Curriculum Vitae - Dr Renato Iannella

Personal Details

Name: Renato Iannella

Address: 316 Brisbane Corso, Yeronga, Queensland, 4104, AUSTRALIA

Nationalities: Australian, Italian

Home: +61 7 3892 6961

Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206

Email: r[at]iannel.la

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Employment Profile

Lead Data Architect - Airservices Australia, Brisbane, Australia

Feb 2019 - Current

Enterprise Data Strategy, Governance, Global Data Standards

Data Architecture Manager - Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia

Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

Data Strategy, Governance, Standards, and Architecture at Metro North HHS 

Adjunct Professor - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sept 1999 - Current

Teaching courses in Masters of eCommerce and Internet Computing program in data architecture and eHealth 

Adjunct Professor - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Jan 2009 - Current

Supervision of Masters and PhD students  

Principal Digital Architect - Semantic Identity, Brisbane, Australia

Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 & Dec 2012 - Feb 2015, March 2016 - Nov 2017

Independent Consultancy on Data Architecture, Semantic Web, Enterprise Technology &  Strategy

Chief Data Architect - RighstChain, Brisbane, Australia

October 2016 - Dec 2018

Blockchain-based enterprise policies

Head of Technology - RainSeer, Brisbane, Australia

July 2016 - Nov 2017

Lead the data architecture for leading edge solutions for weather data analytics for consumers and business 

W3C Representative & Data Consultant - Monegraph, New York, USA

Feb 2016 - Mar 2018

Co-chair of W3C Permissions and Obligations Working Group and BlockChain data consultant 

Head of Innovation and Emerging Technologies - KnowledgeFlux, Brisbane, Australia

June 2015 - March 2016

Conduct and manage strategic research into semantic business data, visualisation, collaboration, and provide strategic architecture directions, enterprise methodology and design authorities

Mar 2015 - May 2015

Information Architect (Consultant) - QLD Department of Education and Training, Brisbane, Australia

Managed Information Architecture design, metadata, information models, migration and strategy for corporate sites

Aug 2011 - Nov 2012

Lead Information & Policy Architect - National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), Brisbane, Australia

Information and Data architectural design, semantics, strategy, governance, policy, and frameworks for the implementation of E-Health National Infrastructure

Feb 2005 - Jun 2010

Principal Scientist & Research Group Manager (Managing Complexity) - National ICT Australia (NICTA), Brisbane, Australia

Lead Research and Development programs on Web Science and Internet Technologies

Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

Mobile Media Architect (Consulting) - Live Events Wireless, Melbourne, Australia

Strategic advice on deployment of DRM services in the mobile sector for content, sports, gaming

Mar 2000 - Dec 2003

Chief Scientist & Head Information Architect - IPR Systems Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia

Lead Research and Development for DRM systems and standardisation of DRM technologies in Internet/mobile sectors

Aug 1994 - Feb 2000

Principal Research Scientist & Leader (Resource Discovery Unit) - DSTC Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia

Leader of Research Unit developing new technologies for Internet/Web discovery and information management

Feb 1989 - Jul 1994

Senior Fellow - Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

Undergraduate teaching and research for postgraduate degree

Jan 1987 - Jan 1989

Computer Systems Officer - University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Computing support services for academics and students

Jan 1983 - Jan 1984

Computer Programmer - Omni Computing, Mt Gambier, Australia 

Software engineering for banking systems

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Education

Tertiary

1984-1986: Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing Science, South Australian Institute of Technology

Postgraduate

1989-1994: Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Science, Bond University

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Board, Advisory, and Honorary Positions

2015 - Current Queensland University of Technology IT Industry Advisory Board (Chair 2015-2018)

2010 Technology Strategist, Peepel Technology Pty Ltd

2009 - Current Visiting Professor, The University of Hong Kong

2009 - Current Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology

2008 - Current Honorary Member of the International Association of IT Governance Standards (ITGOVS)

2006 - 2008 Advisory Board Member, TDA-Tech Ptd Ltd

2005 - 2011 Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Queensland

2003 - 2009 Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

2000 - Current Founder and Convenor, The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative

1999 - 2003 Visiting Lecturer, The University of Hong Kong

1999-2003 Advisory Board Member, World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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Awards

2005 Nominee for the Queensland Pearcy Award

2000 - 2003 Distinguished Research Fellow Award, DSTC Pty Ltd

1992 Vice Chancellor's Research Grant, Bond University

1989 - 1994 Postgraduate Fellowship, Bond University

1986 Datec Pty Ltd Systems Analysis Prize, University of South Australia

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Conferences and Publications

1990

• Rees, M J & Iannella, R. Design Strategies for Graphical User Interfaces to X.400 Electronic Mail, Australian Computing Conference , Gold Coast, Australia, September 1990
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R. COREmail: A fully functional electronic messaging system. Bond University, School of Information Technology Working Paper 1990-3-025/B
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R. Usage report for the Quickmail electronic mail system. Bond University, School of Information Technology Working Paper 1990-3-039/A 

1991

• Iannella, R. Designing "Safe" User Interfaces, Australian Software Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1991

1992

• Rees, M J & Iannella, R (Editors) Proceedings of OZCHI92: Australian CHISIG Annual Conference. November 1992
• Iannella, R. Designing "Safe" User Interfaces, Australian Computer Journal, August 1992, Pages 92-97
• Iannella, R. BRUITSAM - An Interface for User Interface Guidelines, Australian Computer Society Queensland Branch Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, April 1992
• Iannella, R. Directory System Interfaces, Proceedings of OZCHI92 Australian CHISIG Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, November 1992

1993

• Iannella, R (Editor) Proceedings of QCHI93: Queensland CHISIG Annual Symposium. July 1993
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R & Lee, A & Smith, G & Woo, T K. Yarn: Text-Based Electronic Meeting Tools in a Distributed Environment. Workshop on Computational Support for Distributed Collaborative Work, Sydney, Australia, September 1993
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R & Lee, A & Smith, G & Woo, T K. Spinning a Yarn: User Interfaces for Synchronous Remote Electronic Meetings. OZCHI93 Australian CHISIG Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, November 1993
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R & Lee, A & Woo, T K. Synchronous Remote Electronic Meetings with Text-Based Tools: Forging the Conversation Protocol. Bond University, School of Information Technology Working Paper 1993-3-077/B

1994

• Iannella R. A Graphical User Interface Reference Model for Messaging Systems with Directory Integration.PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology, Bond University, May 1994
• Iannella, R (Editor) Proceedings of QCHI94: Queensland CHISIG Annual Symposium. July 1994Iannella, R. Object-Oriented Analysis with the Coad and Yourdon Methodology. The Source - ACS Qld Branch Magazine, July/Aug 1994, Pages 6-7
• Iannella R, BRUITSAM-A HyperCard Tool for Browsing Large User Interface Guideline Sets. CHI94 Conference-SIG on Tools for Working with Guidelines. Boston, USA, April 1994
• Iannella R. Heuristic Interface Evaluation - A Case Study of Dialog Design. Workshop on Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction: Joint Research Issues (Preprints). 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, Sorrento, Italy, May 1994
• Iannella R. HyperSAM: A Practical User Interface Guidelines Management System. Proceedings of QCHI94 - Queensland CHISIG Annual Symposium. Bond University, July 1994, Pages 19-24
• Iannella R. Heuristic User Interface Evaluation: Three Case Studies of Dialog Design. Proceedings of OZCHI94 - Australian CHISIG Annual Conference. Howard & Leung (Eds), Melbourne, Nov/Dec 1994, Pages 127-132
• Rees, M J & Iannella, R & Smith, G & Woo, T K. The Requirements of a Distributed User Interface Architecture. Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report
• Iannella, R. A Federated Architecture for the Government Information Locator Service - A White Paper. Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report
• Iannella, R & Gottschalk, J & Ward, N. Organisational Information Locator User Requirements. Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report
• Iannella, R and Ward, N. Organisational Information Architecture Overview. Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report

1995

• Iannella R. HyperSAM - A Management Tool for Large User Interface Guideline Sets. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. April 1995, Volume 27 Number 2, Pages 42-45
• Iannella R. Graphical User Interface Evaluation for Messaging and Directory Systems. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunications. Melbourne, March 1995, Pages 261-268
• Beitz, A and Iannella, R & Vogel, A & Yang, Z & Woo, T. Integrating WWW and Middleware. First Australian WWW Conference, Ballina, NSW, April/May 1995, Pages 245-251
• Iannella, R. Internet Resource Discovery with BabyOIL. AUUG Qld Summer Technical Conference. April 1995
• Iannella, R. Internet Resource Discovery Issues. QUESTNet95 Conference Bond University, September 1995
• Vogel, A & Beitz, A & Iannella, R. Discovery and Access of Services in Globally Distributed Systems. Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report
• Iannella, R & Ward, N & Wood, A & Leong, D. Resource Discovery - A Definition.Distributed Systems Technology Centre Technical Report

