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Natanael Arndt
Natanael Arndt is working at the German National Library and is responsible for redesigning and developing the web archive of the library. He has worked in various projects with the aim to support people of various subjects and domains to gain a deeper understanding of their data with the help of semantic technologies. His research interests are collaborative and distributed knowledge management which involves the full Linked Data Lifecycle including: knowledge modeling, versioning and archiving, scalable data exploration, as well as knowledge extraction and integration. He is engaged in the application and development new technologies and is the author of several open-source tools. He earned his PhD from the Leipzig University with the doctoral thesis “Distributed Collaboration on Versioned Decentralized RDF Knowledge Bases”. Since 2009 he is member of the AKSW research group, a founding member of the AKSW e.V. and in the board of the association.
Tracy Arndt
Responsible for the Linked Data Service of the German National Library since 2021. My responsibilities encompass e.g. data modeling, software and ontology development, documentation and requirement management.
Kolja Bailly
I am a full stack developer from the OpenScienceLab at TIB Hannover.
My research/development fields are:
- Mediawiki
- Wikibase
- Semantic Mediawiki
- Semantic knowledge systems
- Information modeling
- AI / LLM / ML
Tobias BĂĽlte
Web and Metadata Librarian at hbz
Working on Metadata Transformation in context of lobid and OERSI
Super User and a little bit Development of Metafacture
also Metadata Standardization and Building Search Indexes for libraries.
Nicolas Chauvat
After studying engineering, Nicolas Chauvat worked in a research lab on artificial intelligence topics then started Logilab where he has been acting as CEO. His interests are the semantic web, programming languages, free software and horizontal organizational schemes.
Pascal Christoph
Pascal is employed at the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz) since 2008 as developer and administrator of Open Source software with the scope on LOD, especially lobid-resources and metafacture. Believes in 0 and 1 and a bit of magik.
Baptiste de Coulon
I am an archivist.
I have been working at the SAPA Foundation since 2021.
I am responsible to publish the collections online.
Abby Dover
Abby Dover (she/they) is the Linked Data Librarian at Northwestern University, a position they have held since late 2022. Prior to that, Abby was Head of Cataloging at Southern Methodist University, and has over 15 years of cataloging experience. She holds a Masters of Library Science from the University of North Texas. Abby took part in the creation of the Cataloging Code of Ethics (2021) and the Queer Metadata Collective’s Best Practices for Queer Metadata (2024). She currently serves as a member of the PCC SCT Task Group on Linked Data Training and is co-coordinator of the NACO/SACO Comics and Fiction Funnel.
Nicole Eichenberger
Nicole Eichenberger studied German and French Literature Studies in Fribourg (Switzerland) and Heidelberg and made her PhD in Medieval Studies. She worked in a Manuscript Cataloguing Project (University Library Leipzig). From 2016, she made her Traineeship (Referendariat) at Berlin State Library and held different positions there, including building up a library lab and organizing crowd sourcing events. Since 2024, she is a scientific collaborator at the library’s Manuscript Department.
Thomas Francart
TBD
Eduardo Febres
Eduardo Febres is developer of Mobile Open Resilient Electronic Libraries and coordinator of the Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation (ALAWiT.org) website. He works at the intersection of archives, race, and digital infrastructures, focusing on Afro-Latin American authors and the circulation of marginalized collections. His projects combine open science principles with practical tools for cultural heritage institutions, from community-driven metadata strategies to Zotero-based authority control workflows. Eduardo earned his PhD in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Notre Dame, where he researched Latin American print culture and decolonial archives. His initiatives highlight the potential of digital libraries to expand access, foster collaboration, and strengthen international archival networks.
Nuno Freire
Nuno Freire holds a PhD in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the University of Lisbon. His main domain of interest is cultural heritage, and works at the Europeana R&D, with interests in data analysis, data quality, data modelling, novel methods for data aggregation, and interoperability of information systems. He has been a member of the program committees of major international conferences in the area of digital libraries, such as TPDL (Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries) and JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries), and a reviewer for several international journals. He is currently a member of the Technical Review Committee of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).
Juho Inkinen
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Systems specialist at the National Library of Finland
Alexander Jandt
Software developer at the Berlin State Library since 2022. Working on the Handschriftenportal.
Background in mathematics. Experience as consultant and requirements engineer.
Martynas JuseviÄŤius
Martynas JuseviÄŤius is the lead developer of LinkedDataHub, an open-source low-code platform for Knowledge Graph applications.
With over 15 years of experience in Semantic Web and enterprise data solutions, he has delivered Knowledge Graph projects for organizations worldwide — from libraries and publishers to semiconductor and AI companies.
Martynas is now building a next-generation application that combines Knowledge Graphs and large language models — enabling agentic workflows that empower end-users to manage and consume Knowledge Graphs in entirely new ways.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, which now preserves 175+ unique petabytes of data - the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 1,250 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.
