Ron Chernich
	Position: Phone: Fax: Email: Affiliations:	Principal Research Fellow, School of ITEE Level 7, GP South, Staff House Rd, The University of Queensland QLD, 4072, AUSTRALIA +61 7 3365 4534 +61 7 3365 4999 chernich@itee.uq.edu.au Data and Knowledge Engineering, Engineering manager of eResearch group

Ron is a Principal Research Fellow working with the eResearch Unit of the Engineering, Architecture, and Information Technology (EAIT) school of the University of Queensland. Ron has over 30 years of experience in IT working in Australia and overseas in commercial software development. On returning to Australia from the USA in 1998, Ron joined the Co-operative Research Centre for Distributed Systems (DSTC) at the University of Queensland as the Director of Engineering. He remained with them until the the Centre closed in June 2006, driving the development of commercial grade products from DSTC research outcomes. These included dCON, a Java implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) cosNotification specification for asynchronous messaging, and MetaSuite, a complete solution for schema independent metadata incorporating discovery, editing, validation, searching, and retrieval. Both systems attracted commercial users in Australia and overseas. Ron's current research projects and interests are:

• Danno/Dannotate: tools for annotating HTML pages and images. The client is fully light-weight and browser neutral (no mean feat for IE!)
• Metadata Editor (MDE): a schema driven metadata editor using a fully light weight web 2.0 client.
• Virgil: Capture and replay of Access Grid sessions.
• Metadata management. Click here for a paper describing the metadata tools developed by DSTC.
• RCOS: Ron Chernich's Operating System
• RDBMan: A tool for managing infra-red remote control code sets created by Phillips Pronto Edit Professional
• TagSuite: A GUI editor and automated creator for ID3 "TAG" files used by the Netgear Digital Entertainer series, written in Perl. Includes standalone TagMaker and TagEdit versions (see below)
• The m2ts file format used by Blu Ray BDMV discs does not include explicit run time metadata. Finding it requires fully stepping through every 192 byte block in the file which can take an unacceptable time in languages like Perl. This demonstration module, based on a suggestion by Phil Harvey of Exiftool fame, shows how a "probably correct" answer can be found very quickly.