1996

• Beitz, A & Iannella, R & Vogel, A & Yang, Z & Woo, T. Integrating WWW and Middleware. MiddleWare SPECTRA February 1996, Pages 34-39
• Iannella, R. TURNIP - The URN Interoperability Project. DLIB Magazine, March 1996
• Iannella, R & Sue. H & Leong, D. BURNS: Basic URN Service Resolution for the Internet. Asia Pacific WWW Conference, Hong Kong & Beijing, August 1996
• Iannella, R & Ward, N & Chakrabarty, K & Curtis, C. Key Issues in Digital Library Interoperability. IFIP96 14th World Computer Congress, Canberra, September 1996
• Iannella, R. The User Interface of URNs and URCs. AUUG and Asia Pacific WWW Conference, Melbourne, September 1996
• Iannella, R. Smart Resource Discovery (Keynote Address). 4th Australian and New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems Conference. Adelaide, November 1996
• Iannella, R (Ed). Australian Digital Library Initiatives. DLIB Magazine, December 1996
• Iannella, R. Australian Government Information Architecture. Coalition for Networked Information Fall Task Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 1996
• Iannella, R & Sue. H, ORION: Resource Discovery for the future. DSTC Technical Report
• Iannella, R & Ward, N & Wood, A & Buza, P. The OIL Project and Digital Libraries. DSTC Technical Report
• Iannella, R & Hamilton, M & Knight, J. Representing the Dublin Core with X.500 & LDAP. DSTC Technical Report
• Ward, N & Wood, A & Finnigan, S & Iannella, R. Networked Information Retrieval Standards. DSTC Technical Report

1997

• Iannella, R & Waugh, A. Metadata: Enabling the Internet. CAUSE Australasian Conference, Melbourne, April 1997
• Iannella, R The Resource Discovery Project. Ariadne, March 1997
• Iannella, R & Ward, N (Editors). Proceedings of the 1st Australian WWW Technical Conference, Brisbane, May 1997
• Iannella, R. Using PICS as an Internet Metadata Repository , Proceedings of the 1st Australian WWW Technical Conference. Brisbane, May 1997
• Iannella, R. Metadata Repositories Using PICS Proceedings of the First European Digital Libraries Conference, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 Sept 1997.

1998

• Iannella, R. Mostly Metadata: A Bit Smarter Technology.Victorian Association for Library Automation (VALA) 1998 Biennial Conference(Keynote Address), Melbourne, 28-30 January 1998
• Iannella, R. Metadata : Cataloguing the Web, Australian Law Librarian , March 1998 Vol 6 No 1, Pages 9-13
• Iannella, R. Introduction to the Resource Description Framework Asia Pacific XML Conference , Sydney, October 1998
• Iannella, R. & Hamilton, M & Knight, J. Representing the Dublin Core within X.500, LDAP and CLDAP IETF Internet Draf
• tL. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R. Iannella, P. Faltstrom, URN Namespace Registration and Standardization Process Mechanisms IETF Internet Draft
• Iannella, R. An Idiot's Guide to the Resource Description Framework. The New Review of Information Networking , Volume 4, 1998 (pp 181-188)
• Iannella, R. Improved Ways of Finding Information on the Net. Information Essential (audiotape), AIMA Training and Consultancy Services, Canberra, November 1998.

1999

• Iannella, R. Representing vCard v3.0 in RDF IETF Internet Draft
• Iannella, R. & Campbell, D. Admin Core - Administrative Container Metadata IETF Internet Draft
• Lynch, C. & Baker, T. & Iannella, R. et al. Metadata for Digital Libraries: A Research Agenda. EU-NSF Working Group on Metadata, March 1999
• L. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R. Iannella, P. Falstrom. URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms IETF Internet RFC 2611
• Cox, S. & Iannella, R. A Syntax for Writing a List of Labelled Values in a Text String, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Note
• Iannella, R. & Sue, H. Dublin Core Metadata and AGLS Australian National Cataloguing Conference , Brisbane, October 1999
• Iannella, R. (Keynote Address) The Future of Internet Metadata The 5th Hong Kong Web Symposium , 4-6 October 1999, Hong Kong

2000

• Iannella, R. Representing vCard Objects in RDF/XML, W3C Note , 22 February 2001
• Simon Cox and Renato Iannella, DCMI DCSV: A syntax for writing a list of labelled values in a text string. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Recommendation, 28 July 2000
• Gardner, T. & Iannella, R. Architecture and Software Solutions.Online Information Review , Volume 24, Number 1, 2000, Pages 35-39
• Iannella, R. The Right Digital Technologies. Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Conference , Canberra, 23-26 October 2000

2001

• Iannella, R. Online Rights Management Trading. Information Online 2001 Conference, Sydney, 16-18 January 2001
• Iannella, R. Open Digital Rights Management (Position Paper), W3C Digital Rights Management (DRM) Workshop , Sophia Antipolis, France, 22-23 January 2001
• Iannella, R. Open Rights Language Requirements, Submission to the MPEG-21 Call for Requirements for a Rights Language/Dictionary. Singapore, 5-9 March 2001
• John Erickson, Renato Iannella, Rigo Wenning, W3C Digital Rights Management (DRM) Workshop Report.17 May 2001
• Iannella, R. Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures, D-Lib Magazine , June 2001, Volume 7 Number 6, DOI:10.1045/june2001-iannella
• Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), Version 1.0, Submission to the MPEG-21 Call for Proposals for a Rights Expression Language and Rights Data Dictionary, IPR Systems, 21 November 2001
• Iannella, R. Standards for Digital Rights Languages.PlanetEBook, August 24, 2001

2002

• Iannella, R. Speaking the Right Language. SEA Software, April 2002, Pages 65-58
• Iannella, R. Digital Rights Management (DRM) in Education - The Need for Open Standards A Position Paper for the IEEE LTSC and CEN/ISSS LTWS Digital Rights Expression Language Study Group Workshop 20 June 2002 Kirkland, Washington, USA
• Iannella, R. Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Version 1.1 W3C Note, 19 September 2002
• Daigle, L., D. van Gulik, R. Iannella and P. Faltstrom, Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms , IETF Best Current Practice 66 (RFC3406), October 2002.

2003

• Iannella, R. Trading Learning Objects.Proceedings of the EDUCAUSE in Australasia Conference, 6-9 May 2003, Adelaide, Australia
• Iannella, R., Higgs, P. Driving Content Management with Digital Rights Management, IPR Systems White Paper, April 2003
• Iannella, R. & Bremer, O. A Framework for Managing Rights for Mobile Learning Content, (Abstract). MLEARN 2003 Conference - Learning With Mobile Devices, 19-20 May 2003, London, UK
• Iannella, R. Mobile Digital Rights Management, IPR Systems White Paper, October 2003

2004

• Iannella, R. Online Trading of Rights-Enabled Learning Objects. International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Summer 2004, Vol 8 No 4
• Iannella, R. & Guth, S. (editors) Proceedings of the First International ODRL Workshop., 22-23 April 2004, Vienna, Austria
• Iannella, R. The Open Digital Rights Language: XML for Digital Rights Management. Information Security Technical Report, Pages 47-55, Vol 9, No. 3

2005

• Guth, S. & Iannella, R. Critical review of MPEG LA software patent claims. INDICARE, March 2005
• Iannella, R (editor). ODRL Creative Commons Profile. ODRL Initiative Profile Specification, 6 July 2005
• Iannella, R. A Review of OMA DRM ODRL Profile. Proceedings of the Second International ODRL Workshop. 7-8 July 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
• Serrao, C. & Guth, S. & Iannella, R. (editors) Proceedings of the Second International ODRL Workshop., 7-8 July 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
• Guth, S. & Iannella, R & Serrao, C. ODRL Workshop 2005 Report. INDICARE, 28 July 2005
• Iannella, R. Incident Notification: Requirements and Frameworks. Recent advances in counter-terrorism technology and infrastructure protection: Proceedings of the 2005 Science, Engineering and Technology Summit, Canberra, 12-14 July 2005.

2006

• Iannella, R. Digital Rights Management (Chapter). The Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgol (Editor-in-Chief), John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Vol 3, Part 3, pp 865-878
• Iannella, R. Managing Licenses in an Open Access Community. ERCIM News No. 64 (January 2006)
• Iannella, R. Information Exchange for Multi-hazard Incident Notifications (Poster). 3rd International Early Warning Conference, Bonn, Germany 27-29 March 2006
• Iannella, R. Modeling and Integration of Severe Weather Advisories for Situational Awareness. 9th International Conference on Information Fusion. Florence, Italy, 10-13 July 2006
• Iannella, R & Robinson, K. Tsunami Warning Markup Language (TWML). Version 1.0, July 2006. NICTA Technical Report
• Robinson, K. & Iannella, R. Resource Messaging for Emergencies. Safeguarding Australia 2006 - Proceedings of the The 5th Homeland Security Summit and Exhibition, Canberra, 19-21 Sept 2006
• Karen Robinson & Renato Iannella. Information Standards for Disaster Response and Recovery. 7th Australian Tropical Cyclone Coastal Impacts Program Workshop, Cairns, October 2006
• Renato Iannella, Karen Henricksen, Ricky Robinson, A Policy Oriented Architecture for the Web: New Infrastructure and New Opportunities. W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement, Ispra, Italy, 17-18 October 2006
• Sun, S. & Iannella, R & Robinson, K. Cyclone Warning Markup Language (CWML). Version 1.0, December 2006. NICTA Technical Report

