Dr. Edward Curry Research Scientist DERI Edward Curry investigates the impact and adoption trends of emerging technologies within industry. His specific focus for the last number of years has been how linked data technology and the web of data are changing the way business work and interact with information. Edward is an eBusiness Research Scientist at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), one of the leading international web science research organizations. His projects include studies of enterprise linked data, community-based data curation, semantic data analytics, and semantic search. Edward has worked extensively with industry and government advising on the adoption patterns, practicalities, and benefits of new technologies to enhance information architectures and flows within their organizations. His research has investigated the utilization of these advanced technologies within the pharmaceutical, oil & gas, financial, advertising, media, manufacturing, health care, ICT, and automotive industries. Edward has a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, has published journal and book articles and has spoken at international conferences and workshops. He is an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway.