Christopher Gutteridge

Christopher Gutteridge (born 2 February 1976) 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]

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]