2007

• Aymond, P., Brooks, R., Grapes, T., Ham, G., Iannella, R., Robinson, K. (editors) Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) Version 1.0, OASIS Committee Draft 01, 20 February 2007
• Iannella, R. Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL). Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, Edited by B. Fitzgerald, J Coates, S Lewis. Sydney University Press, March 2007
• Iannella, R. & Henricksen, K. Managing Information in the Disaster Coordination Centre: Lessons and Opportunities. 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). May 13th-16th 2007 Delft , The Netherlands
• Iannella, R. & Henricksen, K., & Rinta-Koski, O. Towards a Framework for Crisis Information Management Systems. 14th Annual Conference of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS). June 5th to 8th 2007, Trogir, Croatia
• Gangadharan, G.R., Weiss, M., D'Andrea, V., Iannella, R. Service License Composition and Compatibility Analysis. Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ISOC07), Vienna, Austria, 17-20 September 2007
• Gangadharan, G.R., D'Andrea, V., Iannella, R., Weiss, M. ODRL Service Licensing Profile (ODRL-S). 5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and the 3rd International ODRL Workshop. 11-13 October 2007, Koblenz, Germany
• Iannella, R. Supporting the Instant License Model with ODRL. 5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and the 3rd International ODRL Workshop. 11-13 October 2007, Koblenz, Germany
• Sun, S. & Iannella, R. Modeling and Integration of Disaster Situational Reports. RNSA Security Technology Conference, 28 September 2007, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Iannella, R. First Steps Towards An Abstract Model for The Policy-Aware Web. NICTA Techical Report, Dec 2007

2008

• Iannella, R. The Semantics of a Policy Language Framework for Web 2.0 Social Networks. Technical Report, Jan 2008
• Gangadharan, G.R., D'Andrea, V., Dustdar, S., Iannella, R., Trieber, M., Truong, H.L., Weiss, M. Consumer-specified Service Licenses Selection and Composition Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS'08), Madrid, Spain, February 2008
• Steel, J., Iannella, R., Lam, H.P. Using Ontologies for Decision Support in Resource Messaging 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 5-7 May 2008, Washington DC, USA
• Iannella, R. (Book Chapter) Rights Management and Licensing Multimedia Services. Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence Book Series, Vol. 120, pp 327-349, Springer-Verlag, 2008
• Iannella, R. Towards a National Emergency Warning Framework. NICTA Technical Report. August 2008
• Gangadharan, G.R., D'Andrea, V., Weiss, M., & Iannella, R. Service Licensing Composition and Compatibility Analysis. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol 17 No 3, pp 301-317, September 2008
• Gangadharan, G.R., Weiss, M., D'Andrea, V., Iannella, R.  Exploring the Intellectual Rights in a Mashup Ecosystem 6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop. 16-18 Oct 2008, Poznan, Poland 

2009

• Aymond, P., Brooks, R., Grapes, T., Ham, G., Iannella, R., Robinson, K., Joerg, W., Triglia, A. (editors) Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) Version 1.0, OASIS Standard, 8 January 2009
• Iannella, R. Industry Challenges for Social and Professional Networks. W3C Future of Social Networks Workshop, 15-16 January 2009, Barcelona, Spain
• Iannella, R. & Indrakanti, S. (Abstract) Partial Social Profiles: How to be a Social Butterfly and Urban Citizen at the Same Time! From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen: A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement. 13-14 July 2009, Brisbane, Australia
• Iannella, R. (Editor) Emergency Information Interoperability Frameworks. W3C Incubator Group Report 6 August 2009
• De Silva, C. & Iannella, R. (Editors) W3C Emergency Information Interoperability Framework (EIIF) Final Report. W3C Incubator Group Report 6 August 2009
• Governatori, G. & Iannella, R. Modelling and Reasoning Languages for Social Networks Policies. Thirteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference, 1 - 4 September 2009, Auckland, New Zealand
• Iannella, R. A Framework for the Policy-Oriented Web in Social Networks. 7th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects  of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 5th International ODRL Workshop. 22 Sep 2009, Nancy, France
• Iannella, R. Towards E-Society Policy Interoperability. 9th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, Nancy, France 23-25 Sept 2009
• Iannella, R. The Policy-Aware Web: New Semantics, Technologies and Infrastructure for the Web. NICTA Technical Report, October 2009
• Iannella, R. Social Web Profiles (Position Paper). 1st Asian Workshop on Social Web and Interoperability, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference. 7-9 December, 2009, Shanghai, China 

2010

• Henricksen, K. & Iannella, R. (Book Chapter) Towards Standards-Based Resource Management Systems for Emergency Management. Information Systems for Emergency Management, B. Van de Walle, M. Turoff & S. R. Hiltx (editors) M.E. Sharpe Publishers. 2010
• Iannella, R. (Book Chapter) Digital Rights Management Technology. Handbook for Technology Management. Hossein Bidgoli (Editor). Wiley, January 2010
• Halpin, H., Iannella, R., Suda, B., Walsh., N. Representing vCard Objects in RDF. W3C Member Submission, 20 January 2010
• Iannella, R. Towards E-Society Policy Interoperability for Social Web Networks. International Journal of E-Adoption, Special Issue on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society. Vol 2. No.1, Jan-Mar 2010, pp 13-29.
• Sahama, T. & Iannella, R. Information Accountability Framework for a Trusted Health Care System. Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2010), 24 - 26 August 2010, Melbourne Australia
• Iannella, R. & Finden, A. Privacy Awareness: Icons and Expression for Social Networks. 8th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects  of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 6th International ODRL Workshop. 31 Sep - 1 Oct  2009, Namur, Belgium
• Iannella, R. & Finden, A. & Sitbon, L. User Interface Design for Social Web Theme and Opinion Analysis. OZCHI 2010, 22-26 November 2010, Brisbane, Australia.
• Appelquist, D. & Brickley, D. & Carvahlo, M. & Iannella, R. & Passant, A. & Perey, C. & Story, H. A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web. W3C Incubator Group Report. 6th December 2010

2011

• Governatori, G. & Iannella, R. A Modelling and Reasoning Framework for Social Networks Policies. Enterprise Information Systems Journal Vol. 5 No. 1, Pp145-167, Feb 2011
• Liang, J. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Synchronised Integrated Online eHealth Profiles. Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2011). 1-5 August 2011. Brisbane, Australia
• Sitbon, L. & Iannella, R. & Bruza, P. & Indrakanti, S. Empowering Urban Communities through Social Commonalities (Book Chapter). From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01651-3, 2011
• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Sharing with Care: An Information Accountability Perspective. July/Aug 2011, IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 15, pp. 31-38
• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Information Accountability for online Healthcare Social Networks: A review and analysis. International Conference on Innovation and Management (IAM 2011) 12-15 July 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Privacy by Information Accountability for E-Health Systems. 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, 16-19 Aug 2011, Kandy, Sri Lanka
• Mohammad B. I. & Iannella, R. Privacy by Design: Does it matter for Social Networks? Privacy and Identity Management for Life - IFIP Summer School. 5-9 Sept 2011, Trento, Italy
• Yan Shen, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu, Renato Iannella, Abdulmohsen Algarni and Xiaohui Tao. An Ontology-based Mining Approach for User Search Intent Discovery. The 1st International Symposium on Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KMEL 2011) 8-10 December 2011, Hong Kong
• Yan Shen, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu, Renato Iannella, Abdulmohsen Algarni and Xiaohui Tao. An Ontology-based Mining Approach for User Search Intent Discovery. The Sixteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011), Canberra, Friday 2 December, 2011
• J. Liang, R. Iannella, and T. Sahama. Synchronised integrated online e-health profiles. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 168:96–103, 2011.

2012

• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Information Accountability with Policy Languages for e-Health, International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM 2012), Vienna, Austria, May 21 - 23, 2012
• Iannella, R. Towards E-Society Policy Interoperability for Social Web Networks. E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advancements. S. K. Sharma (ed), Information Science Reference, 2012, pp 83-99
• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. Privacy Oriented Access Control for Electronic Health Records. Data Usage Management on the Web Workshop at WWW2012, Lyon, France, April 16th, 2012
• Gajanayake, R. & Iannella, R. & Sahama, T. An Information Accountability Framework for Shared eHealth Policies. Data Usage Management on the Web Workshop at WWW2012, Lyon, France, April 16th, 2012
• Mohammad B. I. & Iannella, R. Privacy by Design: Does it matter for Social Networks? IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (J. Camenisch et al, eds), Volume 375, 2012
• Sahama, T. & Liang, J. & Iannella, R. Impact of the Social Networking Applications for Health Information Management for Patients and Physicians. Quality of Life through Quality of Information, J. Mantas et al. (Eds.) IOS Press, 2012
• Liang, J. & Sahama, T. & Iannella, R. Online Multiple Profile Manager for eHealth information sharing. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 10-15 June 2012, Ottawa, Canada
• R. Gajanayake, B. Lane, R. Iannella, and T. Sahama. Legal aspects of Accountable-eHealth Systems in Australia, 1st Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference, Perth, Australia
• R. Gajanayake, R. Iannella, B. Lane, and T. Sahama. Accountable-eHealth Systems: The next step forward for Privacy, 1st Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference, Perth, Australia

