This website is a reflection of Mariana Damova's present and past activities,
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Dr. Mariana Damova is a Knowledge Management Expert specializing
in ontology engineering and linked data management. She was instrumental in the succesful
winning and knowledge modelling of large data integration and management projects such as the Semantic Knowledge Base for
The National Archive of the United Kingdom and Research Space for the British Museum. Her work focuses on the design and development
of data integration infrastructures which allow efficient querying, access and navigation over linked data.
She has modelled industrial and enterprise data in a pilot project introducing semantic technologies to US industrial
settings. Mariana holds a PhD from the University of Stuttgart and teaches semantic technologies and multimedia
at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. She regularly reviews books and articles for ACM Reviews.com and has authored books
and scientific articles in linguistics and semantic technologies. She has
succesfully lead international interdisciplinary teams and projects carrying technological risks, driven and managed change
in engineering and operational contexts, and acquired the ability to leverage marketing requirements with engineering solutions
identifying added value to new knowledge intense technological solutions.