Andy Powell - Brief biography

Andy is Research Programme Director at Eduserv where he is responsible for specifying and delivering a programme of internal and external research and standards-making activities. His primary areas of interest include: metadata, the Semantic Web and Linked Data; repositories, research data, resource discovery and scholarly communication; identity and access management; learning, the social Web and 3-D virtual worlds.

Andy was the principle technical architect of the JISC Information Environment. He has been active in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative for a number of years. He is a member of the DC Advisory Board and was previously a member of the DC Usage Board and chair of the DC Architecture Working Group. Andy jointly authored the DCMI Abstract Model and several other Dublin Core technical specifications. More recently he jointly authored the DC Scholarly Works Application Profile for the JISC. He was also a member of the Open Archives Initiative technical committee.

Andy was previously an Assistant Director at UKOLN, University of Bath and before that he worked for the University of Bath Computing Services (BUCS).