Richard Wallis
Consultant, Evangelist, Founder at Google
Wychavon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRichard Wallis is an independent consultant, evangelist and founder with 11+ years focused on making Linked, Open and Structured Data practical for the web and the enterprise. He has driven Schema.org adoption and extension work for clients including Google, OCLC, Europeana and Stanford Law, and chairs multiple W3C community groups that map bibliographic, archival, tourism, financial and credential data into Schema.org. Combining hands-on backend development and test automation on the high-profile schemaorg/schemaorg repo with global keynote experience, he translates technical vocabularies into deployable strategies, training and product-level implementations. His work underpins real-world advances like voice and semantic search and has helped publish hundreds of millions of linked bibliographic records. Known for clear, pragmatic advocacy, he blends deep historical perspective from two decades in library and linked data systems with a knack for building cross‑sector communities.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
208reputation
15kreached
5answers
5questions
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
python10
rdflib9
data-structures8
test-automation8
data-structure8
json7
json-ld7
frame6
iphone6
gwt6
google-app-engine6
java6
javascript6
google-cloud-datastore6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
schemaorg/schemaorg
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Schema.org - schemas and supporting software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:831 commits, 10 PRs, 184 comments in 7 years
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on developing and testing features within the `schemaorg/schemaorg` repository. Their contributions included loading graphs from the application into local graphs for testing and using them in tests. They also addressed merge conflicts and made modifications to existing code. This suggests a focus on code quality and ensuring the correctness of backend functionality.
json-ldjsonldschema-orgrdfschemas
RichardWallis/bibframe2schema
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
Working files for the Bibframe2Schema.org Working Group
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 8 months
working-group
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