Argie Kasprzik
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I have been an organizer and co-chair of SWIB together with @acka47 since 2023. I am also an admin of this forum.
I have studied computational linguistics with a focus on formal semantics, computer science, and cognitive psychology, and I have a PhD in theoretical computer science. At ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics I am the lead for the automation of subject indexing (AutoSE).
My interests include approaches from both symbolic AI (ontologies, semantic technologies) and subsymbolic AI (machine learning) and the all-encompassing question how those two branches can be integrated in a useful way for the purposes of knowledge organization.
Thomas Kerboul
Thomas Kerboul is currently a metadata specialist at the Bibliothèque de Genève. After his studies in classics, he moved into information science. Since 2020, he has become a Wikidata contributor and enthusiast.
Péter Király
Péter Király is a cultural heritage/digital humanities software developer and researcher. As a member of Göttingen eResearch Alliance team he supports research data management activities. As a researcher his main interest is quality assessment and statistical analysis of cultural heritage metadata from a historian’s perspective. He actively contributes to different Open Source and Open Data projects, collaborate with research and cultural heritage organisations. He is an editor of the Code4Lib Journal.
John Kunze
John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. A former Berkeley Unix hacker, he created the ARK persistent identifier scheme, led publication of the BagIt, WARC, and Dublin Core standards, and wrote the formal recommendations that moved the first URL standard (which had stalled) across the finish line.
Mona Lehtinen
- Chief Information Specialist of Finto - Finnish Thesaurus and Ontology Service at the National Library of Finland
- Previously worked mainly in the Annif team with automated subject indexing
Magdalena Luniak
1999-2004: Sociology studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland), the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) and the Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) Majors: Methodology and Formal Models in sociology; Subject of Master thesis: Verification of S.M. Lipset’s Hypothesis of American Exceptionalism in Comparison with the Countries of the European Union (using Biplots).
2004-2009: Computer science studies at Technical University of Berlin Major: Software engineering
2004-2008: Student Assistant at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin
2007-2008: Software Engineering for Embedded Systems (Technical University Berlin)
2010-2019: Test engineer at Biotronik SE & Co (medical software development)
Since 2019: Scientific Collaborator at the Information Systems and Data Management department (Berlin State Library)
Ghulam Mustafa Majal
Ghulam Mustafa Majal is currently a Software Architect at ZBW Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft in Hamburg. He is enthusiastic about applied mathematics, engineering and software development.
Enno Meijers
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) and advisor at the research department at the KB | National Library of the Netherlands. For the NDE-program I am responsible for the development of the national digital heritage infrastructure positioned as the Data Space for Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands. Interoperability, (linked data) standards and distributed web technologies are core elements for this work. I have a background in Electrical Engineering and Business Informatics and I have been working on infrastructures for the cultural heritage and library domain for more than twenty five years.
Nishad Thalhath
Nishad Thalhath is a researcher in information science with expertise in semantic interoperability, metadata standards, and knowledge graphs. He serves as a Technical Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan, where he develops and manages metadata and integration systems for omics data as part of the Laboratory for Large-Scale Biomedical Data Technology.
He holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a PhD in Informatics. He also collaborates with the Metadata Laboratory at the University of Tsukuba’s School of Library, Information and Media Studies.
With nearly two decades of experience in information technology, he has worked as a developer, engineer, and consultant, contributing to IT and ITES projects across diverse domains.
Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts
Associate Professor Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts is Head of Cataloging at the University of Tennessee Libraries on the flagship campus in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A. Her prior positions were Head of Cataloging and Metadata, American University in Cairo, Egypt (2013-2016), Cataloging and Metadata and Multicultural Services Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2007-2013), Catalog Librarian, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota (2005-2007) and Assistant Professor in Library Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada (2002-2005). She received her Master in Library and Information Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently she serves as a councilor on the OCLC Leaders Council and as a member of OCLC Research Library Partner Program’s Metadata Managers Focus Group. She also acts as the coordinator of the Library of Congress’s Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) Tennessee Funnel. Her research interests are identity management, researcher identifiers, Semantic Web and linked open data models.
Tuomas Palonen
TBD
Joeli Pokkinen
TBD
Julien A. Raemy
Julien A. Raemy is an Information Specialist and Digital Humanities Practitioner interested in Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD). He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities and currently works at the Swiss Federal Archives as a Data Scientist and Co-Project Manager for LINDASnext - the next generation of the Federal Administration’s Linked Data Services.
He also holds an appointment as a Research Associate at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities, University of Bern. Furthermore, he is an active member of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community and he is part of the Linked Art Editorial Board.
Osma Suominen
TBD
Jakob VoĂź
Research and development at library service center VZG.
Shuai Wang
Shuai Wang is currently a software steward at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His PhD was about knowledge representation and knowledge graph refinement. He has been interested in A.I., data management, and software stewardship.