Speakers

Career
Dr. Rachinger began her career as an editor at Wiener Frauenverlag (Vienna Women Publishing House) and later became Head of Readers Services at Österreichisches Bibliothekswerk (Austrian Library's Forum). She joined the Ueberreuter Publishing House as Head of Programmes and became its Managing Director and General Manager.

Since June 2001, she has served as Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Austrian National Library.

Academic Achievement
Dr. Rachinger received a Ph.D. in Dramatics from the University of Vienna. Her major was in Drama, German Language and Literature.

Honours
Awarded 'Austrian of the Year 2010' for 'Cultural Management'
'Viennese Woman's Award' 2003
Member of the Senate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Supervisory Board of DIE ERSTE Oesterreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung
Vice-chairman of the Austrian Science Board 2004 to 2009.

is a cultural heritage technologist, and has worked internationally as an analyst, consultant and programmer at the Science Museum/NMSI, Museum of London, the Catalhoyuk Research Project, Museum Victoria, and in the commercial sector. Mia's doctoral research at the Open University focuses on crowdsourcing the digitisation, aggregation and geo-location of historical materials.

Mia has published and presented widely on her key areas of interest including: best practices for metadata games for crowdsourcing, the participatory web and the cultural heritage sector, public participation and access to digital heritage, human-computer interaction theories, and user experience design. She tweets at http://twitter.com/mia_out and blogs at http://openobjects.blogspot.com/.

New media pioneer Bill Thompson has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984 and currently spends his time thinking, writing and speaking about the digital world we are in the midst of building.

During the 1990's he was Internet Ambassador for PIPEX, the UK's first commercial ISP where he developed websites for Comic Relief, the Edinburgh Fringe and Anne Campbell MP, before moving to Guardian Newspapers as head of new media. He established the paper's first website in 1994 and was responsible for many online projects including Eurosoccer.com in 1996. He is currently working with the Archive Development group at the BBC on finding ways to make the BBC Archive more accessible.

Bill appears each week on Click (formerly 'Digital Planet') on BBC World Service radio writes a monthly column for Focus magazine and makes occasional contributions to other publications and programmes both on and off-line. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Journalism department at City University, a trustee of the Cambridge Film Trust and a member of the board of Writers' Centre Norwich.

is the Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation, responsible for Europeana.eu and Director of The European Library. She has many years experience in web publishing, which are now being applied to the libraries and the cultural heritage arenas. Her past experience includes the commercial publishing world as European Business Development Director of VNU New Media and scholarly publishing with Blackwell Publishing running their online journals service. Prior to publishing she had a variety of marketing and research careers in the information field. These ranged from being the Marketing and Event Director for Learned Information (Online Information) to managing her own research company, First Contact. All of which is very deviant from her first career as a Middle Eastern Map Researcher for the Ministry of Defense. Jill holds a Ph.D in Geography on Sixteenth Century Arabic and Turkish Sea-charts.

Max Kaiser is Head of the Research and Development Department at the Austrian National Library, Vienna. He has many years of experience in R&D in the areas of digital preservation, digitisation and digital libraries and has been involved in a large number of EU R&D projects. Currently he is coordinator of the EuropeanaConnect project which is building main components for Europeana. He is also member of the Management Board of 'Europeana V.1.0' and lead of the 'Innovation' work package of the upcoming 'Europeana V.2.0' project. He is Member of the Board of Directors of the Open Planets Foundation and acts as programme lead for 'Austrian Books Online' the Austrian National Library's large scale digitisation cooperation with Google. He has given presentations at a number of international conferences and workshops and teaches Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation.

is Deputy Head of the Unit 'eContent and Safer Internet' of the European Commission' Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. He coordinates Innovation (CIP Programme) and eContentplus Programme activities in the area of digital content. Prior to joining the Unit he has worked on EU research activities (RTD Framework Programme) on technology-enhanced learning where he has been responsible for coordinating research agendas, implementation of RTD Programmes and dissemination activities. Computer scientist by education with specific interest in real-life application of artificial intelligence methods, prior to joining the Commission he has been researcher, project manager and team leader serving in several research centres in Italy.

has 15 years of experience as an expert in GIS, database and spatial web applications in Europe, the Middle East and Norway within areas such as: digitization, presentation and publishing of cultural heritage establishment of regional, national and trans-national spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), spatial and societal planning; natural resource management; and; e-learning.

