Jose Emilio Labra Gayo

Jose Emilio Labra Gayo is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, Spain. He founded WESO (Web Semantics Oviedo) research group in 2004 and collaborates with different companies and institutions around the world applying semantic technologies. The development of RDF data portals led to his interest in RDF validation. Member of the W3C Data Shapes working group which developed SHACL, co-editor of the ShEx specification and current member of RDF Star Working...See more

Jose Emilio Labra Gayo is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, Spain. He founded WESO (Web Semantics Oviedo) research group in 2004 and collaborates with different companies and institutions around the world applying semantic technologies. The development of RDF data portals led to his interest in RDF validation. Member of the W3C Data Shapes working group which developed SHACL, co-editor of the ShEx specification and current member of RDF Star Working Group. He implemented the SHACL and ShEx library, maintains the online RDF validator services RDFShape and WikiShape, and is currently writing the Shapes-rs validation libraries in Rust. He is co-author of the Knowledge Graphs and the Validating RDF Data books and has published more than 100 papers in these areas. Further details of his curriculum are available at https: //labra.weso.es/. See less