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I'm Lead Researcher at Talis, working in the field of Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Before joining Talis I studied for my PhD at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University in the UK.

My PhD research was focused on using the Semantic Web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically the aim was to: understand how people choose word of mouth information sources from among members of their social networks, and the factors that affect these source-selection decisions; model these processes as computational algorithms so they can be replicated in an online environment; build Semantic Web-based systems that support people in information seeking through their trusted social networks. See Research and Publicationsfor a few more details.

Recent Publications

• Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Michael Hausenblas, Tim Berners-Lee (eds.) (2010) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) at WWW2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 27, 2010.
• Abraham Bernstein, David R. Karger, Tom Heath Lee Feigenbaum, Diana Maynard, Enrico Motta, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (eds.) (2009) The Semantic Web - ISWC2009. Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Chantilly, VA, USA, October 25 - 29, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5823, Springer.
• Christian Bizer, Tom Heath and Tim Berners-Lee (2009) Linked Data - The Story So Far. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Vol. 5(3), Pages 1-22. DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2009081901
• Lora Aroyo, Paolo Traverso, Fabio Ciravegna, Philipp Cimiano, Tom Heath, Eero Hyvönen, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Eyal Oren, Marta Sabou, Elena Simperl, (eds.) (2009) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31 - June 4, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5554, Springer.
• Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee (eds.) (2009) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009.
• Tom Heath (2008) Information-seeking on the Web with Trusted Social Networks — from Theory to Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
• Tom Heath and Enrico Motta (2008) Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data. Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 6 (4).
• Tom Heath (2008) How Will We Interact with the Web of Data? IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12(5), pp. 88-91.

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