2013

• Randike Gajanayake, Tony Sahama, Renato Iannella and Bill Lane, “Designing an Information Accountability for eHealth”, IEEE Communications Society, e-Health Technical Committee Newsletter, 2(2), Mar-Apr, 2013
• Randike Gajanayake, Tony Sahama and Renato Iannella, “eHealth in Australia and elsewhere: A Comparison and lessons for the near future”, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. Health Informatics: Digital Health Service Delivery - The Future Is Now! Proceedings of the 21st Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2013)
• Randike Gajanayake, Tony Sahama and Renato Iannella, “The Role of Perceived Usefulness and Attitude on Electronic Health Record Acceptance: An empirical investigation using response surface analysis”, 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom 2013) 09 - 12 October, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal. 
• Iannella, R. Semantic Web and eHealth. Semantic Identity White-paper

2014

• Iannella, R. & McKinney, J. vCard Ontology - for describing People and Organizations. W3C Interest Group Note ,22 May 2014,  http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf
• Randike Gajanayake, Tony Sahama and Renato Iannella, “Adoption of Accountable-eHealth Systems by Future Healthcare Professionalsis”, 16th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom 2014) 15-18 October 2014, Natal, Brazil
• Gajanayake, Randike, Sahama, Tony R., & Iannella, Renato (2014) The role of perceived usefulness and attitude on electronic health record acceptance. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications. 5(4) p108-119 
• Gajanayake, Randike, Sahama, Tony R., & Iannella, Renato (2014) Access control requirements for accountable-eHealth systems. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics. (In Press) 
• Gajanayake, Randike, Iannella, Renato, & Sahama, Tony R. (2014) Consumer acceptance of Accountable-eHealth systems. In 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, IOS Press, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Iannella, R. Semantic Web Architectures. Semantic Identity White-paper
• Randike Gajanayake, Renato Iannella, Bill Lane and Tony Sahama, “Accountable-EHealth Systems: The next step forward for privacy”, Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, Special Issue, (invited Paper) 8(2) e11
• Gajanayake, Randike, Sahama, Tony R., & Iannella, Renato (2014) Principles of information accountability : an eHealth perspective. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, 5(3), pp. 40-57. 
• Gajanayake, Randike, Iannella, Renato, & Sahama, Tony R. (2014) Privacy oriented access control for electronic health records. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 8(2). 

2015

• Mohammad Badiul Islam, Renato Iannella, Jason Watson, Shlomo Geva. Privacy Architectures in Social Networks State-of-the-art Survey. International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity (IJIPSI). Vol 2 No 2, 2015

2016

• Gajanayake RN, Sahama TR, Iannella R. Principles of information accountability: An eHealth perspective, E-health and telemedicine: Concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications p149-166
• Gajanayake RN, Iannella R, Sahama TR. An insight into the adoption of accountable-eHealth systems - An empirical research model based on the Australian context, IRBM 37(4) p219-231
• Gajanayake RN, Sahama TR, Iannella R. The role of perceived usefulness and attitude on electronic health record acceptance, E-health and telemedicine: Concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications p49-59
• Iannella, R. What is ODRL? The Global State of Rights Management 2016: Interviews with Industry Professionals. Henrik De Gyor  (Editor)

2017

• Mohammad Badiul Islam, Jason Watson, Renato Iannella, Shlomo Geva, A greater understanding of social networks privacy requirements: The user perspective, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 33, April 2017, Pages 30-44
• Iannella, R. Information Architecture for Linked Open Data. Semantic Identity White-paper
• Iannella, R. Tragedy of the Digital Commons: Amplified Zombies. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Volume 36, Number 3, September 2017

2018

• Renato Iannella; Serena Villata. ODRL Information Model.  W3C Recommendation. https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-model/ 
• Renato Iannella; Michael Steidl; Stuart Myles; Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel. ODRL Vocabulary & Expression. W3C Recommendation. https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-vocab/ 

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Conference and Workshop Organisation

• OZCHI92 National Conference Program and Organising Committee, 1992
• QCHI93 & QCHI94 Symposium Chair for CHISIG (Queensland), 1993, 1994
• QCHI95 Program Committee Member, 1995
• Chair, Australian Resource Discovery Workshop (RDW) 1995, 1996
• Paper Referee, AusWeb Conference Series, 1996-2000
• Program Committee Member, 2nd Australian Document Computing Symposium, 1997
• Conference Chair, Australian WWW Technical Conference, Brisbane, 1997
• Co-Chair, 4th International Dublin Core Workshop, 1997
• Organising Committee, 5th International Dublin Core Workshop, 1997
• Organising Committee, 6th International Dublin Core Workshop, 1998
• Paper Referee, 21st Australian Computer Science Conference, 1997
• Program & Organising Committee & Developers Day Chair, 7th International WWW Conference, 1998
• Program Committee of Asia Pacific Web Conference Series, 1998, 1999
• Program Committee, 8th International WWW Conference, 1999
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Web Engineering, 8th International WWW Conference, 1999
• Program Committee, IMesh Framework Workshop, Warwick, UK, June 1999
• Program Committee, Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), 2000
• Co-Chair, W3C Digital Rights Management (DRM) Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 22-23 January 2001.
• Paper Reviewer, Twenty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference, 2001
• Session Co-Leader, eLearning and eTraining Roundtable, Gold Coast, 2002.
• International Advisory Board member of the International Conference on the Future of the Book (2003-)
• Co-Chair, ODRL International Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2004
• Paper Reviewer, International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA), 2004-2007
• General Chair, Second International ODRL Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
• Program Committee, EuDiRights 06 - First European Workshop on Technological & Security Issues in DIgital RIghts Management, Hamburg, Germnay 2006.
• Session Chair, NICTA Security & Technology Stream. Safeguarding Australia 2006 Conference, Canberra, 19-21 Sept 2006
• Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM2007) Delft, the Netherlands, 2007
• Program Committee, International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response (MobileResponse 2007). February 2007, Sankt Augustin, Germany
• Paper Referee, 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP2007), 2007
• Program Committee, 5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, 11 - 13 Oct 2007 in Koblenz, Germany.
• Track Co-Chair, 3rd International ODRL Workshop, 11 - 13 Oct 2007 in Koblenz, Germany.
• Program Committee, The Third Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW07), 2 - 6 December 2007, Gold Coast, Australia.
• International Scientific Committee, 10th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2008). Singapore, 7-9 July 2008
• Program Committee, The 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2008). 26-29 March 2008, Shenyang, China
• Co-Chair, NICTA/CSIRO Web Standards Symposium, Canberra, 28 August 2007
• Program Committee, International Symposium on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response (Mobile Response 2008), 29-30 May 2008, Fraunhofer Campus, Sankt Augustin, Germany
• Local Community Co-chair, 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Sydney, Australia, December 1-5, 2008
• Technical Program Committee, 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES IIMSS 2008), Piraeus University, Greece, 9-11 July 2008
• Co-Chair, Ontologies for Crisis Management Session at the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, May 2008, Washington DC, USA.
• Program Committee, Sixth International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS-2008) 12-13 June, 2008 - Barcelona - Spain
• Program Committee, 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, 9th - 11th July 2008, Pireaus-Athens, Greece
• Program Committee, Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 16-19, 2008
• Program Committee, First International Workshop on Open Source Software Enablers and Practices (WOSSEP08) at The 4th International Conference on Open Source Systems, 7-10 September 2008, Milan, Italy.
• Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE08) at the 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'08) Sydney, Dec 2008
• Paper Referee, Joint ISCRAM-CHINA and GI4DM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management, 4-6 August 2008, Harbin, China.
• Program Committee, Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 5-7 April 2009, Suzhou, China
• Track Co-chair & Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2009). Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009
• Program Committee, First International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security.  London, 6-9 December 2009
• Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Security In Information Systems (WOSIS), Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009.
• Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Database- and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009), Linz, Austria, 31 August - 4 September 2009
• Paper Reviewer, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST09). Istanbul, Turkey, 1-3 June 2009
• Program Committee, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM’09). Shanghai, China, November 7-8, 2009
• Program Committee, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009 Semantic Web In Use Track. 25-29 October 2009, Washington DC, USA
• Program Committee, 7th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and 5th International ODRL Workshop, Nancy, France, 22 Sep 2009
• Program Committee, 21st International Conference on Database- and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010), Bilbao, August 30-September 3 2010
• Program Committee, 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009). 1 December 2009, Melbourne, Australia
• Co-Chair, Second International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE09) at the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems. September 27, 2009 Athens, Greece
• Co-Chair, Asian Social Networks Interoperability International Workshop, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, 7-9 Dec 2009, Shanghai, China
• Program Committee, JURIX 2009 - The 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-18 December 2009
• Program Committee, 8th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and 6th International ODRL Workshop, Namur, Belgium, 30 Sep - 1st Oct 2010
• Program Committee, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010 Semantic Web In Use Track. 7-11 Nov 2010, Shanghai, China
• Program Committee, The 7th International Conference on Social Software, Galway, Ireland, 26th-28th August 2010
• Paper Reviewer, The 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 30 - Sep 2, 2010. Daegu, Korea

