OR2010 – Keynote by David De Roure
David De Roure, University of Southampton
David De Roure from the University of Southampton opened the conference with a keynote on linked data and repositories, spotlighting the myExperiment initiative. myExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their work flows and experiment plans, share them with groups and find those of others. This means that work flows and other digital objects (called “Packs”) can be swapped, sorted and searched like photos and videos on the Web. But myExperiment is a lot more than a social network for scientists as it is designed around the real needs of scientists and with the aim of fostering the next generation of scientists to contribute more actively to a pool of research activities, share outcomes and build relationships along the way.
The team behind myExperiment has embraced linked data as a way of bringing additional value-add (albeit requiring some extra work), in that data published on the web can be interlinked to help researchers spot patterns and make important connections across their own and other disciplinary boundaries more easily.
The keynote is available at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1202407/Presentations/myExpOR10.ppt. More information on myExperiment can be found at: http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Main_Page
myExperiment brings together the universities of Manchester and Southampton through funding from: JISC Virtual Research Environments and Repositories programmes; EPSRC myGrid and e-Research South platform awards;
Microsoft Research Technical Computing Initiative and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Tags: De Roure, linked data, open repositories
