Staff
Asger works at the State and University Library, Denmark, which is one of two national libraries in Denmark. He holds a Master degree from the University of Aarhus, with a major in Physics and a minor in Computer Science. He has worked in the field of Digital Preservation and Repositories for three years and actively participated in the Planets Project. In additon, he is also a Fedora Commons Committer, and the lead developer on the fedora based repository system being built in the library. He also participated in the DPE project, where he co-authored the Platter toolkit.
Maurice works at the National Archives of the Netherlands (NANETH) as a digital preservation software specialist. Next to performing research on Digital Preservation practices and software, developing and maintaining the Digital Preservation research ecosystem at NANETH he is also co-author and maintainer of the OPF open source format identification tool FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects). Before this he worked as developer on the NANETH Digital Finding Aids project “DTNA”.
Andy has a background in computational physics and information systems architecture, including many years of experience designing algorithms for very large-scale data management and scientific computation. As a member of the Planets project, he helped define and develop a service-oriented architecture appropriate for digital preservation, and co-authored the Testbed software that builds upon it. He is now a Digital Preservation Architect and the British Library, working with the rest of the Digital Preservation Team and in collaboration with Open Planets Foundation to help define the library’s approach to digital preservation. He is also the chair of the technical coordination committee for the upcoming SCAPE project.
Andrew holds a master degree in economics and computer science and has a background as JavaEE software engineering. He joined AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology’s Safety and Security Department in 2006. As part of the companies research field ‘Next Generation Content Management Systems’ he has recently been working in the EU-funded project Planets: where he was closely involved in development and design of the Planets Software, and ASSETS: with his main focus on developing practical services for data normalisation as well as risk analysis and recommendation.
David is a research fellow and award‐winning software developer from the University of Southampton. He has 3 years of experience with various digital resource management projects around repositories and digital preservation. Dave is also a core contributor to the EPrints repository software which is where most of his research gets applied for practical purposes. Dave joins the OPF on the back of a highly successful integration of the PLATO tool into the digital preservation workflow within EPrints. This work was performed as part of the JISC Preserv2 and Keepit projects. His expertise in linked data is also helping guide many practical deployments of linked data and semantic services around digital preservation.
Carl currently works for the Open Planets Foundation, in particular with their constribution to the SCAPE project. Prior to that he worked for The British Library’s Digital Preservation Team on internal and external projects, including a brief spell as Technical Co-ordinator for the SCAPE project.
He spent three years as a technical lead on the Planets Project, developing the Interoperability Framework and Service Interface definitions. He also helped organise and run the Planets Service Developer’s Workshops.
Carl particularly enjoys Hackathon style events, and is a regular attendee at the OPF’s events, as well as those organised as part of the SPRUCE and AQuA projects.