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Trond Aalberg
https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/tronaa/
Professor in Information Science at the Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. I teach cataloguing and technology courses and my research is mainly in the area of conceptual modeling of bibliographic information. I have been involved in the development of the object oriented version of LRM (LRMoo) and currently I am a member of the IFLA BCM review group. I also serve as a member of the Norwegian cataloguing committee. I have a background in computer science and also have a professor position at the Department of Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where I currently teach Web Development and participate in educational research.
Tobias Bülte
Web and Metadata Librarian at hbz
- working on metadata transformation in context of lobid and OERSI
- super Uuer and a little bit development of Metafacture
- also metadata standardization and building search indexes for libraries
Chiara Carlucci
I am the Head of Library and Records Management Services at INAPP (National Institute for Public Policy Analysis, Italy). My work focuses on digital information management, Open Access, Linked Open Data, and the development of digital services for research organizations and public institutions. I have extensive experience in libraries, documentation systems, web technologies, and cultural heritage projects. I also teach Web Design and Development at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. My current interests include semantic technologies, knowledge organization, and innovative approaches to enhancing access to cultural and research information resources.
Ashley Caselli
https://ashleycaselli.github.io/
Bridget Day
Bridget Day (she/her) is an information services professional, with experience specializing in archives and digital asset management. Her information practice focuses on educational outreach and training, with an emphasis on equity in access to information. She has held roles in cultural institutions, such as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Ellis Island, as well as corporate environments, including Edwin Schlossberg, Inc. and Link9, an Omnicom company. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association. Day graduated with a MILS from Pratt Institute, and has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Mark Dingemanse
I’m a professor of AI, Language Diversity and Communication Technologies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. I lead the Futures of Language project. You can find me in the fediverse at https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark.
Patrick Hochstenbach
https://patrickhochstenbach.net/
Data integrator and postdoctoral research at Ghent University Library/IMEC-IDLab. My research interests include decentralized web, scholarly communication, semantics technologies, web reasoning and policy languages.
I was previously involved with creating the first OpenURL linking server named SFX, developing the open source library software LibreCat/Catmandu and contributing to specifications such as Event Notifications , COAR Notify and the Claims Network.
Juho Inkinen
Systems specialist at the National Library of Finland in the automatic cataloging team working with Annif and BIBRA.
Richard Knipel
Wikimedian-in-Residence at the City University of New York.
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
Unni Kohonen
Information Systems Specialist at the National Library of Finland in the Finto and Annif teams. Developing automated cataloging tools and Skosmos.
Natalie Milbrodt
https://www.nataliemilbrodt.nyc/
Natalie Milbrodt serves as University Archivist for the City University of New York (CUNY) where her team is responsible for implementing strategies and systems for increased collection discovery and use. Her responsibilities also include strategic planning and fundraising for the overall development of CUNY’s archival program. Before joining CUNY, Milbrodt served as the founding Director of the award-winning Queens Memory Project, a community-led archival program that has collected oral histories, photographs, and other local history records. She worked for a decade as the Metadata Services Coordinator for the Queens Public Library, responsible for the library’s cataloging and digitization activities for their over seven million collection items. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Working Group, as an organizer for the Community Archiving Happy Hour and NYC Neighborhood Oral History meetups, and on the advisory committee for the School of Library and Information Science at The University of Iowa. Her cultural heritage consulting clients include the Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) program, Urban Archive, and the Internet Archive.
Daniel Mietchen
TBD
Adrian Pohl
Since SWIB11, I have been an organizer of SWIB and co-chair of the programme committee (since SWIB23 together with Argie, before with Joachim). I am also an admin of this forum.
Professionally, I have been working at the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) in Cologne, Germany, since 2008. Currently, I am leading the Metadata Infrastructure team whose work focuses on open standards, tools and processes for the publication of structured data on the web. Often collaborating with others, our team works on a wide range of standards, services and tools, amongst others: lobid, OER Search Index (OERSI), SkoHub, Metafacture, AMB, Reconciliation Service API, NWBib.
Joeli Pokkinen
TBD
Benjamin Riesenberg
My name is Benjamin Riesenberg (they/them). I currently work as a Digital Collections Metadata Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries (United States), in which role I contribute to metadata design and implementation for the Oregon Digital cultural heritage archive, a collaborative project of Oregon State University Libraries and Press and the University of Oregon (UO) Libraries.
At present I also contribute to the Wikidata knowledge base (username Riesengrey) as facilitator of the UO Wikidata Working Group and a registry coordinator for the PCC Entity Management Cooperative program’s Wikidata community of practice.
Osma Suominen
TBD
Michele Stefani
I’m a librarian at the Università della Svizzera italiana (University of italian-speaking Switzerland, USI), where I coordinate the USI institutional zone within the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP). I’m also a postdoctoral researcher and data steward at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in a project on medieval italian literature. In 2025 I discussed my Ph.D. thesis in Italian and Historical Studies (my work was a digital catalogue of all the letters of italian poet Ugo Foscolo). My recent projects include Subject Navigator, a multilingual interface for exploring authority files and classification systems in our library’s Discovery tool.
Mary Ann Tan
Mary Ann Tan is a PhD student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. At FIZ Karlsruhe, her research builds scalable knowledge graph (KG) infrastructure for heterogeneous metadata collections such as the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB). Her prior work includes adapting DDB’s Europeana Data Model (EDM) data to FaBiO (FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology) and then to MOCHO, a multi-institutional mid-level ontology for cultural heritage objects, information extraction from historical bibliographic metadata, and entity disambiguation for mathematical definitions. Before her PhD, she built scalable systems in telecommunications billing and enterprise software. Her talk introduces GeMeA (German Memory Atlas), a KG over the DDB corpus that is queryable via SPARQL and accessible to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface.
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.
Jacquline Wormstädt
I work in Research Data Services at the University and State Library in Darmstadt, where I am part of the AIMS project, focusing on semantic metadata modeling. My background is in Digital Humanities and my current interests include semantic web technologies, knowledge graphs, user-friendly tools for working with structured metadata, RDM education, and new ways of accessing research data through digital methods.
Bartłomiej Włodarczyk
I am an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw.
My research focus in on metadata, knowledge organization, and artificial intelligence.
https://www.wdib.uw.edu.pl/pracownicy/wykladowcy/bartlomiej-wlodarczyk
Crystal Yragui
https://github.com/CECSpecialistI
I am an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle. I spent the first 12 years of my career as a cataloger and metadata librarian at the University of Washington Libraries. My pronouns are she/her.
Sofia Zapounidou
Dr. Sofia Zapounidou is a metadata specialist currently serving as the Head of Sector for A.2.002 - Metadata & Identifiers at the Publications Office of the European Union. She is the Chair of the IFLA Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group and a member of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. She has also served as a member of the LIBER Linked Open Data Working Group and the University of Washington MARC2RDA Project. Her research interests lie in semantic interoperability, bibliographic models, future-ready library data, data quality, linked data, Semantic Web, and exploring the intersection of AI with knowledge graphs.