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During daytime, I work as a consultant for a company called Bouvet ASA in Stavanger, Norway. My areas of expertise and interest are: Topic Maps, front-end web development, Information Architecture. This is my personal blog, opinions and meanings. You may contact me at contact[at]topicobserver.com.

Background

I hold a MA in Computer Science for the Humanities from the University of Bergen, Norway where I specialized in web technologies, focusing on web programming, XML-technologies, usability, web standards and Topic Maps (my master's thesis on the Semantic Web and XML Topic Maps is available for download in Norwegian). I've also taken some extra-curricula classes in Information Science and Computer Science (database systems, Java).

Prior Experience

Ontology Development

Prior to working at Bouvet, I was involved in constructing a prototype application for the InterLigo research project at the Norwegian research organization Unifob's Centre of Culture, Language and Information Technology.

Through InterLigo I got a chance to evaluate and develop ontologies and get hands-on experience with RDF(S) and OWL. I did also get to take part in the systems design/architecture and information architecture processes, learn the Knowledge Machine and use XSLT for lots of cool stuff. Very interesting!

Web development and e-Learning

At UiB I did also teach web programming (PHP5, XML, XSLT, MySQL) and contribute to the development of enCore Online Learning Environment at Lingo.UiB where I stayed from January 2004 - December 2006 (did have a break during the Spring of 2005 while living in Chicago with my girlfriend).

In did also do a lot of PHP programming for Lingo, and am happy to say that I learned a lot about web programming and usability during these years of web development.

I am proud to be one of the chosen few who know how to code MOO (:D):

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  1. if (!caller_perms().wizard)
  2. return E_PERM;
  3. endif
  4. if (verb == "doSomething")
  5. {that, what} = args;
  6. else
  7. {hat} = args;
  8. endif
  9. ewu = $encore_web_utils;
  10. player:tell("Yihaaa!");

Other Interests

Apart from such geeky interests, I do enjoy other stuff such as a good movie and great music. My interest for web development was in fact triggered from working on my now-closed Smashing Pumpkins / Billy Corgan fan site, if you ever visited there while it was still up and running...

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