• Program Committee, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM’10). Sanya, China, 23-24 October 2010
• Program Committee, W3C Workshop on Privacy and data usage control. 4-5 October 2010, Boston, USA
• Program Committee, 6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010). 7 December 2010, Adelaide, Australia
• Paper Reviewer, OZCHI Conference, 22-26 Nov 2010. Brisbane, Australia
• Program Committee, ESWC-2011 (Extended Semantic Web Conference) Semantic Web In Use Track. 29 May- 4 June 2011, Heraklion, Greece
• Program Committee, 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011) 29 August 29 - 2 September 2011, Toulouse, France
• Track Co-Chair (Information Systems Interop Standards) 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM2011), May 8-11 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
• Program Committee, Eighth Workshop on Security in Information Systems at the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 8-11 June 2011, Beijing, China
• Paper Reviewer, 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). 7-11 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia
• Program Committee, 1st Workshop on Securing Services on the Cloud (IWSSC 2011)  September 6-8, 2011, Milan, Italy
• Program Committee, First International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2011) 29 June - 1 July 2011, Campione D’italia, Italy
• Program Committee, 7th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2011). 5 December 2011, Perth, Australia
• Program Committee, 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Vigo, Spain, Jul 11 – Jul 13, 2012
• Program Committee, Data Usage Management on the Web Workshop, World Wide Web Conference, Lyon, France, April 2012 
• Program Committee, Second International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2012) 18-20 June 2012, Campione D’italia, Italy
• Program Committee, The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2013), January 29- February 1, 2013, Adelaide, Australia
• Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Data Usage Management co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 23 May 2013, San Francisco, USA
• Program Committee, 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 8-10 July 2013, Boston, USA
• Reviewer (Industry Papers), Health Informatics Conference (HIC2013), 15-18 July 2013, Adelaide, Australia
• Program Committee, The Tenth International Workshop on Security in Information Systems WOSIS-2013, 3-7 July, 2013 - Angers, France
• Program Committee, 11th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and 9th W3C ODRL Community Workshop, Koblenz, Germany, 19-20 Sept 2013
• Program Committee, Third International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2013) 30 August 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy
• Program Committee, XXVI. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AICOL2013), Brazil, 21-27 July 2013
• Program Committee, The Second Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2014), January 20 - 23, 2014, Auckland, New Zealand
• Program Committee, First Workshop on Legal Knowledge and the Semantic Web (LK&SW-2013) at The 26th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
  Bolonga, Italy, 11-13 Dec 2013
• Track Chair (Semantic Web Policies, Rights and Governance) 11th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2014) 25-29 May 2014. Anissaras, Crete, Greece
• Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on Data Usage Management, an  IEEE CS Security & Privacy Workshop (SPW 2014) co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 17th 2014, San Jose, CA, USA
• Paper Reviewer, Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2014), 11 August - 14 August 2014, Melbourne, Australia
• Paper Reviewer, 22nd European Conference on Information Systems 9-11 June 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Program Committee, 27th International JURIX Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information  Systems (JURIX 2014) Krakow, Poland, 10-12 December 2014. 
• Program Committee. W3C Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc) Workshop  30 November - 1 December 2016, CWI, Amsterdam Science Park
• Program Committee. 18th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics.  29 Aug - 1 Sep 2016 Paris, France
• Program Committee, The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2016), Australia
• Program Committee, The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2017) 31 January - 3 February 2017 Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Program Committee, 6th IEEE International Congress on Big Data

June 25 - June 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

• Program Committee, The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2018) Brisbane, Australia, January 29-February 2, 2018
• Program Committee, 11th Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management. Brisbane, Australia, January 29-February 2, 2018
• Invited Judge, CSA × ISA Open Data HACKATHON 2017  14 Oct 2017. Computer Science Association and Information Systems Association, The University of Hong Kong

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Committees and Working Groups

• Advisory Committee Member on Integrated Document Access Project for Council of Australian Universities (CAUL), 1995-96
• Assessor, Australian Research Council (ARC), 1997-
• W3C Advisory Committee Representative for DSTC, 1997-2000
• Member of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 32, Working Group 2 (Metadata), 1998-2001
• Member of the Electronic Services Delivery Working Group (Federal Government) 1997
• Member of the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata Working Group, 1998-2004
• Member of the Federal Government Search Engine Working Group, 1998
• Member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and European Union (ERCIM) Metadata Working Group, 1997-1998
• Member of the Dublin Core Advisory Committee, 1998-2001
• Member of the Dublin Core Data Model Working Group, 1998-2000
• Member of the Dublin Core Multilingual Working Group, 1998-2000
• Member of the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Working Group, 1998-2000
• Member of the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Working Group, 1999-2000
• Advisor, MetaChem Project Working Group, 1998
• Member, IETF Uniform Resource Name (URN) Working Group, 1999-2001
• Member of the Dublin Core Element Working Groups, 1999
• Chair of the Dublin Core Agents Working Group, 1999
• Member, Dublin Core Executive Committee, 1999-2000
• Member, EdNA Metadata Working Group, 1999-2001
• Adviser, AVEL Project Working Group, 1999
• Member, IMS Metadata Working Group, 1999
• Invited Expert, Digital Library Research Proposal Review Panel, National Science Foundation, USA, 1999
• Member ebXML Architecture Working Group, 2000
• W3C Advisory Committee Representative for IPR Systems, 2000-2003
• Member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, 2000-2001
• Member of the W3C URI Interest Group, 2001-2003
• Member of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11 (Audio/Video, MPEG), 2000-2003
• Co-Chair, MPEG-21 Ad-hoc Group on a Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language Requirements, 2001
• Member, Standards Australia IT-19 (Library) Working Group, 2001-2004
• Member, Standards Australia IT-29 (Moving Video/Audio) Working Group, 2000-2004
• Member, Electronic Book Exchange (EBX) Executive Working Group, 2000-2001
• Member, Electronic Book Exchange (EBX) Technical Working Group, 2000-2001
• Member, OpenEbook Forum (OEBF) DRM Working Group, 2001
• Member, OpenEbook Forum (OEBF) Systems Working Group, 2001-2002
• Member, OpenEbook Forum (OEBF) Rights and Rules Working Group, 2001-2002
• Member, The Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) Project, 2001-2003
• Member, IETF Internet Digital Rights Management (DRM) Working Group, 2001-2002
• Member, IMS Digital Repositories Working Group, 2001-2002
• Member, IDEAlliance PRISM Working Group (Invited Expert), 2002-2003
• Member, OpenEbook Forum (OEBF) IP Policy Working Group, 2002
• Member, OpenEbook Forum (OEBF) Publication Structure Development Working Group, 2002
• Member, IMS Enterprise Working Group, 2002
• Member, Standards Australia IT-21 (Records Management) Working Group 8, 2002-2003
• Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) Digital Rights Expression Language Study Group, 2002
• Member, European Mobilearn Special Interest Group (SIG), 2002-2004
• Member, CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization System CEN - European Committee for Standardization DRM Working Group. 2002-2003
• Member, IMS Mobile Learning SIG 2003
• Co-Chair, ODRL Version 2.0 Working Group, ODRL Initiative 2004-
• Co-Chair, ODRL Creative Commons Profile Working Group, ODRL Initiative 2004-2005
• Co-Chair, ODRL Dublin Core Profile Working Group, ODRL Initiative 2005-2006
• Member, OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee 2005-2008
• Member, License Expression Working Group. (DLF, EDItEUR, NISO, and PLS) 2005-2997
• Member, GeoDRM Working Group, Open Geospatial Consortium, 2006-2008
• Member, Information Communities and Semantics Working Group, Open Geospatial Consortium, 2006
• Member, Risk and Crisis Management Working Group, Open Geospatial Consortium, 2006-07
• Reference Group Member, Towards the Semantic Web: Standards and Interoperability across Document Management and Publishing Supply Chains. RMIT (ARC Grant) 2006-2008
• Vice-Chair, GeoDRM Revision Working Group, Open Geospatial Consortium, 2006
• Vetting Committee Member of the DRM matching grant under the "Programme to promote legal download of digital content in Hong Kong". Hong Kong CyberPort, 2006-2007
• Proposal Reviewer, Slovak Research and Development Agency, 2006
• Member, W3C Semantic Web Interest Group, 2007-
• Member, W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group, 2007-2010
• W3C Advisory Committee Representative for NICTA, 2007-2010
• Member, National Forum on Emergency Warnings to the Community, Emergency Management Australia, 2007-2009
• Member, Carrick Exchange Digital Rights Management Investigation Reference Group. Education.Au and Carrick Institute, 2007
• Co-Chair, W3C Policy Languages Interest Group, 2007-
• Co-Chair, W3C Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, 2008-09
• Member, ISO/TC 211 N 2158 - Geographic information -- Rights expression language for geographic information - Working Group
• Invited Panelist, Information and Intelligent Systems Review Panel, National Science Foundation, USA, 2009
• Member, IETF vCardDAV Working Group, 2009-

• Member, W3C Social Web Incubator Group, 2009-10

• Member, W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group, 2009-10

• International Review Panel, Professional Doctor of Computing Programme, Department of Computing, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
• Member, W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, 2010
• Member, W3C Provenance Incubator Group, 2010
• Invited Expert User, CEN/ISSS WS-LT Learning Technologies Standards Observatory (LTSO), 2010-
• Executive Member, IEEE Semantic Computing Technical Committee, 2010-
• Member, IETF Uniform Resource Names Working Group, 2010-
• Invited Expert, W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS IG), 2012-2017

• Invited Expert, W3C Privacy Interest Group, 2012-2017
• Member, ISO TC215 Health Informatics WG3 Semantic Content, 2013-
• Australian Delegation Member, ISO TC215 Health Informatics Working Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, 21-25 April 2013
• International Research Project Reviewer, European Co-operation in the Field of Science and Technology (COST) for the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) Switzerland, 2014
• Member, IEEE Internet Technology Policy (ITP) Community, 2016-
• Invited Expert, W3C Social Web Working Group, 2014-2017
• Invited Expert, W3C Social Interest Group, 2014-2017
• Co-Chair, W3C Permissions & Obligations Working Group, 2016-2018
• Australian Advisor, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Information Management Panel, 2019-
• Member, Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) Change Control Board, 2019-
• Member, Air Traffic Management Information Reference Model (AIRM) Change Control Board, 2019- 

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Journals and Publications

• Book Reviewer, Australian Computer Journal, 1992-94
• Paper Referee, Interacting with Computers-The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1993-94
• Editorial Assistant, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 1994-95
• Computer Choice Magazine, Technical Advisory, 1996-2000
• Paper Referee, IEEE Internet Computing, 1997-2000
• Paper Referee, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 1997
• Paper Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1998-
• Editorial Board, International Metadata Journal, 2000-2001
• Advisory Board, XML.ORG Newsletter, 2001-2002
• Paper Referee, The International Journal on Media Management, 2002
• Editorial Board and Paper Referee, The International Journal of Learning Technology, 2003-2004
• Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of the Book, 2003-
• Editorial Board and Paper Referee, The International Journal of Web Engineering Technology, 2004-
• Paper Referee, Special Issue on "Enterprise Content Management" in the European Journal of Information Systems, 2004
• Paper Referee, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2006-2007
• Paper Referee, Journal of Systems and Software, 2006
• Paper Referee, Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2007
• International Editorial Review Board, International Journal on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 2008- 
• Paper Referee, International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems, 2008, 2016
• Paper Referee, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) - Special issue on Linked Data, 2009
• Paper Referee, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop Special Issue, 2009
• Guest Editor, International Journal of Web Technologies - Special Issue on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems, 2011
• Paper Referee, Journal of Web Semantics, 2011
• International Editorial Board, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2012
• Paper Referee, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2012
• Paper Referee, Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution (JLCR), 2012
• Paper Referee, IEEE MultiMedia, 2012
• Invited Paper Reviewer , Journal of Web Semantics 2013-14
• Editorial Board Member, Ontology Development and Applications, eSci Journals Publishing
• Paper Referee, ACM Computing Surveys 2015
• Editorial Board, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (Elsevier) 2016-
• Paper Referee, Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier) 2017

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Professional Societies

• Member, Australian Computer Society, 1986-1999
  Certified Practising Computer Professional (PCP) 1991-1999
• Member, IEEE Computer Society, 1990-1999, 2002, 2008-2009, 2010-11
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1990-1999, 2007-2010
• Member, CHI Special Interest Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, 1990-1994
• Member, DECUS, 1993-97
• Foundation Member, University of South Australia Alumni Association IT Chapter, 1998-
• Executive Member, CHISIG Queensland Branch, 1990-1994
• Listed in Who's Who in the World, 1995-
• Member, Internet Society (ISOC), 1995-1999, 2002-
• Listed in "Australian Men and Women of Science Engineering and Technology" 1995
• Member, IEEE Standards Association, 2002
• Member, ISCRAM Association 2009
• Associate Member, Institute for Metadata Management, 2011-2012
• Member, Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), 2012-
• Member, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Asia Pacific, 2012-
• SNOMED CT Foundation Course 2015

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Consulting and Grants

1992

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design Training, Hong Kong Jockey Club Systems (Australia)

1993

• X.500 Directory Services Training, Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia)

1996

• Global Information Access Study, 2i Corporation
• Government Information Access Report, Information Management Steering Committee, Office of Government Information Technology
• ANZLIC National Metadata Directory Service, Australia New Zealand Land Information Council

1997

• Whole-of-Government Navigation Architecture, OGIT/GTTC

1998

• Tasmanian Government Information Access Architecture, DECCD
• Federal Government AGLS Metadata User Manual, OGIT/NAA

1999

• EdNA Pathways Project for Educational Resources, Education.Au Ltd
• EdNA Higher Education Metadata Tools for Educational Resources, Education.Au Ltd
• Queensland Online Service Locator Architecture, Queensland Government
• UK ROADS Subject Gateway Technical Review, UKLON
• Internet Services for Content Detection, APRA
• Government Internet Metadata Technologies, South Australian Government
• Australian Government Internet Gateway (GOVERNET) Architecture Requirements, Office of Government Online and Queensland Government
• Review of Internet Technology Proposal, Flinders University
• Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL), University of Queensland Library

2001

• Digital Rights Management (DRM) Business Requirements Specification (BRS) and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS) for the Schools Online Content Curriculum Initiative (SOCCI), The Learning Federation.
• Functional Requirements Specification (FRS) and Systems Architecture for the Schools Online Content Curriculum Initiative (SOCCI), The Learning Federation.
• Department of Education Science and Training, Higher Education Division, Educational and Investigation Programme Study on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the Higher Education Sector

2002

• Higher Education Resources Organiser (HERO) Project, The Univeristy of Hong Kong.
• CAL/AVCC Copyright Guidelines review for a major elearning organisation.
• Collaborative Online and Information Services (COLIS) Project lead by Macquarie University. Developed Rights trading engine for learning objects and rights language profile for higher education.

2003

• Framework for Rights Enabled Learnig Object Exchange Trail for Australian National Training Authority (ANTA). Developed enhanced trading engine for learning objects and rights language profile for TAFE.

2004

• Expert Witness on DRM Techologies for international legal firm.
• DRM Strategic advice on DRM technologies in the mobile music sector for Blue Print Software, London, UK

2005

• Open Access for Knowlegde. DEST Infrastructure Grant. QUT Partner

2006

• Implementation of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the Learning Object Repository Network (LORN).

2008

• Development of Systems Framework for National Emergency Warning Systems. Emergency Management Australia

2010

• Development of Strategic Paper on Semantic Web adoption for Enterprise Architectures, Large State Govt Department, Australia

2011

• XML Patent Report, Legal Firm, New Zealand
• DRM Report, Legal Firm, Australia

2015

• National Strategic architecture for semantic digital health

2016

• Blockchain data for the Music Industry

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Seminars, Short Courses, and Presentations

1995

• Resource Discovery Technologies (Seminar), Commonwealth Government Internet Reference Group, February 1995
• The babyOIL System (Presentation), Windows Pacific Computer Association Group Meeting, February 1995
• API for WWW Scripts (Workshop), DSTC Advanced WWW Workshop, March 1995
• Internet Resource Discovery with babyOIL (Seminar), Bond University, May 1995
• BabyOIL Resource Discovery System (Presentation), INET95, Hawaii, USA, June 1995
• Introduction to C++ Course (Workshop), DSTC April & November 1995

1996

• The OIL Project Update (Presentation), 2nd Resource Discovery Workshop, Melbourne, March 1996
• Uniform Resource Names and Characteristics (Presentation), 1st Australian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, March 1996
• Dublin Core Down Under (Presentation), 2nd International Dublin Core Workshop, Warwick, UK, April 1996
• URN Developments at DSTC (Presentation), URN Architecture Group Meeting, Los Alamos, USA, April 1996
• URCs - Silverlining for URNs (Panel Session), 5th International WWW Conference, Paris, France, May 1996
• Metadata and Resource Discovery Technologies (Presentation), Education Network Australia (EdNA) Technical Workshop, Melbourne, June 1996
• Government Information Access (Presentation), Australian Government Search Workshop, Canberra, September 1996
• Resource Discovery in Large Scale Environments (Panel Session), 2nd Distributed Systems Solutions Event, Gold Coast, October 1996
• Internet Resource Discovery Technologies (Seminar), Telstra Research Laboratories, Melbourne, October 1996
• Government Information Access Architecture (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, October 1996
• Content Discovery on the Web (Presentation), W3C in Australia Day, Melbourne, October 1996
• Networked Government Information Access Architecture (Seminar), DSTO, Adelaide, November 1996
• Networked Government Information Access Architecture (Seminar), University of South Australia, Adelaide, November 1996
• Resource Discovery and Government Information (Seminar), MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Boston, USA, December 1996

