Invited Speakers

Sören Auer

http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer/

Dr. Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig. Sören has made substantial contributions to social and semantic web technologies, knowledge engineering, usability, as well as databases and information systems. Sören is author of over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Sören is leading the European Union’s FP7-ICT flagship project LOD2 comprising 15 partners from 11 countries. He is co-founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as DBpedia, SlideWiki.org, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki. organiser and co-programme chair of renowned scientific conferences, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, EC, W3C and advisory board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Title and abstract to be submitted

Sarah Callaghan

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/home/SarahCallaghan.html

Dr Sarah Callaghan is a senior scientific researcher and project manager for the British Atmospheric Data Centre, at STFC Rutherford Appleton, UK. She currently project manages the NERC Data Citation and Publication project, which is a cross NERC Data Centre project which aims to develop the mechanisms for the citation and publication of datasets. She is also a co- chair of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citations, a member of the DataCite Working Group on Criteria for Datacentres, and an associate editor for the scientific journals Atmospheric Science Letters and Geoscience Data Journal. She is project manager for the PREPARDE project, which works with publishers and researchers to develop the processes and procedures needed for data publication. She has experience of both creating and managing large datasets, and so understands well the frustrations that scientists can experience as a result of dealing with data. She blogs about data citation and publication at http://citingbytes.blogspot.co.uk