Phil Barker
Partner at PJJK Limited
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Barker is a learning technology specialist and partner with 11+ years of focused experience improving higher education through semantic approaches to resource description, discovery, and management. He blends deep academic roots (PhD in Physics) and long-term research roles with entrepreneurial leadership at CETIS LLP and PJJK Limited, translating metadata standards—schema.org, LRMI, CTDL, Dublin Core—into practical systems for open educational resources. Known for evaluating technology in engineering and physical sciences, he helps institutions make evidence-based decisions about learning pathways and resource selection. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs technical metadata craftsmanship with a pragmatic commitment to openness and interoperability, often working at the intersection of standards, evaluation and real-world adoption.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Bristol
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
json-schema10
schema-org10
application-profile10
structured-data10
json-ld10
rdf10
schema10
python-markdown9
mapper9
specification8
markdown8
wordpress-plugin7
exchange7
python7
python-venv6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pesc-org/json-ld-transcript
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
Creating a machine readable, semantic PESC transcript
Contributions:70 PRs, 113 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 6 months
philbarker/CredRegParser
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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