Jeni Tennison

Jenifer Fay Alys Tennison OBE[2] is a British software engineer who is currently Chief Executive Officer at the Open Data Institute.[4]

Jeni Tennison

OBE
Tennison in 2009, picture by Paul Downey
Born
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
Known forWork on legislation.gov.uk and Data.gov.uk
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisLiving ontologies : collaborative knowledge structuring on the Internet (1999)
Doctoral advisorNigel Shadbolt[1]
Websitejenitennison.com

Education

Tennison was born in Cambridge, England[5] and educated at the University of Nottingham gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1994[6][7] and a PhD in collaborative ontology development in 1999,[1] supervised by Nigel Shadbolt.

Career

Tennison has been the technical architect and lead developer for legislation.gov.uk and previously worked on the linked data aspects of data.gov.uk. Previously, she was self-employed as a consultant.[8]

Tennison has authored or co-authored several papers[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and books including Beginning XSLT 2.0,[18] XSLT and XPath on the Edge[19] and Professional XML Schemas.[20] Tennison was an invited expert on the XSL and XML Processing Working Groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was appointed to the W3C's Technical Architecture Group in 2011. She has previously worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation[21] and Epistemics Ltd.[6]

Awards and honours

Tennison was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)[2] in the 2014 New Year Honours[2][22] for services to Technology and Open Data.[2][23]

References
  1. Tennison, Jenifer Fay Alys (1999). Living ontologies : collaborative knowledge structuring on the Internet (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 50070543. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.285681.
  2. Anon (2013) "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 14.
  3. Koesten, Laura M.; Kacprzak, Emilia; Tennison, Jenifer F. A.; Simperl, Elena (2017). "The Trials and Tribulations of Working with Structured Data". CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 1277–1289. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025838. ISBN 9781450346559.
  4. "Open Data Institute Team: Jeni Tennison". The Open Data Institute. 2013. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
  5. Elliott, Chris (1 January 2014). "Honour from Queen for Cambridge technologist Jeni Tennison welcomed by World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
  6. Tennison, Jeni (2014). "Jeni Tennison LinkedIn profile". linkedin.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
  7. Hardy, B. J.; Doughty, S. W.; Parretti, M. F.; Richards, W.; Tennison, J. (1997). "First Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society Electronic Conference". Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 15 (2): 141–144. doi:10.1016/S1093-3263(97)81619-1. PMID 9385562.
  8. Anon (2017). "Jenifer Fays Alys TENNISON". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 21 November 2017.
  9. Jeni Tennison author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  10. Jeni Tennison at DBLP Bibliography Server
  11. "Jeni Tennison's publications". scholar.google.com. Google Scholar.
  12. Jeni Tennison publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. Lumley, J.; Tennison, J. (2006). "XSLT working session". Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Document engineering - DocEng '06. p. 1. doi:10.1145/1166160.1166161. ISBN 978-1595935151.
  14. Tennison, J. (2006). "Processing XML documents with pipelines". Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Document engineering - DocEng '06. p. 91. doi:10.1145/1166160.1166163. ISBN 978-1595935151.
  15. o’Hara, K.; Shadbolt, N.; Tennison, J. (2000). "Certifying KBSs: Using CommonKADS to Provide Supporting Evidence for Fitness for Purpose of KBSs". Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1937. p. 419. doi:10.1007/3-540-39967-4_32. ISBN 978-3-540-41119-2.
  16. Tennison, J.; O'Hara, K.; Shadbolt, N. (2002). "APECKS: Using and evaluating a tool for ontology construction with internal and external KA support". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 56 (4): 375–422. doi:10.1006/ijhc.2002.1000.
  17. Thompson, H. S.; Rees, J.; Tennison, J. (2013). "URIs in data: for entities, or for descriptions of entities—A critical analysis". Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference on - WebSci '13. p. 479. doi:10.1145/2464464.2532514. ISBN 9781450318891.
  18. Tennison, Jeni (2005). Beginning XSLT 2.0: From Novice to Professional (2nd Revised ed.). Berkeley, CA : New York: Springer. ISBN 9781590593240.
  19. Tennison, Jeni (2001). XSLT and XPath On The Edge (Unlimited ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley / M&T Books. ISBN 9780764547768.
  20. Duckett, Jon; Nik Ozu; Kevin Williams; Stephen Mohr; Kurt Cagle; Oliver Griffin; Francis Norton; Ian Stokes-Rees; Jeni Tennison (2001). Professional XML Schemas. Birmingham, UK : Chicago, IL: WROX Press Ltd. ISBN 9781861005472.
  21. Tennison, Jeni (2013). "Jeni Tennison at OKFN". Open Knowledge Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
  22. Thwaites, Emma (30 December 2013). "ODI celebrates New Year OBE for Technical Director, Jeni Tennison". The Open Data Institute. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
  23. Franzon, Eric (30 December 2003). "ODI celebrates New Year OBE for Technical Director, Jeni Tennison". SemanticWeb.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
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