Barry Norton

Dr. Barry Norton is a Development Manager at the British Museum, responsible for the architecture and project management of ResearchSpace, a Linked Data platform for the arts and cultural heritage domain. Previously, as Solutions Architect for Ontotext, he provided consultancy on this and many other large-scale Linked Data and text analytics solutions, and training on semantic technologies for the cultural heritage, media and finance domains. He holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield. He worked on semantics-based national and European-funded research projects there and at the Open University, the University of Innsbruck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed publications in the area, including three book chapters.