Paul Walk is Founder and Director of Antleaf, a digital consultancy, which delivers technical consultancy, management and development services, primarily to higher education and research. Some examples of current/recent activity include: acting as Managing Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); collaborating with the Coalition of Open Access Repositories (COAR) to provide a vision for the "Next Generation Repository", and developing a prototype "Next Generation Data Repository" for the National Institute of Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan). Prior to starting Antleaf, Paul worked for 25 years in higher education in the UK, most recently at EDINA, University of Edinburgh.