Christopher Gutteridge

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Christopher Gutteridge is a Systems, Information and Web programmer, part of the IT Innovation team in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. [1] He is known for being the lead developer for GNU EPrints [2] and for being an advocate for Open Data, [3] Linked Data [4] and the Open Web. [5]

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Notable achievements

Ted Nelson acknowledged Gutteridge's work, in 2001–2, creating an implementation of transquotation for Nelson's Xanadu project. [6]

In May 2005 Gutteridge won the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group award for his work on the Open Archive Software: GNU EPrints. [7] The UKUUG awards an annual prize to give particular recognition to the development of free and open-source software in the UK. [8]

In March 2011 Gutteridge launched data.southampton.ac.uk, [9] which provides open access to a number of non-confidential administrative datasets at the University of Southampton [10] and which won the 2012, Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year. [11]

In October 2017, Gutteridge was awarded the Jason Farradane Award for his outstanding contribution to the information profession [12]

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