List of External Advisors Vladimir Alexiev Vladimir Alexiev has a PhD in omputing siene from University of Alberta, an MS in omputer siene from Tehnial University Sofia, PMP ertifiation, and a Projet Risk and Quality Management diploma. He has 25 years of IT experiene, inluding 15 years of IT PM experiene and 4 years of experiene with semanti tehnologies. He is one of the founders of Sirma Group Holding, the largest Bulgarian IT group, and the parent ompany of Ontotext. He is a Masters-level leturer in IT PM at New Bulgarian University He has strong experiene with ontology engineering, metadata standards, voabularies and thesauri, RDF, RDFS, OWL2, SKOS, SPARQL, Linked Open Data, mapping, ETL, semanti web appliations, projet management, requirements gathering and business analysis.. In Ontotext he leads the Data and Ontology Management (DOM) group, where he works on a wide range of projets related to ultural heritage, libraries, CIDOC CRM, Europeana, linked open data management, et. He organized a workshop on Pratial Appliations of CIDOC CRM (CRMEX 2013) that will be an annual event. He served in Europeana task fores on EDM-FRBRoo Appliation Profile, Multilingual Enrihment Strategy, and has proposed one on Semanti Repositories and Benhmarking. He has ontributed to the ontology definition of the ISO 25964 standard for thesauri management and is urrently working on onverting the Getty thesauri to LOD. He has partiular interest in the faithful representation of museum, library and arheology data to CIDOC CRM and its extensions, and pratial appliations with suh data. Shu-Jiun (Sophy) Chen Shu-Jiun (Sophy) Chen is the Assistant Researh Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Aademia Sinia, and also the Exeutive Seretary of Aademia Sinia Digital Center. She reeived her MA degree in Information Studies from the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK in 1997, and Ph.D. in Library and Information Siene at the National Taiwan University in 2012. Dr. Chen is also an Adjunt Assistant Professor of the Department of Information and Library Siene, Tamkang University, and the College of Humanities, National Taiwan University of Arts. Her researh interests inlude digital libraries, metadata, knowledge organization, and digital humanities. She has been involved in the development and researh of metadata for over 10 years. She initiated the Researh Projet of Chinese-language AAT (Art & Arhiteture Thesaurus) with the Getty Researh Institute, USA. Her urrent researh projets inlude Constrution and Appliation of Knowledge Organization Systems for Digital Arhives where she explores a semanti approah to digital art history. She has published over 40 artiles in refereed journals and onferene proeedings, and over 60 tehnial reports and invited speehes.
List of External Advisors Page 2 of 7 Massimiliano Condotta Massimiliano Condotta is a researh fellow and Ph.D. andidate in new tehnologies and information for the ity, the region and environment at the University Iuav of Venie, Department of Design and Planning of Complex Environments. He is expert in the appliation of IT tools to arhitetural and urban planning and in Knowledge Management Systems related to arhiteture. Thomas Hänsli Thomas Hänsli studied in Musi, Arhiteture and Art History in Zurih and holds a degree in Arhiteture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tehnology (ETH Zurih). He was a researh assistant in the field of the History of Swiss Modern Arhiteture at the Institute for the History and Theory of Arhiteture (ETH Zurih, 1994-1996). Subsequently, he was a researh assistant and senior researher in the projets Arhitetural theory from the 15th to 18th Century and Arhitetural theory in Germany. 1486 1618/48 (ETH Zurih/Institute gta, until 2009). Thomas Hänsli was leturer for the History of Art and Arhiteture at the Departement Arhiteture (ETH Zurih, 2000-2011) and leturer/assistant at the Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'arhitettura (ISA) of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, 2011-2013). His fields of interest are Early Modern Art and Arhiteture, Illusionisti Painting of the Baroque, the History of Theory of Arhiteture of the Early Modern period and the 20th Century, and Digital Art History. Sine 2011, Thomas Hänsli is the Diretor of the Digitale Diathek [http://digitale-diathek.net] network and in 2013 he was appointed Head of Digital Art History at the Institute for the History and Theory of Arhiteture (ETH Zurih) and the Institute of Art History (University of Zurih). Jay Hoffman Jay Hoffman is the founder and CEO of Gallery Systems, a provider of olletions, exhibitions and onservation management software and servies for the museum and ultural heritage setor. He has worked diretly on information projets with many museums in North Ameria and Europe and is ative in international standards organizations for improving information aess and interhange among museums. Eero Hyvönen Eero Hyvönen is professor of semanti media tehnology at the Aalto University, Department of Media Tehnology, and an adjunt professor of omputer siene at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Siene. He direts the Semanti Computing Researh Group SeCo, speializing on Semanti Web tehnologies and appliations. A major theme in his researh has been development of the national level semanti web infrastruture and its appliation in different areas, with a fous on ultural heritage. Eero Hyvönen has published over 300 researh artiles and books, suh as Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semanti Web (Morgan-Claypool, Palo Alto, 2012). With the
List of External Advisors Page 3 of 7 SeCo group, he has reeived several international and national awards inluding the Semanti Web Challenge Award (twie), World Summit Award (WSA), and Apps4Finland. He is ative on several editorial boards of Semanti Web and has o-haired and partiipated in the programme ommittees dozens of major onferenes. Antoine Isaa Antoine Isaa (Europeana Foundation) works as sientifi oordinator for Europeana.eu. He has been researhing and promoting the use of Semanti Web and Linked Data tehnology in ulture sine his Ph.D. studies at Paris-Sorbonne and the Institut National de l'audiovisuel. He has espeially worked on the representation and interoperability of olletions and their voabularies. Besides his work on SKOS in the Semanti Web Deployment group, he has served in other related W3C efforts, for example on Library Linked Data and Open Annotation. Adrian Kingston Adrian Kingston is Digital Colletions Senior Analyst at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, working on the management and preservation of the Museum s digital olletions and information, development of the Museum's Colletion Information System, working with thesauri and ontrolled voabulary, and promoting Te Papa's olletions and related knowledge in the digital world as effiiently and usefully as possible. Adrian has been at Te Papa sine 2001, working in the Art and Photography olletions before moving into Colletions Information in 2004. Jutta Lindenthal Jutta Lindenthal is an independent information onsultant with a fous on ontrolled voabularies. She holds a degree in semiotis and biology. Sine 1994 she has been working in the field of voabulary development, espeially for ultural heritage institutions. She also oversees the development of voabulary management tools and designs exhange speifiations for ontrolled voabularies. Jutta is a member of the ISO 25964 standard working group and the CIDOC CRM speial interest group. More reently her interest shifted has towards ontologial modeling and appliations in the biomedial domain. Chris MDowall Dr. Chris MDowall is the manager of DigitalNZ systems at the National Library of New Zealand. DigitalNZ harvests metadata from over 140 institutions, maps it to a ommon shema, and exposes it through searh servies and a developer API to make New Zealand's digital ontent easier to find, share, and use. Chris manages DigitalNZ's tehnial operations and feature development. He previously worked as a sientist at the Landare Researh Crown Researh Institute urating national environmental datasets and building ustom visualization tools. Chris has an ative interest in metadata standards, linked data, entity reoniliation, data visualization, and artography.
List of External Advisors Page 4 of 7 Jeff Mixter Jeff Mixter is a Researh Support Speialist at OCLC Researh. He reeived Bahelor Degrees in History and German from The Ohio State University. He reently graduated from Kent State University with a MLIS degree as well as a Masters Degree in Knowledge Management. As part of his studies at Kent State, Jeff onduted researh and published a master's thesis on onverting the VRA 4 data model into an RDF ontology using existing popular ontologies suh as Shema.org and FOAF. Jeff began working at OCLC in 2012 as a Researh Assistant on the FAST (Faeted Appliation of Subjet Terminology) Projet. While working on the projet, Jeff onduted a detailed survey of FAST users that was reently published as an OCLC Report entitled FAST (Faeted Appliation of Subjet Terminology) Users: Summary and Case Studies. Sine July of 2013, Jeff has been working on a MLIS funded grant projet with Kenning Arlitsh to examine how to improve the SEO (Searh Engine Optimization) of digital olletions repositories and institutional repositories. Jeff has also been involved with the CONTENTdm team and is urrently partiipating in the development of a new ontologial data model. Barry Norton Barry Norton is a Development Manager at The British Museum. He manages development for ResearhSpae, a Linked Data-based platform for the arts and ultural heritage domain. He is responsible for the ResearhSpae arhiteture and projet management. This builds on his experiene as Solutions Arhitet with Ontotext, his Ph.D. in Computer Siene from the University of Sheffield, and ten years of researh experiene in Semanti Tehnologies. He ontinues to provide training in the UK and the US on RDF(S), OWL, SPQRQL, REST, graph databases, data integration and solution arhitetures driven by Linked Data. Jao van Ossenbruggen Jao van Ossenbruggen is a omputer sientist with the Information Aess group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatia (CWI) in Amsterdam, and affiliated as an assoiate professor with the Web & Media researh group at VU University in Amsterdam. He has been doing researh in Web-sale data integration for ultural heritage appliations for the last 10 years. Jao was part of the MultimediaN researh team that reated one of the first RDF versions of the Getty Voabularies in 2005, and part of the team that designed the ore of the Europeana Data Model. Etienne Posthumus Etienne Posthumus is an independent Digital Cultural Heritage onsultant speializing in the subjet lassifiation system ICONCLASS. He is trained as a omputer sientist and now helps ultural organizations make the most from their metadata and builds software systems to support these ativities. He built the serendipity engine Arkyves a treasure trove database of ultural heritage ontent used by researh institutes, museums, arhives, libraries, and universities.
List of External Advisors Page 5 of 7 Gregory Reser Greg Reser is a Metadata Speialist at the University of California, San Diego Library where he has worked sine 1997. Trained as an image ataloger and database maintenane manager for the Library s slide/digital image olletion, Greg now works as an analyst for the Digital Objet Metadata Management unit whih provides mapping between metadata formats, funtional speifiations for the UCSD Libraries' DAMS, objet speifiations for migrating data to the DAMS, onsultation on metadata reation for digitization projets, and development of digital preservation metadata. Greg is president of the VRA Southern California Chapter, member of the VRA Data Standards Committee, and hair of the VRA Embedded Metadata working Group. For the past 4 years Greg has been investigating how embedded metadata might be useful in ultural heritage images. He has developed two tools with the goal of making embedded metadata useful and pratial: the VRA ustom info panel for Adobe Photoshop and Bridge and a ompanion export-import JavaSript plugin for Bridge. Greg s latest projet is building a ustom info panel that supports the use of linked open data. Stefan Rohde-Enslin Dr. Stefan Rohde-Enslin is member of the staff of the Institute for Museum-Researh (National Museums of Berlin Foundation Prussian Heritage). In his work he is responsible for all questions regarding digitization and digital preservation from organizing projets, generating funds for digitization, and the full range of planning from tehnial requirements up to philosophial questions and onsiderations. Together with nearly 300 German museums he developed a projet and the software to allow museums to publish museum objet information in the internet in an easy and osteffetive way. This projet has used linked open data for several years. Dr. Stefan Rohde-Enslin is also a member of team in the Institute that is urrently translating the AAT into German. Regine Stein Regine Stein is Head of Information Tehnology at Deutshes Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeshihte - Bildarhiv Foto Marburg. Sine graduating with a degree in mathematis, she has speialized in data mapping and merging from diverse soure databases and aligning them with ontrolled voabularies and authorities, inluding all aspets of semanti interoperability. She has been involved sine 2001 in standardization work for the museum ommunity on German and international level. Regina provides leadership for the development and implementation of LIDO, the CIDOC-CRM based metadata standard for ontributing ultural heritage information to portals, from its beginnings in 2006 to its entralization within CIDOC, the ICOM International Committee for Doumentation, and is hair of the CIDOC Working Group Data Harvesting and Interhange. Managing the aggregation and online publiation of pitorial material related to European art and arhiteture for more than 80 partner institutions, and advaning its ontribution to other online repositories, inluding linked
List of External Advisors Page 6 of 7 publiations, Regine s work fouses on data quality aspets of integrating and linking ultural heritage information. Lars G. Svensson Lars G. Svensson works in the IT department of the German National Library as an advisor for knowledge networking. At the DNB he has worked with Classifiation issues (DDC), thesaurus mapping (German Subjet Headings to DDC) and in the last five years with Linked Data, helping the DNB to aquire a leading role in the linked data ommunity. His urrent researh fouses on the use of library information as linked data on the Semanti Web. Before joining the DNB in 2003, he worked as a software developer and in petrohemistry. He holds a MA and PhD in history and a MA in Library and Information Siene. Pedro Szekely Dr. Pedro Szekely is a Projet Leader at the Information Sienes Institute of the University of Southern California. His researh is in Semanti Web, information integration and human omputer interations, fousing on tools to failitate publiation of data in the Linked Data loud. Douglas Tudhope Douglas Tudhope is a Professor in the Faulty of Computing, Engineering and Siene at the University of South Wales and leads the Hypermedia Researh Unit. His main researh interests are in knowledge organization systems and servies, partiularly within ultural heritage. He has led several researh projets in this area, inluding the EPSRC funded FACET projet, whih investigated thesaurus-based query expansion with the AAT. Douglas was a member of the ISO 25964 thesaurus standard working group and is a member of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Servies (NKOS) network. Rihard Wallis Rihard Wallis, distinguished thought leader in Semanti Web and Linked Data tehniques and tehnologies, joined OCLC in 2012 as Tehnology Evangelist. He has been at the forefront of emerging Web and Semanti Web tehnologies in the wider information world for over 20 years. Rihard is Chair of the W3C Shema Bib Extend Community Group and ontributor to ativities furthering the adoption of Linked Data in the library and wider Web domains. An ative blogger and former host of the "Library 2.0 Gang" podast series, he has an international reputation for his insightful and entertaining keynote presentations at library, Web, and Semanti Web foused events. He is a pragmatist who believes in searhing for implementable solutions.
List of External Advisors Page 7 of 7 Dennis Wuthrih Dennis Wuthrih is CEO of Farallon Geographis, a geospatial web and mobile appliation development ompany in San Franiso. Dennis has been building deision support systems with geo-tehnology sine 1992 and remains ative in designing the tehnial omponents of Farallons appliations. He has played an instrumental role as tehnial team leader for enterprise appliations that rely on ontologies and thesauri as key elements in managing ultural heritage data in an interoperable manner. Jeff Young Jeff Young is a Software Arhitet at OCLC Researh. He reeived his B.S in omputer siene from the Ohio State University ollege of business and an M.L.I.S from Kent State University. He started his areer developing and publishing graphis and statistial appliations for miroomputers in the early 1980 s before joining OCLC as a software arhitet in 1987. Young transitioned to OCLC Researh in 1996 where he beame involved in a variety of library and Web standards efforts ulminating in his urrent speialization in Linked Data. Jeff was a oauthor of the W3C Library Linked Data Inubator Group Final Report and has been involved with the modeling and protool details of publishing VIAF, FAST, and WorldCat.org as Linked Data. Maria Lei Zeng Maria Zeng is a professor at Kent State University. She has been involved in the development and researh of knowledge organization systems (KOS) for over 20 years and ontributed to the related standards inluding NISO Z39.19 and ISO 25964 for strutured voabularies. She haired IFLA Working Group that developed the model of Funtional Requirements for Subjet Authority Data (FRSAD). She was an Invited Expert on the W3C Library Linked Data Inubator Group and has been a member of the International Terminology Working Group of the Getty Voabularies. Her reent researh projets inlude 1) SKOSifying various types of KOS, 2) produing LOD enabled bibliographial data from existing open aess repositories, 3) developing a metadata appliation profile for desribing and aessing KOS, and 4) onneting libraries, arhives and museums (LAM) data to the unfamiliar data and metadata resoures in the LOD universe through metadata alignment.