Dr. Bénédicte Bucher is senior scientist at the french National Institute for Geographical and Forest Information and University Gustave Eiffel. Her research interest is the design of geographical information infrastructures where people can discover and using the most relevant geodata for their tasks, as well as share their own contributions with the communities. She develops approach at the interface between Spatial Data Infrastructures and Semantic Web, with a focus on the explicit representation of knowledge and on the value of engaging with human users with different backgrounds. She's also committed to promote knowledge exchange and transfer, in particular through her participation to the board of EuroSDR association, a non profit organisation gathering mapping and cadastral agencies in Europe with Universities, and her participation to University Gustave Eiffel pool of data ambassadors in support of open science policy.