User:Cloud~metawiki
John Breslin is co-founder of Ireland's largest discussion community boards.ie, where he is known as Cloud. He has also built bulletin board sites for other countries such as Japan (boards.jp), the US (boards.us) and New Zealand (boards.co.nz). In 2005, he set up blog aggregators for both Ireland and New Zealand, known as Planet of the Blogs and Generation Blog respectively.
John is a postdoctoral researcher at the Semantic Web Cluster, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of a number of research publications into the areas of social networks and semantically-enabled online communities (see SIOC). In September 2004, he was an organiser of the 1st Workshop on Friend Of A Friend, Social Networks and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway).
At Wikimania, John is presenting a paper entitled WikiOnt: An Ontology for Describing and Exchanging Wiki Articles.