Bergheim's key areas of interest are Spatial, Semantic and Social Web technologies including: system architecture; data modelling; technical- and functional user requirements specifications; metadata and semantic interoperability; open, standard-based web services; spatial database technologies; decentralised information infrastructures and business process analysis.

Bergheim is active in a range of international information technology related policy, implementation and R&D activities. He has been a lecturer in data modelling, spatial databases, GIS and remote sensing at the Sogn og Fjordane University College and has been guest lecturing in GIS at the University of Tromsø. Bergheim was co-founder of Asplan Viak Internet in 2001 and managing director from 2002 - 2008.

is a full Professor teaching knowledge management and semantic knowledge architectures at the School of Library and Information Science of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2008. Other focal areas in teching and research are digital libraries, library automation as well as the use of information technology in the realm of sense and interpretation in the 'Digital Humanities'. He studied Ancient Greek, Philosophy and German Literature in Paris and Freiburg (Brsg.), where he took his PhD in German Literature in 1986. Afterwards, he was active as scientific librarian and directing the GBV network before working as a product manager from 1996 to 2000 for Pica B.V. in Leiden (NL) and Montpellier (F). From 2000 until 2007 he was deputy director of Hamburg University's computing centre. He has been heavily involved in the creation of Europeana from its beginnings, where he is responsible for semantic interoperability. He has been active since 1995 as an expert for the European Commission (DG INFSO and Research) and various national funding bodies (mostly DFG and ANR). Since 2008, Stefan Gradmann is president of the German Socitey of Information Science and Information Practice (DGI).

is head of the R&D Departmentthe at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and researcher at the Web and Media group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

He is mainly working on externally (FP7, ICT-PSP, CATCH) funded research projects that focus on providing online access to digital heritage. His PhD research at the VU University focuses on how active user engagement can help to establish a more open, smart and connected cultural heritage.

Oomen holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. He is member of the Webstroom expert group supported by the SURF Foundation and General Secretary of the international DIVERSE network on the use of streaming media in higher education. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council (London) and the RTL Nederland (Hilversum). He has given talks at leading conferences in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, published numerous articles in journals and is lecturer at the ICCROM training course on Sound and Image Collections Conservation.

(Delving B.V., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) has a computer linguistics background and specializes in multilingual information retrieval and user interaction design. In the recent past, he has worked for the Europeana as the technical lead from 2007 to 2010. He is co-founder of Delving B.V. where he is working on extending a branch of the Europeana Open Source code-base that aims to foster intra-European collaborations to create regional aggregators for Europeana.

Was born in Germany in 1975. He received the B-Eng in the Dept. of Electronic & Systems Engineering of Essex University, the M-Eng in the Dept. of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering in Sheffield University in UK, and the Ph.D. in the ECE Dept. of National Technical University of Athens in the field of knowledge technologies (extending OWL with fuzzy set operators). Since 2005, he is a senior researcher at the Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory (IVML) of NTUA carrying out research in the areas of knowledge representation, ontology engineering, reasoning and semantic search. He is active in the Europeana developments and many related projects (Athena, Videoactive, Euscreen, EuropeanaConnect, Europeana V01, Carare, Eclap).
He has published 15 journal papers and 60 conference papers.

