About Me

I’m a middle-aged nerd who lives in Bath. I love Bath.

I also love the web.

I’ve spent the last 10+ years of my career working on open data. Both as a freelancer and with the Open Data Institute.

Before that I spent about 10 years building data and content platforms to support the publication of academic research.

Over the last 20 years or so I’ve:

• spoken at a range of conferences
• written blogs, tutorials and research papers
• advised public and private sector organisations about how to collect, manage and publish open data
• contributed to the development of open standards
• helped launch EnergySparks and Kudos
• chaired a community-lead open data initiative here in Bath
• and raised a family

It’s been fun!

For more detail about my career then your best bet is to look at my LinkedIn profile.

You can reach me at leigh@ldodds.com or @ldodds