#SRDD2018 Speakers

Full name

Donat Agosti

Affiliation

Founding President of Plazi GmbH

Biography

Donat Agosti is a biologist with a PhD degree from ETHZ. He had research positions at the Natural History Museum London, University of Zurich, American Museum of Natural History New York and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He published over 90 scientific publications, including a widely cited manual on monitoring biodiversity. Involved since 1996 in fostering open access to biodiversity data, developing data conversion workflows, building two open data repositories, the Biodiversity Literature Repository at Zenodo and TreatmentBank. He was instrumental in setting up the Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management. Since 2008 he is founding president of Plazi, a Swiss company promoting open access to scientific results. He is a member of the Swiss University Council SUK P-5 expert panel.

Session

From liberating imprisoned data in publications to publishing linked open data

Creating cross-linked deposits in the Zenodo repository of CERN - Room D7.1

Creating cross-linked deposits in the Zenodo repository of CERN - Room D7.1