Cyndy Chandler is co-manager of the NSF OCE funded Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) and an Information Systems Associate in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. During her more than 30 years at WHOI she has participated in 18 research cruises and is one of the three originating PIs for the Rolling Deck to Repository project funded by NSF to ensure proper stewardship of data collected aboard vessels in the US academic fleet. Her current research interests focus on the field of ocean informatics including development and use of controlled vocabularies, use of Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data.