1997

• PICS for Search Engines (Presentation), PICS in Australia Day, Melbourne, February 1997
• Dublin Core Extensibility (Presentation), 4th International Dublin Core Workshop, Canberra, March 1997
• Australian Metadata Developments (Presentation), International Metadata Seminar, Canberra, March 1997
• Resource Discovery - Why Can't I Find Anything on the Web? (Panel Session), 1st Australian WWW Technical Conference, Brisbane, May 1997
• Metadata on the Internet (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, May 1997
• Metadata to Catalogue the Internet (Presentation), QUESTNet97 Conference, Brisbane, July 1997
• Metadata and Internet Searching (Tutorial), QUESTNet97 Conference, Brisbane, July 1997
• Using XML to Describe and Find Web Objects (Presentation), SGML/XML Asia Pacific Conference, Sydney, Sept 1997
• Dublin Core Metadata (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Sept 1997
• Advanced Web Research in Australia (Presentation), AusWeb97 Conference, Gold Coast, July 1997
• Overview of RDF, German Metadata Workshop, Osnabruck, October 1997
• Stockholm Metadata Seminar, Royal University of Technology Stockholm (KTH), October 1997
• RDF and Dublin Core, 5th Dublin Core Workshop, Helsinki, October 1997
• Day in the Life of Metadata (Seminar), Sydney, Melbourne, November 1997
• Metadata and the Internet (Presentation), State Library of Queensland Metadata Seminar, Brisbane, December 1997
• Web Developments (Presentation), Information Industries Board, Brisbane, November 1997

1998

• Robots to Knowbots: The Potential and the Reality (Panel), Victorian Association for Library Automation (VALA) 1998 Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 28-30 January 1998
• Seamless Access to Government Services - The Technology (Presentation), Information Policy Branch, Brisbane, March 1998
• Single Entry Point of all Levels of Government Information (Presentation), 4th Electronic Data Management Conference, Sydney, March 1998
• Metadata on the Internet (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, April 1998
• Government Information Navigation (Presentation and Panel) Information Planning Branch, April 1998
• Distributed Search Architectures - An Australian Perspective (Invited Presentation), The 7th MODELS Workshop, Bath, UK, May 1998
• On Overview of the Resource Description Framework (Invited Presentation and Panel), The 7th MODELS Workshop, Bath, UK, May 1998
• Day in the Life of Metadata (Seminar), Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, May 1998
• Web Metadata (Tutorial), 7th International Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, April 1998
• International Metadata Day (Chair), 7th International Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, April 1998
• RDF Developers Day (Presentation), 7th International Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, April 1998
• RDF and XML - The Promise and the Reality (Panel), 7th International Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, April 1998
• Metadata and Networked Information Management (Invited Talk), 21st ACS West Australian Branch Conference, Perth, May 1998
• Overview of RDF, ISO Metadata Meeting, Brisbane, July 1998
• Government Metadata Technologies (Presentation), FLIN Metadata Workshop, Canberra, August 1998
• Metadata on the Internet (Tutorial), 21st International ACM SIGIR Conference, Melbourne, August 1998
• W3C Resource Description Framework (Presentation), German Metadata W3C Workshop, Oldenburg, September 1998.
• Metadata for Networked Resources (Seminar), 2nd European Conference on Digital Libraries, Crete, Greece, September 1998.
• Ecommerce Metadata (Seminar), Brisbane, October 1998
• RDF: The Promise of Web Metadata using XML (Presentation), SGML/XML Asia Pacific Conference, Sydney, October 1998
• Metadata on the Internet (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, October 1998
• Internet Metadata (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, October 1998
• Australian Government Metadata (Presentation), 6th Dublin Core Workshop, Washington, November 1998
• Day in the Life of Metadata (Seminar), CommerceNet Singapore Seminar, Singapore, November 1998
• Metadata...Some Ideas (Presentation), EdNA Workshop, Adelaide, December 1998

1999

• DSTC Metadata Technologies (Demonstration), Online99 Conference, Sydney, January 1999
• The Promise and Reality of RDF (Invited talk), IuK99 International Conference, Jena, Germany, March 1999.
• Metadata (Invited talk), IIM Western Regional Conference, Perth, March 1999.
• Metadata: Not a Science - A Business Imperative (Workshop), IIM Western Regional Conference, Perth, March 1999.
• Metadata on the Internet (Invited Lecture), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, May 1999
• Metadata: Managing Your Digital Resources (Workshop), DSTC Day In the Life Seminar, Sydney, Melbourne, June 1999.
• Managing the Digital World with Metadata (Talk), DSTC Enterprise Day, Sydney, June 1999
• Metadata: Managing Your Digital Resources (Workshop), CommerceNet Singapore Seminar, Singapore, July 1999.
• Resource Description Framework, Internet Metadata and Search Engines (Master of Science in Internet Computing Lecture Module), Visiting Lecturer, University of Hong Kong, October 1999.
• Agent Qualifier Proposal, 7th Dublin Core International Workshop, Frankfurt, Germany, October 1999.
• W3C Metadata and Schema Standards - XML and RDF, Advances in International Metadata and Database Standards (Seminar), ISO SC32 Data Management and Interchange Group, Standards Australia, Sydney, December 1999

2000

• Digital Rights Management (Presentation). Australian Publishers Association Electronic Publishing Committee Seminar, Sydney Convention Centre, 14 June 2000
• Digital Rights Down Under (Invited Presentation). E-Book 2000 Conference, Washington DC, USA, 25-27 September 2000.

2001

• Digital Rights Management (Invited Talk). SOCCI Mini Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 7-8 February 2001
• Your contents, Your rights: Digital rights management technologies (Invited Talk), Elsevier Science and Macquarie University Library Seminar on "Managing Content And Services In The Digital Environment", PowerHouse Museum, Sydney, 18 April 2001
• Resource Description Framework, Internet Metadata and Search Engines (Master of Science in Internet Computing Lecture Module), Visiting Lecturer, University of Hong Kong, May 2001.
• Digital Rights Management on the Web (Presentation), 10th International WWW Conference, Hong Kong, 1-5 May 2001
• Management of Rights in a Digital World (Keynote), Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Conference, University of Sydney, 12-16 June 2001
• Digital Rights Management and MPEG (Invited Talk), CSIRO Workshop Series on "Intelligent Repurposing of Video and Audio Assets", Macquarie University, 14 June 2001
• Digital Rights Management (Invited Talk), University of Queensland Library Future Focus Seminar, The University of Queensland, 11 July 2001
• Ebooks, Rights and Paper (Invited Talk), New Possibilities for Paper International Conference, University of the Sunshine Coast, 13-15 July 2001
• Open E-Book Digital Rights Management Standards (Keynote), Open Publish Conference, Sydney, Australia, 30 July - 2 August 2001
• Digital Rights Management Architectures (Invited Talk), COLIS Workshop, Macquarie University, September 2001
• Get the Right Metadata: Managing rights holder's syndicated content (Invited Talk). XML Asia Pacific 8th Annual Conference, Sydney, 6 - 8 November 2001

2002

• Digital Rights Management and Online Learning Environments (Invited Talk). Joint CAUL, CAUDIT, NCODE Flexible Learning Australasia Workshop on Online Learning and Information Environments, Sydney, Australia, 20 February 2002
• Digital Rights Management in the Higher Education Environment (Invited Talk). Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) Industry Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 22 February 2002
• Digital Rights Management and Digital Repositories (Invited Talk). IMS Open Technical Forum, Sydney, Australia, 27 February 2002
• ODRL - The Language for DRMS (Invited Talk). Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMS) and Public Interests Symposium, Baker and McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. Sydney, Australia, 18 March 2002
• Digital Rights Management in a Higher Education Standards Framework (Invited Talk). Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) Standards Subcommittee Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 5 April 2002
• Internet Metadata (Master of Science in Internet Computing Lecture Module), Visiting Lecturer, University of Hong Kong, April 2002.
• Metadata and Digital Rights Management (Invited Talk). The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 16 April 2002
• Emerging Metadata Content and Architectures (Invited Talk). HERO Project. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 20 April 2002
• The Open Digital Rights Language (Invited Talk). Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) Meeting, Newbury, United Kingdom, 7-8 May 2002
• The Business of Rights Language Standards: The ODRL Story... (Invited Talk). Slattery's Internet Watch Seminar Series 2002 on Digital Rights Management, Sydney, 15 May 2002
• Your Rights to Rights. Second OzeCulture Conference, Sydney, 28-30 May 2002
• Digital Rights Management in Higher Education: The Road Ahead. Univeristy of Melbourne (Seminar) Melbourne, 11 July 2002
• Digital Rights Management and Publishing Standards (Keynote). OpenPublish 2002 Asia Pacific Conference, 29 July - 1 August 2002, Sydney
• Open Digtial Rights Language (ODRL) Overview. OpenEbook Forum Rights & Rules Working Group Meeting San Jose (USA), 12-13 August 2002
• The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) and OEBF. Association of American Publishers Emerging Technologies Committee Meeting, 18 Sep 2002, New York, USA
• Digital Rights Management: The Story So Far... Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Board Meeting, 16 November 2002, Sydney

2003

• New Technologies for eBooks, eLearning, eEverything (Invited Address), International Conference on the Future of the Book. Cairns, Australia, 22-24 April 2003.
• XML and Internet Metadata (Master of Science in Internet Computing Lecture Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, August and November 2003.

2004

• Digital Rights Frameworks: From eLearning to Mobile (Invited Talk). Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Lecture Series on Electronic Commerce and New Media. Vienna, 26 April 2004
• Mobile Digital Rights Management (Invited Seminar). RSISE, Australian National University, 13 October 2004
• Digital Rights Management: From Mobile to Internet. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2004-2005) , Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 12 November 2004
• XML and Internet Metadata (Master of Science in Internet Computing Lecture Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2004.
• DRM Technologies: Felixibility and Interoperability (Invited Talk). Unlocking IP Conference, 18-19 November, 2004, University of NSW, Sydney.

