Author: Fabien Gandon

Dean Allemang is a consultant specializing in Semantic Web deployments in a number of industries, including finance, media, government and pharmaceuticals. He works as a staff ontologist for the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council, working primarily on the Finance Industry Business Ontology (FIBO). He is a member of the advisory board of data.world, and formerly Chief Scientist at Top Quadrant, the first company in the US devoted to the Semantic Web.Hewas the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the President’s 300th Commencement Award at Ohio State University. He has studied and worked extensively throughout Europe and Australia, as a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK from1982 through to 1984, was twice winner of the Swiss Technology Prize (1992 and 1996), and served as Chief Scientist of Capsicum Pty Ltd, an early adopter of Semantic Web Technology in Australia. He has served as an invited expert on numerous international review boards, including a review of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute – the world’s largest Semantic Web research institute, and the Innovative Medicines Initiative, a collaboration between a consortium of pharmaceutical companies and the European Commission to set the roadmap for information management in the pharmaceutical industry for the near future.