Paula Loreto Granados García is a Digital Humanities expert focusing on digital curation, data governance, and interoperability. She is the Digital and Operations Manager of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) at The British Museum, where she oversees the digital aspect of the Programme, ensuring best practice in rights and ethics management, and developing innovative approaches to digital curation.

Dr. Granados received her Ph.D. in archaeological research and Linked Open Data from the Open University in 2020. Her research focuses on the intersection between Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, by looking at how digital technologies can help individuals access, share, and build upon archaeological and ethnographic knowledge in different interdisciplinary streams: data and knowledge modelling via Linked Open Data technologies, the creation and mediation of knowledge in museums, and collaborative curation of cultural heritage initiatives through digital media and experimental technologies.

She currently holds a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is Digital Repository Advisor for the GCRF Network+ grant "Imagining Futures through Un/archived Pasts" at the University of Exeter, and she is a member of the Steering Committee of the Linked Pasts Symposium and the Advisory Board for the InDIGenius Languages and Digital Technology Initiative.
 

Ryan Horne is a Digital Research Specialist in GIS and Visualization at UCLA's Office of Advanced Research Computing. In this role, he collaborates with campus researchers at all levels of their digital scholarship, including conceptualization, implementation, and publication. 

Before joining UCLA, Dr. Horne was the Digital Humanities Research Facilitator in the Research Data Services department of the UCSB Library, the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library Data Coordinator in the Digital Library program at UCLA library, and held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Horne earned his PhD in Ancient History (2015) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill after previously working as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin. He is an expert in leveraging Linked Open Data for digital humanities research, with particular attention on geospatial and network analysis. Dr. Horne is a consultant for the Black Lunchtable oral history archive, serves as a managing editor for the Pleiades project, was an awardee of a NEH/Mellon grant for digital publication, has worked with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, the Ancient Itineraries Institute, and Pelagios Network, and served as the director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill.