Dr Emmanouel Garoufallou is a Full Professor, Head of Department, Director of MetaDATA Lab, and Director of Doctoral Studies of the Department of Library Science, Archives and Information Systems at the International Hellenic University, Greece. He has published extensively, with more than 120 publications and presentations. He has edited twelve books published by Springer and has delivered more than 12 invited speeches. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), published by Inderscience, and as Editor for the Data Technologies and Applications journal published by Emerald. He is also General Chair of the International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR) and a member of its Steering Committee. He serves as Strategic Development Advisor for the Culture, Archives and Libraries Sector of the ALTER EGO MEDIA Group. He has also served as a member of the General Council of Libraries of the Hellenic Ministry of Education and as Vice President of HEAL-Link. His research focuses on digital libraries, museums, galleries and archives; digital humanities; information systems and organizational content in digital environments; metadata, linked and open data; information literacy; data science; open access and open data. He holds a PhD in Digital Libraries from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Management from Northumbria University (UK).