{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-29T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-04-12T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:45:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-487\" title=\"Owen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/owen.jpg\" alt=\"Owen at Mashed Library 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/owen.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/owen-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen at Mashed Library 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Owen Stephens has been working in the area of digital libraries for over 10 years, and has a wide range of experience in implementing and exploiting systems in libraries. He lead the first implementation of SFX in a UK University and recently launched the Spiral Digital Repository (using DSpace) at Imperial College London. He is currently manager for the JISC funded TELSTAR project at the Open University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the TELSTAR project, Owen was at Imperial College London where he was responsible for a wide range of &#8216;back office&#8217; activity covering Library IT and Technical Services.<\/p>\n<p>Owen been involved in a number of national projects in the UK, most recently as the Project Director of EThOSNet, a joint initiative between UK Universities and the British Library to provide a single point of access to electronic copies of theses awarded by UK Universities.<\/p>\n<p>Owen blogs here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\">http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas<\/a>, and you can follow his twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ostephens\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/ostephens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owen currently lives in Leamington Spa with his wife Damyanti Patel, son, Bryn Patel Stephens and daughter Freya Patel Stephens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Stephens has been working in the area of digital libraries for over 10 years, and has a wide range of experience in implementing and exploiting systems in libraries. He lead the first implementation of SFX in a UK University and recently launched the Spiral Digital Repository (using DSpace) at Imperial College London. He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}