David is a research fellow and awardâwinning 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.