Dame Lynne J Brindley, DBE
Chief Executive, British Library
Dame Lynne Brindley has been the Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. She has led a major strategic development and modernisation programme to ensure that the British Library remains relevant, innovative and accessible in the 21st century.
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist, Talis
Richard has been with the UK’s leading and Semantic Web technology company, Talis, for over twenty years. This coupled with his passion for and engagement with new and emerging technology trends, gives him a unique perspective of the issues challenging Information professionals today. As Technology Evangelist he is at the forefront in promoting, explaining, and applying new and emerging Web and Semantic Web technologies in the wider information domain. Richard is an active blogger and regular podcaster in the Talking with Talis series.
Adrian Stevenson
UKOLN, University of Bath
Adrian is Project Manager and Technical Researcher at UKOLN, a centre of excellence in web and digital information technology research based at the University of Bath in the UK. He is currently managing the LOCAH Linked Data project. LOCAH is a JISC funded project to make the Archives Hub and Copac national data services available as structured Linked Data, for the benefit of education and research.
Phil John
Capita Software Services
Antoine Isaac
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Antoine works as scientific coordinator for Europeana and researcher in the Web an Media group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has been investigating and promoting the use of Semantic Web technology in the Cultural Heritage environment since his PhD studies in Computer Science at the Université Paris IV Sorbonne and the Institut national de l’audiovisuel. His work focuses especially on the representation and interoperability of collections and their vocabularies (STITCH, TELplus and EuropeanaConnect projects). He has been a member of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, where he was mostly involved in the design of SKOS. He is currently serving as co-chair of the W3C Library Linked Data incubator group and SKOS community contact.
Neil Wilson
British Library
Neil Wilson leads the Metadata Services team in the Operations and Services Directorate of The British Library. The team includes specialists in metadata standards, systems and production and supports a variety of free and priced metadata services operated by the Library including the British National Bibliography, the BL’s Electronic Table of Contents article database and the Allied & Complimentary Medicine Database. Neil is a qualified librarian with experience of managing national and international development projects relating to the use of metadata in libraries and resource discovery systems.
Rob Styles
Senior Technical Consultant, Talis
Rob has been developing Linked Data solutions since 2004 and has worked on projects for both US and UK governments and high profile organisations like the BBC. He enjoys sharing knowledge and helping teams develop their own skills to become self-sufficient. Rob is passionate about all things that make technology successful, sometimes that’s big architectural decisions, sometimes it’s the user experience, sometimes it’s a few lines of code that are crucial — always it’s the people.
Lightening Talks
There will be four lightening talks on the agenda, presented by:
- Carsten Keßler, University of Münster
- Owen Stephens, Owen Stephens Consulting
- Jochen Schirrwagen, Universität Bielefeld
- Jerry Persons, Stanford University
