Jeff Joslin
Team Leader
Ontario, Canada
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Jeff and Brian came up with the original idea of organizing the
loose collection of folks who were collecting patent data
for old tools and machines, and providing them a way
to organize and present their data such that it could be
easily stored and searched.
Jeff is also the ace data steward, who uses a series
of custom-built PERL scripts to do bulk downloads of patent
data from the USPTO and massage them into DATAMP format.
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Brian Pennington
Team Leader
Egypt (By way of Kansas)
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As mentioned above, DATAMP is basically Brian and Jeff's
brainchild. The two of them got us all started, and provided
critical direction in the early days.
One of Brian's most important contributions to
the original DATAMP plan was to figure out exactly
what data we needed to collect, and how it was
organized. He also wrote an excellent article on
online patent searching for the EAIA, which is now
part of the data steward FAQ.
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Keith Rucker
Site Manager
Georgia, USA
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Keith is the developer and host of the Old Woodworking Machines
web site, and our Win32 deployment expert.
In addition to providing us a nice web home for DATAMP,
Keith handles all of the day-to-day maintenance of the
site, and is the creator of the DATAMP web interface.
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Steve Reynolds
Patent Expert
Delaware, USA
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Steve is a listowner of the OldTools list, and a well
known poster there. He also has been doing patent research
professionally for many years, and knows more about USPTO
and patent arcana than any human being should.
Steve helped us out immensely with the "rules" of
patents and classification, which was instrumental
in the development of our data model. He also is
the author of the DATAMP FAQ.
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Chris Swingley
Deployment Expert
Alaska, USA
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Chris is the host of the OldTools archive, a certified
PHP whiz, and a linux/web deployment expert.
Chris helped us settle on a portable architecture
based on MySql and PHP, and worked with us to make
sure that the code could be deployed on Linux servers
for archival and mirroring.
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Ed Fisher
SQL Diety
California, USA
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Ed was recruited for the team early on, when we
realized that the DATAMP DB was way more complex
than anything any of us had ever worked on before.
Ed is a SQL expert, and was instrumental in designing
the data structure and queries that make DATAMP run.
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Ralph Brendler
Geek
Illinois, USA
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Somebody has to actually write the code,
and that's Ralph's job. Ralph is a professional
programmer with lots of XML and web development
experience, but little or no database or deployment
background. Along the way, Ralph had to pick up PHP, SQL,
cURL, and a host of other things with acronyms.
Ralph is responsible for the "glue" that takes the
information in the database and displays it to the user.
If something doesn't work, it is undoubtedly his fault.
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Russ Allen
Programmer
Illinois, USA
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Russ is a late addition to the team. He is a
computer programmer by trade whose experience is the opposite of Ralph's- heavier on the database and lighter on XML.
Russ is responsible for stretching Ralph's code
in ways he never imagined! Any new features or bugs are evidence that Russ has
been playing around again.
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