Gustavo Candela joins DARIAH as new co-head of VCC on e-Infrastructure

Gustavo Candela is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Alicante. He is involved in the International GLAM Labs Community and has closely collaborated with institutions and initiatives including the National Library of Scotland, Europeana, LIBER, British Library, Columbia University, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, and DARIAH-EU.

Candela was recently appointed to join the Joint Research Committee of DARIAH and co-chair the Virtual Competency Centre on e-Infrastructure, alongside Tomasz Parkoła. Parkoła, Head of the Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and co-chair of the Virtual Competency Center ‘eInfrastructure’, was also elected as Vice-Chair of the Joint Research Committee and member of the Senior Management Team.

Relationship with DARIAH

Gustavo Candela has been working closely with DARIAH over the years through various European projects. More recently, he has been leading the Collections as Data work on behalf of DARIAH as part of the European data space for Cultural Heritage in collaboration with Europeana. As part of this work, Candela published the Collections as Data workflow in the SSH Open Marketplace and the related training materials in DARIAH-Campus. In relation to the DARIAH Working Groups, Candela is co-chair of the DHwiki Working Group, aiming at exploring the use of Wikidata and Wikibase in the Digital Humanities context.