{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography at School of Electronics and Computer Science |url=http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg |work=University of Southampton |accessdate=29 January 2013 }}</ref> He is known for being the lead developer for GNU EPrints<ref>{{cite web |title=Development team for EPrints software |url=http://www.eprints.org/software/contributors/ |work=EPrints – Digital Repository Software |accessdate=30 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117221538/http://www.eprints.org/software/contributors/ |archive-date=17 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and for being an advocate for Open Data,<ref>{{cite web |title=Southampton Data Blog |url=http://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/ |work=University of Southampton |accessdate=31 January 2013 }}</ref> Linked Data<ref>{{cite web |title=Ventnor Fringe: The World's First Semantic-Web Powered Arts Festival! |url=http://onthewight.com/2011/08/17/ventnor-fringe-the-worlds-first-semantic-web-powered-arts-festival/ |work=On The Wight |date=17 August 2011 |accessdate=10 February 2013 }}</ref> and the Open Web.<ref>{{cite news |title=Please don't read this post about the Edinburgh Fringe site - or click the links |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/edinburgh-fringe-website-woes |work=Guardian Technology blog |author=Charles Arthur |accessdate=10 February 2013 |location=London |date=29 June 2010 }}</ref>

== Notable achievements == Ted Nelson acknowledged Gutteridge's work, in 2001–2, creating an implementation of transquotation for Nelson's Xanadu project.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Ted |title=POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF Ted Nelson |date=2010 |publisher=Mindful Press |location=Sausalito, CA |isbn=978-0-89347-004-3 |page=373 |edition=Bookstore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lCG2pwAACAAJ&q=Possiplex}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boffin wins prize for EPrints project |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/23/eprints_prize_ukuug/ |work=The Register |author=Lucy Sherriff |accessdate=29 January 2013 }}</ref> The UKUUG awards an annual prize to give particular recognition to the development of free and open-source software in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=2005 UKUUG Award Winner |url=http://www.ukuug.org/pr/Award-2005_winner.shtml |work=UKUUG - the UK's Open Systems User Group |accessdate=30 January 2013 }}</ref>

In March 2011 Gutteridge launched data.southampton.ac.uk,<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Southampton Open Data Service |url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/ |work=University of Southampton |accessdate=29 January 2013 }}</ref> which provides open access to a number of non-confidential administrative datasets at the University of Southampton<ref>{{cite web |title=Southampton Uni shows way to a truly open web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/southampton_linked_data_semantic_web/ |work=The Register |author=Kelly Fiveash |accessdate=29 January 2013 }}</ref> and which won the 2012, Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012 Times Higher Education Awards winners |url=http://www.the-awards.co.uk/the2012/winners |work=2012 Times Higher Education Awards |accessdate=29 January 2013 }}</ref>

In October 2017, Gutteridge was awarded the Jason Farradane Award for his outstanding contribution to the information profession<ref>{{cite web |title=UKeiG announces 2017 Jason Farradane Winner |url=https://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/news/ukeig-announces-2017-jason-farradane-winner |archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20171013212148/https://www.cilip.org.uk/uk%2Deinformation%2Dgroup/news/ukeig%2Dannounces%2D2017%2Djason%2Dfarradane%2Dwinner |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2017 |work=CILIP - the Library and Information Association |accessdate=11 October 2017 }}</ref>

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== External links == * [http://data.southampton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton Open Data Service]

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