Dr. Costis Dallas (http://entopia.org/costisdallas) holds MPhil and DPhil degrees in Classical archaeology from the University of Oxford. After many years in the museums and cultural informatics sector, in 1998 he joined the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University, Athens, where he is currently an assistant professor of cultural heritage management and advanced technologies. From 2008 to 2010 he taught in the Museum Studies Master's programme of the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where he retains the status of associate professor. He is also a research fellow of the Digital Curation Unit - IMIS, Athena Research Centre in Athens.

His research work is mainly in the field of digital heritage, where he presently works on developing a theoretical framework for the digital curation of 'thing cultures', integrating historical approaches to the representation and study of cultural objects with methodologies, infrastructures and environments intended for the management, preservation and use of digital information. He is involved in the CARARE - Connecting archaeology and architecture in Europeana project, working on the specification, design and implementation of a repository-based architecture for the management, enrichment and curation of site, building and archaeological feature-related metadata for Europeana harvesting and dissemination. He also worked recently in Preparing DARIAH: The digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, developing a model for representing scholarly information practice of humanities researchers, and he is currently investigating scholarly information requirements for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project. Since March 2011 he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Acropolis Museum.

joined the W3C staff after many years representing one its member organisations. Chair of the first Incubator Group, a lightweight mechanism for developing new ideas for the Web, he went on to chair the POWDER Working Group whose standards form part of the Semantic Web technology suite. Alongside this work he was an original member of the Mobile Web Best practices Working Group and was editor or acknowledged contributor to 6 of that group's publications.

As well as work at the W3C Phil's career has encompassed broadcasting, teaching, linked data publishing, copy writing, and, perhaps incongruously, countryside conservation. The common thread throughout has been a knack for communication, particularly communicating complex technical ideas to a more general audience. It was this background and his work in mobile that first lead him to join the W3C to lead the development of its online training services.

joined Europeana as Junior Data Ingestion Specialist in April 2011. She is responsible for the ingestion and quality control of new and updated data collections into the Europeana portal. From 2007 until 2010 Dimitra worked at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. As a technical employee, she was involved in the coordination and quality control of video encoding of Dutch television heritage for the project Images for the Future. Dimitra studied Media Studies with film as main subject at the University of Amsterdam. In 2010 she received her master degree for the program Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam as well. During her studies she had an internship at the film archive of the Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF) focussed on preservation, cataloguing, identification and database issues.

is currently Chair of Wikimedia UK and an administrator on the English Wikipedia. He has written hundreds of articles. In real life he trained as a mechanical engineer and systems analyst (he led a European Community funded project based on solving problems using meta data and information exchange in 1989). He took part in Wikimedia UK's collaboration with the British Museum last year and went on to lead a similar GLAM event at a small regional museum in Derby. As a result he co-developed QRpedia codes that provide multi-lingual access to Wikipedia via QR codes. Wikimedia UK is collaborating with leading GLAMs including the British Library, the National Archives and the National Railway Museum.

studied Computer Science at the Technical University in Vienna and is working as project-leader and developer in the field of digitial archives since 2002. As employee of NOA Audio Solutions, he gained hands-on experience with archives of major institutions like the Austrian Mediathek, RTV Slovenia, SRTC (Sudan), Voice of Vietnam, Memnon (Brussels), ORF, Fonoteca Nacional (Mexico) and many more. He is currently the main developer of 'DVA-Profession' - a video digitization solution for archival purposes, using Free Software and Open File Formats - in use by the Austrian Mediathek.

Since 2008 he is a team member of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and currently coordinating its activities in Austria.

has been involved with computers and software since 1973. His first open software contribution was in 1978 to a graphics package written in APL, and began giving presentations on software, networking, and security around 1885. Since 1996 when he first became involved with the Apache web server project (the Apache Group), he has been a devoted advocate and evangelist of open software. He has served on the boards of The Apache Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, written and contributed lots of code to various projects, authored books, and given dozens of presentations worldwide on the benefits and challenges of open collaboration and development. He has been employed by Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, IBM, and Red Hat.

