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.
[1] He is known for being the lead developer for GNU EPrints[2] and for being an advocate for Open Data,[3] Linked Data[4] and the Open Web.
[6] 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.
[7] The UKUUG awards an annual prize to give particular recognition to the development of free and open-source software in the UK.
[8] In March 2011 Gutteridge launched data.southampton.ac.uk,[9] which provides open access to a number of non-confidential administrative datasets at the University of Southampton[10] and which won the 2012, Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year.