Bernadette Hyland brings two decades of experience in commercial and federal government data management strategies, and has led several high-growth software organizations. She is committed to articulating the practical use of semantic technologies to make more informed decisions. She is a chapter author in two peer reviewed books focused on real world deployments of Linked Data, Linking Enterprise Data (D. Wood, ed, Springer, 2010) and Linking Government Data (D. Wood, ed, Springer, 2011). (3BCE)
Bernadette is co-chair of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group and a member of the W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group. Bernadette is co-founder of several profitable early stage Internet companies delivering enterprise products. Each of these companies were pioneers in the development of Free / Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects, including the Mulgara Semantic Store, Persistent URLs (PURLs) (http://purlz.org), Freemix and the Callimachus Project (http://callimachusproject.org). (3BCF)