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Professor Tony Hey, Director, UK e-Science
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e-Science and the Grid – e-Infrastructure and Digital Libraries'
The talk will introduce the concept of e-Science and briefly describe some of the main features of the £250M 5 year UK e-Science Programme. This review will include examples of e-Science applications and in contrast to many Grid projects elsewhere, the UK projects have an emphasis on data access and integration. Many projects are looking towards higher level Grid ‘Middleware Services’ and moving towards a genuine ‘Semantic Grid’. The importance of data curation for scientific will be emphasized as well as the impact of Open Access publication of scientific data. The talk will conclude with implications of this emerging ‘e-Infrastructure’ – ‘Cyberinfrastructure’ in the USA – for universities in general and libraries in particular.
Tony Hey is Professor of Computation at the University of Southampton and has been Head of the Department of Electronics and Computer Science and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Southampton. From March 31st 2001, he has been seconded to the EPSRC and DTI as Director of the UK’s Core e-Science Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), the British Computer Society (BCS), and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Professor Hey is European editor of the journal ‘Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience’ and is on the organising committee of many international conferences.
Professor Hey has worked in the field of parallel and distributed computing since the early 1980’s. He was instrumental in the development of the MPI message-passing standard and in the Genesis Distributed Memory Parallel Benchmark suite. In 1991, he founded the Southampton Parallel Applications Centre in 1991 that has played a leading technology transfer role in Europe and the UK in collaborative industrial projects. His personal research interests are concerned with performance engineering for Grid applications but he also retains an interest in experimental explorations of quantum computing and quantum information theory. As the Director of the UK e-Science Programme, Tony Hey is currently excited by the vision of the increasingly global scientific collaborations being enabled by the development of the next generation ‘Grid’ middleware. The successful development of the Grid will have profound implications for industry and he is much involved with industry in the move towards OpenSource/OpenStandard Grid software.
Tony Hey is also the author of two popular science books: 'The Quantum Universe' and 'Einstein's Mirror'. Most recently he edited the 'Feynman Lectures on Computation' for publication, and a companion volume entitled 'Feynman and Computation'.
Neil McLean, Director, IMS Australia
'The Ecology of Repository Services: A Cosmic View'
This presentation explores the growing interdependence between people, digital content and institutions through the development of networked repository services. In doing so, considerable attention is given to the emergent e-learning communities and their need for access to repository services. The presentation examines the links between different domains including e-learning, e-research, scholarly communications and curatorial networks and looks at the possibilities for developing common services infrastructure to support repository services. Finally, some thought is given to collaborative mechanisms required to optimise the global development of repository services.
Professor Neil McLean is currently Director IMS Australia and a member of the Board of Directors of the IMS Global Learning Consortium (the IMS Global Learning Consortium being a key international forum for the development of technical specifications relevant to the e-learning and training industry).
He is a principal advisor to the Australian Government, Department of Education Science and Training on technical standards for education and training and research information infrastructure.
As Director of IMS Australia, Neil coordinates a small team of technical experts engaged in the national and international education and training e-learning technical standards making processes.
Prior to becoming Director of IMS Australia he was Pro-Vice Chancellor for E-learning and Information Services at Macquarie University, Sydney, and he has a long history in the management of libraries, computing services and e-learning in both Australia and the UK. During 2003/4 a great deal of his time has been devoted to the interoperability challenges inherent in the relationships between online library, e-research and learning environments.
Lorcan Dempsey, VP Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC
'Libraries, digital libraries and digital library research'
Lorcan Dempsey's presentation will focus on the intersection between libraries and cognate organizations as institutions, operational digital libraries, and digital library research. He will consider each separately, noting salient characteristics, motivations and challenges. He will argue that each represents a different community of practice, with different values and motivations, and that the synergy between them is not as great as it might be.
Lorcan Dempsey is Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist, OCLC. Before moving to the US to take up this post he worked for the JISC, and before that at UKOLN at the University of Bath. OCLC Research is one of the largest units in the world exclusively devoted to library and information science research. It focuses on metadata and knowledge organization, content management, systems and service architectures, collection and user analysis, and interoperability.
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