Declan Dunne is a senior member of the Marine ICT team which focuses on knowledge and information management including: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-GIS for data management and geospatial analysis, Internet technologies and services, data integration, syntactic and semantic interoperability, open standards (e.g. OGC and ISO standards), Linked Data, open source software, database design and management, data visualisation, metadata, and remote sensing. Declan has worked on a wide range of national and EU research projects as a web developer involving computer science and GIS expertise applied to marine and coastal environmental information systems. Declan graduated from University of Limerick with a BSc in Computer Systems (1.1 Honours) in 1998. After graduation, he worked as a software engineer with Oracle in Dublin for 3 years. Declan joined the MaREI centre at UCC in November 2002 as a full time ICT researcher and part–time student. Declan graduated from University College Cork with an MSc in Applied Science (Modelling and Numerical Computing) in 2006.