Nicholas Car is a data standards and Semantic Web specialist working in a small Australia tech company and also as an Adjunct at the ANU. He worked as a researcher at CSIRO for almost 15 year as well as a Data Architect at Geoscience Australia, managing some of their data holdings and aiming at multi-system interoperability.

He contributes to W3C and OGC standards and currently co-chairs the Australian Government Linked Data Working Group.