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Research Programme DirectorI am responsible for specifying and delivering the Eduserv Research Programme of internal and external research and standards-making activities. My principle areas of interest are:
I blog at eFoundations and ArtsPlace SL. I maintain and develop Eduserv Island in Second Life. I am the creator of the Second Friends Facebook application. I joined Eduserv in December 2005. Prior to that I was Assistant Director (Distributed Systems and Services) at UKOLN, University of Bath where I had two main roles - firstly as advisor to the JISC about the technical architecture of the JISC Information Environment and secondly as Systems and Interoperability Manager for the JISC-funded Resource Discovery Network (RDN). I was heavily involved in specifying the technical standards that underpin collaborative activities between the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the RDN, based largely on the IEEE Learning Object Metadata standard and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. I have been active in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative for a number of years and am a member of the DC Advisory Board and the DC Usage Board as well as being current chair of the DC Architecture Working Group. I was also a member of the Open Archives Initiative technical committee. I previously worked in the University of Bath Computing Services (BUCS). I am the 'creator' of DC-dot, a Web based tool for generating, editing and reformatting Dublin Core metadata, DC-assist, a Dublin Core help utility, OpenResolver, an OpenURL resolver demonstrator and RSS-xpress, a tool for creating RSS feeds. |
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Committee MembershipI am a member of several UK and international committees:
I have previously been a member of the following:
I am also the Chair of Governors at Newbridge Primary School in Bath. Recent PresentationsSlides from all my recent presentations are available on Slideshare. Older Publications and PresentationsNotes about possible technical criteria for evaluating institutional repository (IR) software Content packaging and MPEG-21 DID To name: persistently: ay, there's the rub Resource Discovery Landscape The JISC Information Environment and Google Encoding DC in XHTML, XML and RDF Guidelines for assigning identifiers to metadata terms DCMI Abstract Model Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives Metasearching - an overview Web Services and the JISC IE Digital Library and MLE integration - where are we now and where do we want to be? Guidelines for encoding identifiers in Dublin Core and IEEE LOM metadata RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH Open for Business - Open Archives, OpenURL, RSS and the Dublin Core The JISC Information Environment and Collection description Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML The PURL-based Object Identifier (POI) Identifiers for learning objects - a discussion paper RDN/LTSN LOM application profile JISC IE Architecture - external trends and their potential impact Using simple Dublin Core to describe eprints JISC Information Environment Architecture Standards Framework Electronic arts and the Open Archives Initiative A brief overview of the OAI Protocol and its potential impact RDN Interoperability and Standards Framework 5 step guide to becoming a content provider in the JISC Information Environment Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) OpenResolver: a Simple OpenURL Resolver IMS Digital Repositories White Paper nof-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines The DNER Technical Architecture: scoping the information environment An OAI Approach to Sharing Subject Gateway Content Encoding OpenURLs in Dublin Core metadata RSLP Collection description Discussion paper - A UK e-Government Metadata Framework Metadata for the Web - RDF and the Dublin Core | |||||||||||||
