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About the Authors
Ivan Bedini is Team Leader for the Open Big Data collaborative project at Trento RISE. As team leader Ivan is responsible
of the development and maintenance of innovative solutions for the collection, integration and analysis of Open Big Data
linked with the Open Data portal of Trentino. Previously Ivan has been Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs Research
Ireland, where he has been active contributor of the Semantic Data Access (SDA), and for the BigData analytics project.
Prior to joining Bell Labs in 2010, he was researcher at Orange Labs France in the Enterprise Applications and the Trust &
Secure Transactions research departments. During ten years at Orange Labs he held different roles as developer, technical
expert and project manager, and specialized in the domains of Business Process Management, e-business, knowledge
engineering and Semantic Technologies. He has also four years of contribution to standardization bodies as member of the
UN/CEFACT Information Content Management Group and member of OASIS ebXML Registry/Repository Committee. He
received his PhD from the University of Versailles, France, in 2009. He is expert in Information Extraction, Data Integration,
Semantic Technologies, BigData technologies and distributed computing.
Feroz Farazi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Trento (UNITN) in Italy. Currently he is working in the
Open Data Project (http://www.provincia.tn.it/progetto_open_data/) funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. He
obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from UNITN in 2010. His research interests include Knowledge Management,
Ontologies, the Semantic Web and Data Integration. He has authored several publications including a book entitled
“Faceted Lightweight Ontologies: A Formalization and Some Experiments”. He has collaborated in the development of
GeoWordNet knowledge base at UNITN from 2009 to 2010. He has also collaborated in the Semantic Geo-Catalogue
project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. He served as an assistant professor from 2003 to 2006 in the
department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He also served as
a lecturer in the department of CSE at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh from 2001 to 2003.
David Leoni is a Software Engineer in the KnowDive research group at DISI department, University of Trento. He is the core
developer of OpenDataRise, an open source tool for data curation. With a background in privacy preserving data mining, his
interests currently span semantic web, teaching creative computing and visual programming languages.
Juan Pane is a Lecturer and researcher for Open Data at the National University of Asunción, Paraguay. He is also a
researcher of the Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA) and a consultant for the Democracy and Governance Program
for the Paraguayan Government funded by USAID and implemented by CEAMSO, Paraguay. He received his PhD in
Computer Science from the University of Trento in March 2012, where he later stayed as a post-doc research fellow (20122013). He led the development of Multilingual Open Source tools for Open Data Integration such as OpenDataRise and
CKAnalize for semi-automatically extracting semantics from open datasets for the Open Data Trentino (Italy) project
(dati.trentino.it). He contributed to the EU funded OpenKnowledge project in the area of semantic matching and to
the Insemtives project in the areas of semantic annotations models and semantic disambiguation in Folksonomies, all these
aimed at data integration. His current research and development activities focus in ICT based Innovations for Open Data
and Open Government initiatives by applying Semantic technologies and on designing automatic tools for Software Quality
Assurance. He has authored several scientific publications and journal articles.
Ivan Tankoyeu is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Trento. Currently he is working in the Open Data Project
funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Trento, Italy in 2013, having
awarded a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Belorussian State University in 2007. His main research interests include
data and knowledge management, event based media indexing, event mining and exploitation from spatio-temporal data,
context based analysis. He has authored peer-reviewed scientific publications in the top conferences of the Multimedia
research field (ACM MM/ICMR). He has served as the technical program committee on ACM MM Workshop HuEvent'14
and ACM ICMR'11. Previously he has worked on the EU FP7 Project CubRIK and EU FP7 Project Glocal.
Stefano Leucci is a Ph.D. Candidate at the ICT Doctoral School of the University of Trento, where he is member of the
KnowDive research group (http://disi.unitn.it/~knowdive). Due to his background in Law, he focuses his work on the interdisciplinary aspects of data management and low. He is currently a Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society of the
Polytechnic of Turin and he works as legal advisor in the Open and Big Data Project of the Autonomous Province of Trento
and TrentoRise.

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