is full professor of language technology at the University of Twente since 1992. She is also affiliated to the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where she is director of the Erasmus Studio. She studied Dutch language and literature at the university of Utrecht, did a PhD track in theoretical linguistics and started to work on language technology in 1985 at Philips Research where she worked on machine translation. Currently, her main research interest is in the field of multimedia indexing, text mining, semantic access, cross-language retrieval and the disclosure of cultural heritage collections (in particular spoken audio archives), and she coordinates a research programme in this area within the Human Media Interaction group. She is frequently involved in international programme committees, expert groups and review panels, and has initiated a number of EU-projects. In 2001-2003 she was a member of the EU/NSF 'spoken word archives' working group. She is principal investigator of the NWO-CATCH project CHoral (2006-2010) and coordinator of IST project PuppyIR (2009-2012). Since 2008 she is a member of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

has a mathematics and computer science background and has been a freelance trainer and software engineer specialising in Java technology for more than a decade in The Netherlands. He was part of the small technical team responsible for building the first Europeana prototype in 2008, and refining it during subsequent iterations until the summer of 2010, when he established Delving B.V. together with the other former core team members. Delving has taken the open source Europeana code base as a starting point and developed it further, with a mission to empower data providers and aggregators, and now expanding to empower individual users and small groups to contribute online to Cultural Heritage. His future ambition is to explore the potentials of crowd-sourcing and computer-aided curation as a hybrid process to improve metadata quality and usefulness.

was born in Lamia, Greece in 1976. He received the degree in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina, Greece in 1998. In 1999 he was accepted for a Ph.D. in the field of computer vision from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His thesis entitled '3D Features and Motion Estimation (Virtual Studios)' was completed in 2005. Since 2005, he is a senior researcher at the Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory (IVML) of NTUA, carrying out research in the areas of neural networks & machine learning, emotion analysis & human-computer interaction, knowledge technologies and digital archives. He has coordinated R&D activities for more than 15 Greek and EC projects and is currently involved in initiatives and projects concerning metadata modeling and aggregation, digital cultural heritage access and interoperability and, semantic web technologies (eContentplus and ICT-PSP - Europeana projects cluster).

is a project manager in the University of Oxford Learning Technologies Group. Currently Alun manages the University's involvement in the Europeana 1914-1918 project http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ which is running in Germany as 'Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten'. He is a qualified librarian with an untraditional career path which began in archives, later driving a mobile library, working in school, public and prison libraries, and managing a business research unit for a large global company. Since 2000 Alun has worked on University projects about Internet resource discovery, digital certificates, Shibboleth, eScience, Woruldhord (Anglo-Saxon), and most recently the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, (facilitating: podcasts for ITunes-U and YouTube; The Great War Archive community collection; and the archive in Second Life).

(1983) studied History and Conflict&Development at the University of Ghent (Belgium). She's specialized in oral history and public history. Since 2007 she works for The House of Alijn as a scientific researcher. This museum tells a timeless story about the culture of everyday life in the 20th century. Objects, photo's, home movies and sound-recordings show cultural and social practices, customs and rituals. Sarah Eloy puts the mission of the museum about commitment to and involvement with the public into practice, offline as well as online.

Robert HP Engels is one of the key players in dissemination and application of Semantic Web technologies in Norway. Robert brings about twenty-five years of experience within the field of knowledge acquisition and engineering. He is more than interested in everything that is related to making common sense and factual knowledge available for the digital, networked world. He earned a PhD (Dr.rer.pol) from University Karlsruhe (D) in 1999. Before that he received his MSc in knowledge representation and artificial intelligence from the University of Amsterdam (NL). Currently Robert is owner and CEO of ESIS Norge AS, an SMB focused on introducing and applying semantic technologies in real-world settings. He is also affiliated to the Western Norwegian Research Institute (WNRI) as an associated professor and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Education in Oslo, where he is responsible for the ICT solution driving the Oslo experience center for popular music (Popsenteret).

