSO. She specialises in XSLT and XML schema development with forays into AJAX and RDF. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a PhD in collaborative ontology development, and since becoming a consultant has worked in a wide variety of areas, including journal publishing, medieval manuscripts, legislation and financial services. She is author of several books including “Beginning XSLT 2.0” (Apress, 2005).

Jeni was an invited expert on the W3C’s XSL Working Group during the development of XSLT 2.0 and was one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardise extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is currently working on the XProc pipeline definition language as an invited expert on the W3C’s XML Processing Working Group, on the Layered Markup and aNnotation Language (LMNL), and on the DataType Library Language (DTLL).

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14:00 Thursday, 8 May 2008

SemWebbing the London Gazette

Open data Goldsmiths 3

Jeni Tennison (The Stationery Office), John Sheridan (The Office of Public Sector Information)

What does it take to add semantics to your website? The London Gazette, the UK government's Official Journal, holds a huge amount of information — statutory notices about decisions and changes at a local and national level. The government wants to expose this information using RDFa so that it becomes easy to re-use. But it takes more than just creating an ontology and changing a few lines of code. Read more.