Jonathan Robie Email & Phone Number

biblicalhumanities.org is a community of computer scientists, Bible scholars, and digital humanists collaborating to create open digital resources for biblical studies. Our emphasis is on open resources for biblical languages, such as morphologically tagged texts, treebanks, and lexicons. I founded biblicalhumanities.org with Randall Tan.

B-Greek is a forum where scholars and other experts discuss the fine points of biblical Greek together with beginners who ask questions and receive answers. The archives contain a wealth of information. I run B-Greek.

I manage a team that develops linguistic datasets for the Greek and Hebrew Bible, creates curation systems for Bible-related content and media, and develops tools to support Bible translation and scholarship. My work is at the intersection of computer science, linguistics, biblical studies, natural language processing, information architecture, and Bible.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As Program Manager, I worked with translation consultants and translation teams to understand how they think and how they work together, creating new features and improving existing features, working with use cases and focus groups to make sure we understood the real requirements, then using the same focus groups to test features at various stages of.

Primary editor of current XQuery and XPath specifications, and of several other XQuery-related specifications, at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the web standards organization founded by Tim Berners-Lee. A lead designer of the W3C XQuery language. Recognized as an InfoWorld 2005 Innovator of the Year for my work on XML query languages. Co-author of.

Helping design REST architectures and query architectures, mentoring, coordinating designs across teams and product groups. Chair of API Governance Board in EMC Enterprise Content Division. Member of Architecture Community Forum, leading some of the architecture reviews. Organizing hackathons and hands-on tutorials and speaking at conferences. Managing.

Lead editor of JSONiq, a query language for JSON, based on XQuery. One profile of JSONiq removes everything directly related to XML, adding JSON constructors and navigation. Another profile includes the full XQuery language, with added JSON support, allowing queries to consume or produce JSON, XML, or HTML.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Principal Software Engineer on the MRG Messaging team. Apache Committer for the Qpid project. Designed and implemented the Apache Qpid XML Exchange. Primary author of Programming in Apache Qpid, Red Hat MRG Messaging Tutorial, and Red Hat MRG Messaging User's Guide. Continued participation in W3C XML Query Working Group.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

XQuery Technology Lead, Program Manager for DataDirect XQuery 1.0 and DataDirect Connect for SQL/XML. Lead designer of DataDirect’s XQuery implementation. In this role I worked primarily with development and marketing, writing functional specifications, reviewing and coordinating development, QA, and documentation, writing white papers and marketing.

Research and Development Fellow. I represented Software AG on the XML Query and XML Schema Working Groups, was a member of the Tamino architectural team, consulted to the kernel developers on the specification and implementation of XQuery, supervised QuiP XQuery prototype, and supervised Patrick Lehti’s specification and implementation of XQuery Updates.

Texcel Software, makers of an editorial repository for SGML and XML. Presented for Texcel regularly at XML and SGML conferences. XML Architect and W3C Advisory Committee Representative. Member of Architecture Group; active in designing high-performance, scaleable architectures for XML repositories in future products. Member of the W3C Document Object Model.

Berlin Area, Germany

POET Software, makers of an XML/SGML repository and an object oriented database. Chief architect of POET’s XML / SGML repository. Implemented low-level and object-level transaction management in the kernel of the POET object database server. Presented talks for POET at object oriented developer’s conferences and SGML/XML conferences. Did consulting.

Berlin Area, Germany

Image quality study for the development team of the Siemens desktop scanners. In addition to an extensive literature search, the impact of various effects was simulated by writing image processing software to process TIFF files in both spatial and frequency domains, convert to PostScript, and output images on a calibrated typesetter.

Berlin, Germany

Programmed a multiprogramming monitor in assembly language for an office imaging system sold by Grundig. Investigated a network-based joint editing environment for the German post office. Programmed step motors in assembly language for Siemens and other companies.