2005

• A Profile of Creative Commons in ODRL (Invited Talk). Open Content Licencing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons Conference, QUT, Brisbane, 18-19 January 2005.
• Perspectives on DRM & ODRL Profiles. Open GeoSpatial Consortium Meeting, GeoDRM Working Group. Frascati, Italy, 4-8 April 2005.
• Applying DRM to Mobile Content (Invited Panel). Mobile Content World Conference, 11-12 May 2005, Sydney.
• The impact of DRM Patents on REL Research and Standards (Panel). Second International ODRL Workshop, 7-8 July 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Information Infrastructure Management and Protection (panel session). eSecurity Australia Briefing. 7 Oct 2005, Brisbane, Australia
• Information in Disaster Prediction, Response and Recovery (invited talk). Queensland Tropical Cyclone Coordination Committee, 19 October 2005, Mackay, Queensland.
• A Brief History of Rights Expression Languages (Invited Talk). First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems Sydney, Australia, 31 October - 2 November 2005
• Technologies in Emergency and Technology Management. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2005-2006) , Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 7 November 2005
• XML and Internet Metadata (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2005.
• Technological Challenges for Creative Commons Digital Licenses (Invited Talk) 12th Biennial Copyright Law and Practice Symposium Sydney, Australia, 17-18 November 2005

2006

• Digital License Management in the Open Environment (Invited Talk). Open Repositories 2006: Managing Openness in Digital Repositories Symposium. Sydney, Australia, 2-3 February 2006
• Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery (Briefing). Government Technology World Conference, Canberra, 5-6 April 2006
• Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery (Briefing). CeBIT, Sydney, 9-11 May 2006
• Smart Applications For Emergencies: Decisions (invited talk). Extreme Events, NSW Fire Brigrade, 23 June 2006, Sydney
• ODRL Profile for GeoDRM Reference Model (talk). Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Meeting 26-29 June, Edinburgh
• Getting the Message Across - Sharing Warnings (Invited Talk). OASIS/ITU Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning, Geneva, 19-20 Oct 2006
• Towards The Policy-Aware Web. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2006-2007) , Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 10 November 2006
• XML and Internet Metadata (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2006.
• Smart Applications for Emergencies: PhD Research (Keynote Address). 2006 Science, Technology and Economic Progress (STEP) Forum, University of Canberra, 3 to 8 December 2006
• Policy-driven Document Rights Management (Invited Talk). IXC Australia Blue Sky Fourm on Document Secuirty Issues and Opportunities. Canberra, 6 December 2006

2007

• New Technologies for Emergency Messaging (Invited Talk). National Forum on Emergency Warnings to the Community - Emergency Management Australia, 29-30 March 2007, Adelaide.
• Safety and Security: Smart Applications For Emergencice (Briefing). CeBIT, Sydney, 1-3 May 2007
• Future Document Rights Management (Talk). Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, 9 May 2007
• Crisis Information Management Systems for Hazard Information Sharing (Presentation). Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference 2007, Brisbane, Australia, 2-3 July 2007.
• Web Standards Experiences (Presentation). NICTA/CSIRO Web Standards Symposium, Canberra, 28 August 2007
• The Policy-Aware Web (Invited Talk). W3C SIG Day, Web Directions Conference, Sydney, 26 Sept 2007
• Web 2.0: From the Hype to the Reality. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2007-2008) , Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 15 November 2007
• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2007.
• Technology Directions for the Policy-Aware Web (Invited Seminar). University of Trento, Italy, 9 Oct 2007

2008

• Emergency Messaging Standards. Emergency Management Australia Common Alerting Protocol Seminar. 11 Feb 2008, Canberra.
• Emergency Messaging Information Standards. National Forum on Emergency Warnings to the Community. 12-13 Feb 2008, Brisbane.
• Standards and Interoperability for Crisis Information. AFAC CIO Workshop. Gold Coast, 19 Feb 2008
• Crisis information interoperability, higher capacity wireless mesh networks and other new technologies. APCO Australia Conference and Exhibition, Gold Coast, 18-20 Feb 2008
• Web 2.0 Reality: Cutting through the Hype (Seminar). The University of Trento, Italy, 27 Feb 2008
• Towards the Policy-Aware Web: The Real Web 3.0? (Panel Chair). 17th International World Wide Web Conference, 21-25 April 2008, Beijing China.
• Collaboration in a Policy-Aware Web (Invited Talk). CRC Association Conference, 21-23 May 2008, Sydney, Australia.
• Emergency 2.0 - An Emerging Phenomenon for Crisis Management (Invited Talk). Korea Australia New Zealand (KANZ) Broadband Summit. 19-20 June 2008, Seoul, Korea
• Emergency 2.0: From Standards to Social Networking (Keynote Address). Joint ISCRAM-CHINA and GI4DM Conference onInformation Systems for Crisis Management, 4-6 August 2008, Harbin, China
• The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods (Keynote). 6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop. 16-18 Oct 2008, Poznan, Poland
• Government with its head in the Cloud (Panel member). BrisbaneICT Hypothetical Series, Brisbane 6 Nov 2008
• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2008.

2009

• Towards a National Emergency Warning Framework. APCO Australia Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, 2-4 March 2009
• The Common Alerting Protocol. National Designshop - Scaled Bushfire Advice and Warnings. 3-5 August 2009, Melbourne
• Opening up Social Networks: Breaking down the Walled-Gardens (Invited Talk, W3C Track). Web Directions South Conference, October 6 - 9 2009, Sydney, Australia
• Web 2.0 Technology Drivers for eGovernment participation and sharing. Public Sector ICT Fourm, Sydney, 6-7 November 2009
• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, November 2009
• Opening up Social Networks: Breaking down the Walled-Gardens. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2009-2010) , Admiralty Centre, Hong Kong, 11 November 2009
• Connecting Doctors and Patients the Social Networks Way (Invited Talk). Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) Queensland. Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Brisbane. 17 Nov 2009

2010

• Adding Privacy Support to a Rights Language. Dagstuhl Seminar - Distributed Usage Control - Wadern, Germany - 6-9 April 2010
• Profiles, Privacy, Permissions: Social Networks Mayhem? IBM Research Labs, Zurich, Switzerland, 12 April 2010
• Privacy...Going, Going, Gone? (Panel Moderator) 9TH IFIP Human Choice and Computers International Conference at the World Computer Congress, 20-23 September 2010, Brisbane, Australia
• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Sept/Oct 2010
• Web 3.0: The Future is Semantic (Guest Lecture). Digital Environments Major, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 11 Oct 2010

2011

• Show Me the Semantics (Invited Keynote) Meta2011 Conference. 25-27 May, Canberra, Australia

• Communicating Semantics Successfully (Invited Talk) PR 3.0: Web 3.0 and the Future of Social Media Forum. Sydney, Australia, 15-17 Aug 2011
• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Sept 2011

2012

• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct/Nov 2012
• Sharing Personally Controlled eHealth Records. Hong Kong University ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2012-2013), Hong Kong, 31 October 2012

2013

• Rights to Polices Opening the Adaptive Web. (Keynote Address), Virtual Goods + ODRL Workshop at Informatik 2012, Koblenz Germany, 16-20 Sep 2013

• Internet Information Engineering (Master of Science in Internet Computing Module), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2013

2014

• A day in the life of eHealth Technologies. Hong Kong University Experts Address Series, Hong Kong, 20 March 2014
• eHealth Information Technologies (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, March 2014
• Information Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2014

2015

• Collective Intelligence, CIO Summit, Gold Coast, 3-5 August 2015
• Data Driven Disruption: A road to Collective Intelligence?. Hong Kong University Experts Address Series, Hong Kong, 14 October 2015
• Information Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2015

2016

• Digital ContractsL The new economy disruptor. Hong Kong University Experts Address Series, Hong Kong, 12 October 2016
• Semantic Data Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2016

2017

• Semantic Data Architecture for Linked Open Data, Open Data Institute (Australia). Brisbane 13 July 2017
• Semantic Data Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2017
• Linked Open Data: Semantics at Global Scale. Hong Kong University Experts Address Series, Hong Kong, 18 October 2017
• Linked Open Data: Semantic Data Architectures. Queensland Department of Innovation, 23 August 2017

2018

• Semantic Data Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Adjunct Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2018
• Healthcare Data Maturity: From Data Lake to Data Wharf to Data Marina. Health Informatics Conference (HIC2018) Sydney, 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2019

2019

• Driving Data Governance through Transparency and and effective Data Platform. Data Management and Security for Government, Canberra, 26-28 feb 2019
• Semantic Data Architecture (Master of Science in Internet Computing Course), Adjunct Professor, University of Hong Kong, Oct 2019
  

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Personal Activities

• Treasurer, University of South Australia Hockey Club, 1988
• Foundation President, Bond University Hockey Club, 1991-92
• Foundation Executive Member, Bond University Sports Association, 1993
• Member, RSPCA QLD, 2000-
• Member, WWF, 2000-
• Member, Animals Australia, 2010-
• Voting Member, Choice Australia, 2019-