is an Interoperability Architect at The European Library. He holds a Msc. in Informatics and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon. In his entire career, he's been mainly involved in international projects in the area of digital libraries. His areas of interest include interoperability, information retrieval and data quality, particularly in its application to digital libraries and catalogues. He participated in several European projects including NEDLIB, TELproject, LEAF, MALVINE, DIGMAP, TELplus, Europeana Connect, ARROW, ARROW Plus and EuropeanaLibraries.

is a researcher and PhD student at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin. She works as a researcher in work package 2 (Multilingual Access to Content) in the eContentplus EuropeanaConnect project focusing on providing multilingual access to Europeana and in PROMISE, the FP7 European Network of Excellence on the experimental evaluation of multilingual and multimodal information access systems. Her research focuses on digital library evaluation, in particular on user behavior and requirements for multilingual access in digital libraries. Previously she was involved in the logCLEF multilingual log analysis evaluation initiative. She is organizer of the CHIC 2011 - Cultural Heritage in CLEF workshop dealing with the improvement of systematic and large-scale evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries and information access systems.

Email: maria.gaede@ibi.hu-berlin.de
Web page: http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/institut/mitarbA-Z/akadmitarb/gaede

studied Computer Science at Technische Universität München (University of Technology, Munich) and the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated from Technische Universität München with highest distinction and earned a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Markus M. Geipel joined the German National Library in 2011 and currently works on the culturegraph.org project as well as the German Digital Library (DDB).

is a full Professor teaching knowledge management and semantic knowledge architectures at the School of Library and Information Science of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2008. Other focal areas in teaching and research are digital libraries, library automation as well as the use of information technology in the realm of sense and interpretation in the 'Digital Humanities'. He studied Ancient Greek, Philosophy and German Literature in Paris and Freiburg (Brsg.), where he took his PhD in German Literature in 1986. Afterwards, he was active as scientific librarian and directing the GBV network before working as a product manager from 1996 to 2000 for Pica B.V. in Leiden (NL) and Montpellier (F). From 2000 until 2007 he was deputy director of Hamburg University's computing centre. He has been heavily involved in the creation of Europeana from its beginnings, where he is responsible for semantic interoperability. He has been active since 1995 as an expert for the European Commission (DG INFSO and Research) and various national funding bodies (mostly DFG and ANR). Since 2008, Stefan Gradmann is president of the German Socitey of Information Science and Information Practice (DGI).

a digital archaeologist turned project manager and product developer. His experience is in the development and management of museums, libraries, and archives systems with a focus on search and discovery, geographical information systems, content aggregation and community platforms. Currently the Product Developer for Europeana he has worked as project manager in private web development companies and at the National Heritage Board of Sweden.

He tweets at http://twitter.com/DavidHaskiya and blogs at http://kadmeianletters.wordpress.com/.

is research assistant with the Information School at The University of Sheffield, UK, currently working on the PATHS ( http://www.paths-project.eu) project. His research interests focus on computationally modelling human behaviour to improve man-machine communication. He also maintains an interest in information retrieval, spatial data, computational linguistics, interface design / usability, and automatic data-integration. He completed his masters at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, with a dissertation on automatic data-integration algorithms ( http://harmonisa.uni-klu.ac.at), before moving to Cardiff University, Wales for my PhD on the automatic interpretation and generation of spatial language ( http://gis.cs.cf.ac.uk/geoserv/). He then spent ten months working at The National Archives, the United Kingdom's national archive, developing systems to automatically geo-locate their historic data-sets (http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk). His current work at the Information School focuses on developing user interfaces for navigating large cultural heritage collections. A full list of his publications and research work can be found at http://work.room3b.eu.

