Dr. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh is a faculty member at the University of North Texas (UNT), coordinator of Digital Curation activities and also teaching at the UNT College of Information. His research interests include open access, scholarly communication, digital curation and ensuring long-term access to cultural heritage resources. Daniel has been actively involved in various local, national, and international professional societies and served in various capacities, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the International Council On Knowledge Management (ICKM) their Executive Committees. He was the Co-chair of the International Conference on Knowledge Management Conference (ICKM). Daniel served as a Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020) at Addis Ababa University’s College of Natural Science, School of Information Science. Daniel can be reached at daniel.alemneh@unt.edu.