Andrea Marchetti is a technologist in the Institute of Informatics and Telematic (IIT) of CNR Pisa. From 2009 to 2012 he leaded the Web Applications for the Future Internet Group and is responsible of the activity “Social and Semantic Web”.

His main research interest is concerning: web of data, digital humanities, data visualization and social media analysis. On these issues he produced several publications. He is participating to several FP7 European Projects: OpeNER, CAPER, Multilingual Web-LT. He cooperates into the activities of the W3C Italian Office, promoting the Linked Open Data technologies.