is the lead architect of Erfgoedplus.be ('heritage-plus'), a Belgian project aimed at disclosing all types of heritage from the provinces of Limburg and Flemish Brabant and the city of Leuven to the public by applying semantic web technology. Erfgoedplus.be uses RDF/XML, OWL and SKOS to describe relationships to heritage types, concepts, objects, people, place and time. He is the technical architect and developer of the Dublin Core based metadata standard of the Dutch Government, OWMS, and of the Linked Data publication of the related vocabularies. Paul has been chairman of the Belgian-Luxembourgian SGML/XML User's Group for years and he is a fellow of the Hogenheuvelcollege KULeuven, research group Informatics (LIRIS).

is graduated from the University of Oldenburg, Germany in 2007 with a diploma in Information Technology (Major: E-Learning and Knowledge Management). He is currently working as associate researcher in the Intelligent User Interfaces Group at the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology in Oldenburg, where he is involved in several European and national projects. In EuropeanaConnect, he is task leader for the development of mobile access channels to Europeana.

Tobias main research interest centers on the field of Human Computer Interaction, with a focus on gesture based multi-touch devices, such as interactive tabletops and surfaces. In this area, he develops methods for the systematic development of user interfaces for such devices. He also investigates techniques and challenges in applying interactive surface computing to the field of information visualization and visual analytics systems. Further interests include Usability engineering, Agile Project Management and Agile Software Development.

Tobias is an active member of the international research community. He has been co-chairing the 1st academic Workshop on Social Interaction in Spatially Separated Environments (SISSI) in conjunction with ACM UbiComp 2010. He was program committee member of the 1st Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE '10) in conjunction with ACM NordiChi '10. Tobias was appointed reviewer for several international HCI conferences and workshops, including IEEE InfoVis '11, IEEE VAST '11, ACM CHI '11, ACM EICS '11, ACM MobileHCI '10, ACM ITS '10 and ACM NordiCHI '10.

is a researcher in the Web&Media group at the VU University Amsterdam. He is active in the European projects PrestoPRIME and Europeana Connect. He explores the combination of human and semantic computing within multimedia applications. Examples include tools to collect and moderate user-generated metadata for video, and the Amalgame tool for interactive alignment of controlled vocabularies. In 2010 he received his PhD at the centre Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam on interactive access to heterogeneous linked data. He won first prize in the Semantic Web challenge 2006 as a member of the MultimediaN E-Culture project and best research proposal at the International Semantic Web Conference in 2008.

Europeana & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Antoine works as scientific coordinator for Europeana and researcher in the Web and 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.
Read more at http://www.few.vu.nl/~aisaac.

is a PhD student at the Web-based Systems Group at Freie Universität Berlin. She is a Linked Data enthusiast, being involved in several Linked Data projects since 2007. Currently she is working on Silk (interlinking Linked Data sets), DBpedia (Wikipedia as Linked Data), and LODD (Linking Open Drug Data).

is technical coordinator for the CARARE project on behalf of MDR Partners. From 2004-2006 Kate was ICT Advisor at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council where she was project manager for the CALIMERA, MINERVA, BRICKS and MICHAEL projects. She joined MLA from English Heritage where she was responsible for promoting standards and systems for heritage information management to over 100 local authorities in the UK. During a 3-year secondment to the Archaeology Data Service Kate produced on-line learning resources, was editor to a series of best practice guidelines and was coordinator to the Historic Environment Information Resources Network. Since 2008 she has worked as a project manager with MDR Partners, as a specialist adviser and editor and as Digital Preservation Specialist at the UK's Parliamentary Archives. Kate is currently project manager for CARARE ( www.carare.eu), PATHS (www.paths-project.eu) and DigCurV ( www.digcurv-education.eu).

copyright policy advisor and co-director of Knowledgeland, an Amsterdam based think-tank focussed on innovation in the knowledge economy. Paul is an expert on open content and data licensing with a special focus on the cultural heritage organizations, the music industry and the creative industries. He is public project lead for Creative Commons in the Netherlands and serves as Collecting Societies Liaison for Creative Commons International.

