Petr Pridal is the CEO of Klokan Technologies GmbH, a Swiss company offering software development services and customization of open-source projects to culture heritage institutions. Within the last years Petr has stood behind many great software applications: Georeferencer, MapRank Search, IIPImage JPEG2000, MapTiler, WebGL Earth or Gdal2Tiles.

Recently he participated on the launch of a global federated geographical search engine indexing historical map collections worldwide, the OldMapsOnline.org.

Location

Switzerland

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Geography
• Computer Sciences
• Civil Engineering
• Information Science and Technology
• Library and Museum Studies
• Business
• Education

Affiliation

Klokan Technologies GmbH

Website

http://www.klokantech.com/