OKScotland/introductions

Please say "Hello!" and introduce yourself to others at OKScotland by telling us:


 * Who you are?
 * What is it about Open Knowledge or the OKScotland event that sparked your interest?
 * Anything else you think might be useful or interesting to share...

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So let me kick things off...

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$nosborn2.png|Image|of Nicola Osborne|align="left"]] My name is Nicola Osborne, I am the Social Media Officer at EDINA and work across most of the projects and services based here including a new crowdsourcing project, AddressingHistory. My interest in social media, new technology and the semantic web means that I am very interested in thinking around how making data, knowledge and technology more open, more connected and more useful can lead to sharing, innovation and sustainable initiatives. I am very active on Twitter so during #OKScotland look out for comments from me: @suchprettyeyes.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$beach.png|Avatar|for Paola Dim|width=100]]My name is Paola DiM, I am a researcher at ISTCS and I am doing a Phd at Strathclyde. Open Knowledge, as defined in previous work, is one of my areas of interest.

My slides for short talk

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$jo_thumbnail.png|Image|of Jo Walsh|align="left"]] Hello i am Jo Walsh, i am a director of the Open Knowledge Foundation and work at the EDINA National Datacentre in Edinburgh.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$md_girona.jpg|Image|of Martin Donnelly|width=100]] Hallo - Martin Donnelly, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$robin-thumb.jpg|Image|of Robin|align="left"]] Hi, I'm Robin Rice, Data Librarian at EDINA and Data Library, Information Services, University of Edinburgh. I'm interested in Open Data and data curation and academic data support services. We also run the Edinburgh DataShare Dspace service for UoE researchers to openly share their datasets on the web. Jo asked me to help organise this event so I have been. Looking forward to hearing all the new ideas, it's obviously a hot topic and we've got a full house.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$katepic.jpg|Image|of Kate|width=100]] Hi, I'm Kate Byrne. I'm based in the Language Technology Group in Edinburgh University's School of Informatics. I'm interested in improving access to public data, partly through getting it out there, and partly through exploiting it in interesting ways. My work centres around text mining and semantic webbery.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$sm.jpg.jpg|Image|of Stuart|width=100]] Hola - Stuart Macdonald here - Associate Data Librarian and part of the OK Scotland organising team. Currently managing the JISC-funded AddressingHistory project and part of the locally-funded LAIRD (Linking Articles Into Research Data) project - a joint venture with the Data Library & Digital Library Division.

[[Media:okscotland$$introductions$dan_black_white.jpg|Image|of Daniel|width=75]] Hello, I'm Daniel Winterstein. I'm a director at Winterwell, a mathematician for hire, and a data-analyst most of the time. I'm interested in practical things we can do with data.