Next to his work for Creative Commons he is currently coordinating the copyright related aspects of Images for the Future one of the biggest digitization projects for audio-visual heritage in Europe and he is one of the the architects of the licensing framework for Europeana, the European Union funded online aggregator of Europe's cultural heritage.

Paul is chairman of the board of iCommons, an organisation promoting open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. He also sits on the advisory board of the Virtual Platform, the sector institute of the Dutch eCulture sector.

Prior to joining Knowledgeland in 2007, Paul was head of the Public Research programme of the Amsterdam based media Lab Waag Society.

is IT architect for the Swedish National Heritage Board (SNHB) and the technical project leader for SOCH and the Swedish involvement in Carare (Europeana). He has an MSc in Computer Science and a Secondary School Teaching Degree, and long experience of system development and several other roles in the IT industry, mostly as consultant. As of September 2011 he is also acting CIO at SNHB.

is Director of the Digital Public Library of America Secretariat at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. As Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, she worked to catalyse and fund collaborative digital library initiatives. Previously, she founded the digital library program at the Boston Public Library and was responsible for its dedication to open principles. Her interests are in cultural heritage, collaboration and the promotion of all types of open knowledge. Before coming to libraries she studied literature and worked in the rare book trade, museums and the film business in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the UK.

She holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. from Middlebury College and an M.S.L.I.S. from Simmons College.

is Associate Professor of Computer Science and has been head of the Information and Knowledge Engineering research group, Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology since 1998. In April 2010 she established the awarded Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise 'CVAST - Center for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (Design, Interact & Explore)' funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth of the Republic of Austria. She has served on various program committees of international scientific conferences and was, for example, conference paper co-chair of the IEEE Conferences on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2010, 2011) at VisWeek. Her main research interests are Information Visualization and Visual Analytics for Time-Oriented Data and Process Management (in particular Focus&Context and Interaction techniques).

is Technical and Operations Director at Europeana Foundation.

Jan Molendijk was trained as a mathematician and computer scientist at Delft University of Technology. He then worked as a database consultant in ICT, in the banking and telecoms industries. After that he moved into the publishing world and worked on the production environment for Elsevier's ScienceDirect. Discovering there how much fun publishing is, he then worked in various publishing and production roles in STM, trade and legal publishing. His best job there was to find business models to bring digitized library and archive collections online for IDC, now a part of Brill. For the last five years he ran his own publishing firm in the field of management and HRM. He joined Europeana in March 2010, returning to the goal of bringing history into the future.

is a member of the Europeana Operation and Ingestion Team. She primarily works with the metadata provided by archives, museums and institution from all over Europe making sure they are consistent, rich and compliant with the Europeana metadata standard.

Francesca has a background in audiovisual archiving, video editing and image research. She is interested in digital access, new media and digital techniques, video and collaborative culture. She holds a Master Degree in Communication and a Master in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Images (University of Amsterdam).

Director, CIBER Research Ltd http://ciber-research.eu/index.html. Previously Director of the Department of Information Studies at University College London ( http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/) and Director of the UCL Centre for Publishing ( http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/) . Main research interests are: mapping information use and seeking behaviour in virtual spaces (deep log analysis); web behaviour; the digital consumer, the virtual scholar, Google Generation. Current research projects include: Charleston Observatory study of the impact of social networks on researchers; Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers; and Growing knowledge: evaluation of British Library Digital Research tools.

is currently the operational project manager of Austrian Books Online - the Public-Private Partnership between Google and the Austrian National Library in which 600.000 books are being digitized and made accessible online. She joined the Department of Research and Development in 2008 and was involved in the EU projects IMPACT, PLANETS and EuropeanaConnect, in the latter as project manager. She has many years of experience in digital information retrieval having been the academic director of postgraduate courses at the Centre for Image Science at Danube University Krems where she headed courses in iconography, media art history and digital collections management among others.

