Technical Researcher

I am responsible for undertaking ICT-related research and development within the Eduserv Foundation programme of internal research, engaging in standards making activities, and engaging with the Eduserv Foundation communities (relevant areas of academia and other public-sector bodies) in order to disseminate the outcomes of that research and to ensure that the Foundation is informed by work being undertaken elsewhere.

My recent work has been principally in the areas of metadata and technical interoperability. I am an active contributor to the work of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and am a member of the DCMI Usage Board and the DCMI Advisory Board. I was previously chair of the DCMI Collection Description Working Group.

I joined the Eduserv Foundation in May 2006, and prior to that, I worked as a Research Officer at UKOLN, University of Bath.

Lists of my recent publications and presentations are available.

I also write about my current work and related items of interest to me on the Foundation weblog, eFoundations.

I also have a separate (non-Eduserv-related!) weblog, Peregrinations, where I write about my experiences of Second Life.

Committee Membership

I am a member of the following UK or international committees or working groups:

• JISC Repositories, Preservation and Access Management Advisory Group (member) (2007 - )
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Usage Board (member) (2007 - )
• JISC Images DC Application Profile Working Group (member) (2007 - )
• Names project Expert Panel (member) (2007 - )
• Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) Technical Committee (member) (2006 - )
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Advisory Board (member) (2003 - )

I have previously been a member of the following:

• Program Committee for DC-2007: Application Profiles: Theory and Practice (member) (2007)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (2005-2007)
• JISC ePrints (Scholarly Works) DC Application Profile Working Group (member) (2006)
• UK eGovernment Metadata Technical Working Group (member) (2004-2006)
• Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group (chair) (2002-2006)
• JISC PALS Metadata and Interoperability Group (member) (2005-2006)
• Program Committee for DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice (member) (2005)
• NISO Metasearch Initiative Task Group 2 (member) (2004-2005)
• Program Committee for DC-2003: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practise: Metadata Research and Applications (2003)
• Conference Track Review Committee for DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities: Supporting Diversity and Convergence (2002)