Gustavo Candela was a member of the IT department at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes until 2023. His main areas of research interest are Information Retrieval, Semantic Web and Collections as Data. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante where he has been a Lecturer in Computer Science since 2023. As part of his work, he authored several publications and has been involved in the integration and quality of Linked Open Data in libraries. He has also worked with Collections as Data and Jupyter Notebooks using datasets provided by several GLAM institutions. He is involved in the International GLAM Labs Community aiming at reusing digital collections in inspiring and creative forms. He co-authored the Open a GLAM Lab book and the Spanish translation, that describes why and how to open a GLAM Lab.