is a Software Developer at the Austrian National Library. Currently he is working in the Austrian Books Online project - the Public-Private Partnership between Google and the Austrian National Library in which 600.000 books are being digitized and made accessible online. He holds a master in business informatics from the Vienna University of Technology. He joined the Department of Research and Development in 2007 and was involved in the EU projects TELplus, PLANETS and EuropeanaConnect.

is a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science department of the VU University Amsterdam. His research interests are mainly in knowledge and ontology engineering, with a special interest for applications in the field of cultural heritage. He was one of the key developers of the CommonKADS methodology. He acts as chair of W3C groups for Semantic Web standards such as RDF, OWL, SKOS and RDFa. His research group is involved a wide range of national and international research projects. He is now project coordinator of the EU Integrated Project NoTube concerned with integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics and was previously Sceintific Director of the EU Network of Excellence 'Knowledge Web'.

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is a Scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). He holds a master in electrical engineering and a doctorate in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology, and has experience as a freelance multimedia and user interface designer. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked at the Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna as a researcher in the field of ubiquitous and multimedia computing, with a particular focus on technologies and user interfaces for geospatial information visualization on the Web and on mobile devices. Rainer was involved in several national and EU projects, published various papers in his area, and served as a programme committee member and reviewer for relevant scientific workshops and publications in the field. Presently, he is involved in the EU-funded project EuropeanaConnect, where his research focuses on issues of multimedia information management and semantic annotation.

was awarded a BSc in Chemistry from The University of Sheffield and the moved to The University of Nottingham where he received his PhD in Astrochemistry in 2006. Realising that software development was as interesting as pure research he then worked at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge as a senior software developer before becoming technical lead of the Zooniverse in Oxford. Since 2008 he has been responsible for leading the team developing software for the Zooniverse suite of citizen science projects. He is currently based out of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago where he leads a team of 8 developers and educators building new projects for the Zooniverse.

has been deputy head of the Research and Development Department (RDD) at the Göttingen State and University Library since 2009. He has a degree in Social Science (Georg-August-University Göttingen) with main focus on media and communication studies. 1998 to 2001 he worked as Scientific assistant at the 'Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Medienwissenschaft' (ZiM). Work field coordination, curriculum- development, public relations, course guidance service. Afterwards he coordinated the 'Notebook-University' project which emphases knowledge management via Internet. Ralf Stockmann has been head of the 'Göttinger Digitisation Centre' (GDZ) at the Göttingen State and University Library since January 2005.

was Director for Transparency and Digital Engagement for the United Kingdom Government. He led the work to open up government data and create 'data.gov.uk'; and after the 2010 Election he led the implementation of the new Government's commitments on Transparency. He continues to advise UK Ministers on the release of government data and other parts of their e-government programme as a member of the UK Public Sector Transparency Board, as well as advising other governments and contributing to the international development of the Open Data agenda.

Between 2004 and 2009 Andrew Stott was UK Government Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chair of the UK Government Chief Technology Officers Council. He joined the civil service in 1976 and subsequently worked in policy, finance, programme management roles as well as in both strategy and implementation roles in information technology. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge where he studied both Mathematics and Law.

is the founder and director of Demand Progress, a nonprofit political action group with nearly half a million members. He is the author of numerous articles on a variety of topics, especially the corrupting influence of big money on institutions including nonprofits, the media, politics, and public opinion. In conjunction with Shireen Barday, he downloaded and analyzed 441,170 law review articles to determine the source of their funding; the results were published in the Stanford Law Review. From 2010-11, he researched these topics as a Fellow at the Harvard Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption.

In 2007, he led the development of the nonprofit Open Library, an ambitious project to collect information about every book ever published. He also cofounded the online news site Reddit, where he released as free software the web framework he developed, web.py.

is head of unit of e-culture at Arts Council Norway. For many years he was director of the County Archive of Sogn og Fjordane. He has been project manager for a number of projects involving new technology and cultural institutions. He is an experienced practitioner in establishing harvesting infrastructures.