Phil Archer
Director Web Solutions at GS1
Babergh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPhil Archer is a Web standards and data strategy leader with 11 years of experience driving interoperable eCommerce and product-data solutions, currently serving as Director Web Solutions at GS1. He applies deep W3C expertise—having led data activity and training there—to practical projects like dereferenceable persistent URIs for barcodes that improve supply chain efficiency and customer experience. Phil bridges standards, semantic web, and real-world implementation, preferring integrated web-native data over siloed exchanges. His background spans public sector eGov projects, startup-led NLP initiatives, and industry-facing roles that require translating complex standards into usable tooling. Based in Babergh, England, he is a pragmatic advocate for making linked data usable at scale across commerce ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (107)
schema10
identifier10
rdf10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
triplestore9
duplicate-detection9
beancount9
json-schema9
specification9
representations9
corda9
spatial9
tla9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gs1/DigitalLinkDocs
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Documentation for various GS1 Digital Link tools and libraries
Contributions:66 commits, 15 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 9 months
linkgs1
gs1/dalgiardino
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
A repository for the fictitious brand, used for GS1 Digital Link demos
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 7 months
ltsgameduplicate-detectionbrandlink
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