The SSI Orbit Podcast – Self-Sovereign Identity, Decentralization and Digital Trust

#6 - The Importance of Data Inputs and Semantics for SSI with Paul Knowles from Human Colossus Foundation

Apr 1, 2021

50:09

In today’s episode, I talk about the importance of data inputs and semantics with joined by Paul Knowles, an individual who defines himself as a semantic nerd.

- How Paul leverages his 25 years of experience as a data semantics expert in the Pharma industry for decentralized identity
- The Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy
- The Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA)
- Community involvement at the Trust Over IP Foundation, Sovrin Foundation, MyData Global and more!--

Paul Knowles has a degree in Information Business Systems Technology from the University of Essex in Colchester, UK.

His reputation as a data semantics expert and innovator has been established through a 25-year career in pharmaceutical biometrics where he has worked with companies including Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen and Pfizer.

In terms of decentralized data initiatives, Paul is the innovation lead behind the Master Mouse Model (MMM), a conceptual model for a Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy. He is also the inventor of the Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) and the main spearhead behind the Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT), both of which facilitate a unified data language so that harmonized data can be utilized by dynamic data sharing hubs for improved data science, statistics, analytics and other meaningful services.

Paul is the Head of the Advisory Council at Human Colossus Foundation, a convener of the ToIP Inputs & Semantics WG, Head of Communications at Sovrin Foundation, a co-lead of the Covid Credentials Initiative’s “Use Case Implementation” workstream, a co-founder of MyData Health and an active contributing member at MyData Global and Kantara Initiative.

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