Sofia Zapounidou is a librarian working for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Library & Information Centre, and a member of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group. Her main duties at the library involved the website and web-scale discovery services. Sofia also advocates for open access and open science strategies by researching, publishing papers and organizing…
Maral is a postdoctoral researcher at the Web-based Information Systems and Services Group at Stuttgart Media University in Germany, and a member of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group. “I am currently the contextualization team leader in FID-Judaica, a national funded project, which aims to create a specialized knowledge-base in LOD format for enrichment of…
Hannes is Metadata Manager at the Royal Library of Belgium, and a member of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group. He is currently responsible for the implementation of a new Library Management System, which will help the library to improve its metadata. In addition to his work with metadata, Hannes has a Phd in medieval…
Helena is the Director of the Special Collections Services at the National Library of Portugal since 2012: in charge of the National Digital Library and managing several national and European digitisation projects. She is also a member of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group. She graduated in Law in 1996 and obtained her post-graduate degree…
David Hansson is a system developer at Karolinska Institutet University Library in Sweden, and a member of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group. He is involved in different systems and projects, including the KI Open Archive: a system where you may openly publish articles. We need to enhance our knowledge about combining data in several…
Lars Burman is Director of Uppsala University Library in Sweden and, since 2018, a member of LIBER’s Executive Board. Prior to this he was a Professor of Comparative Literature at Uppsala University and head of the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. He has spent longer periods of research and teaching abroad in locations including…
Dr Charlotte Wien is Professor of Scholarly Communication at the University Library of Southern Denmark and chair of LIBER’s Innovative Metrics Working Group. She holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science and is Head of Research and Analysis, Head of Research Services and Head of Library, Campus Copenhagen at The University Library of Southern…
Development Manager Mikko Lappalainen has a background in humanities, with a strong interest in making humanities relevant in the digital age. Mikko has worked in various positions in The National Library of Finland, developing linked open data technologies in the past five years. Mikko is the project Manager of the Finto ontology project that develops an ecosystem…
Matias Frosterus is chair of LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group, and works as an information systems manager at the National Library of Finland. His main responsibility is coordinating and developing the big picture of the National Library’s metadata services including the national thesaurus and ontology service Finto. Finto provides a centralized repository of various machine-readable…
Siobhán Dunne is Head of Teaching, Research and User Experience at The Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. Here she leads the library’s user experience strategy and is working with a team of library researchers to better understand the research needs of staff and students. Siobhán has been Chair of CONUL (Consortium…
Philipp Conzett is a Senior Research Librarian at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His background is in Nordic Linguistics, and since 2014 he has been developing and running support services for research data management at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His university library is also planning to develop support services for Digital Humanities.…