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overview |
<p dir="ltr">I graduated from the University of York with a degree in Biology and
Computer Science and a D. Phil. in ecology. I have maintained interdisciplinary research
interests ever since, in a field that has become known as biodiversity informatics.</p><p
dir="ltr">My teaching experience has been equally wide-ranging. I taught biological
computation at York, computing at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University
of Kent and at the Open University. Having chaired modules on virtual team-working
since 2003 and co-authored others, I have published extensively on collaboration in
virtual teams. I am currently chairing the development and a delivery of a module
on IT project and service management; the latter half of the module focussing on ITIL.
Also at the Open University I have contributed to courses on Java programming, introductory
computing, project management and the environment.</p> |
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research overview |
<p>My primary research interest is in biodiversity informatics, specifically in information
extraction from the legacy scientific literature. The research challenges that I am
investigating through these projects include:</p><ul><li><strong>Big data</strong>-
the source data is the biodiversity literature. The legacy print literature in this
domain has been estimated to run to 300 million pages.</li><li><strong>Noisy data</strong>-
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors introduced during the scanning process
means that up to two thirds of named entities (e.g. scientific names) are rendered
incorrectly; simple spell checking or look up against an authority is not sufficient
to address this problem, so the context of use is very important.</li><li><strong>Disambiguation</strong>-
taxonomic nomenclature calls for unique names only within Kingdoms, hence there is
a bacteria genus'<em>Bacillus</em>' and an insect genus'<em>Bacillus</em>'
that need to be distinguished.</li><li><strong>Domain specific terminology</strong>-
the literature makes extensive use of terse language, abbreviations and special characters
such as male ♂ and female ♀, and also mixes Latin formal descriptions with vernacular
text. </li></ul><h3>SysMIC</h3><p>I am involved in the BBSRC-funded SysMIC project
(Systems Training in Maths, Informatics and Computational Biology;<a href="http://www.sysmic.ac.uk"
rel="nofollow">http://www.sysmic.ac.uk</a>), which has developed and is presenting
distance learning courses in the fundamentals of systems biology. The project is a
consortium of UCL, Birkbeck, Edinburgh and the Open University.</p> |
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research overview |
<p dir="ltr">My primary research interest is in information extraction, particularly
information extraction from the legacy scientific literature. My research focus has
and remains to be biodiversity informatics so I have been investigating the problems
and challenges surrounding information extraction from the old biodiversity literature.</p><p
dir="ltr">In the past five years I have won four grants, worth approximately£590,000
in this research area. Two of these grants have been funded by JISC, the other two
by the EU, so I am experienced in working on nationally and on internationally funded
research projects.</p><p dir="ltr">The research challenges that are being investigated
by these projects include:</p><p dir="ltr"><em>Big data</em>- our source data is the
biodiversity literature. The legacy, print, literature in this domain has been estimated
to run to 300 million pages.</p><p dir="ltr"><em>Noisy data</em>- Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) errors introduced during the scanning process means that up to two
thirds of named entities (e.g. scientific names) are spelt incorrectly; simple spell
checking or look up against an authority is not sufficient to address this problem.
For example'Homo', the genus name for humans, can be mis-interpreted by an
OCR engine as the butterfly genus'Homa', so the context of use is very important.</p><p
dir="ltr"><em>Disambiguation</em>- taxonomic nomenclature calls for unique names only
within Kingdoms, hence there is a bacteria genus'Bacillus' and an insect genus'Bacillus'.</p><p
dir="ltr"><em>Domain specific terminology</em>- the domain makes extensive use of
terse language, abbreviations and special characters such as male ♂ and female ♀,
and mixes Latin formal descriptions with vernacular text.</p><p dir="ltr">The four
grants that David has won recently are:</p><p dir="ltr">A Community-driven Curation
Process for Taxonomic Databases<em>. JISC Digital Infrastructure Programme: Managing
Research Data</em>call, for£85,902.</p><p dir="ltr">A data infrastructure to
support agricultural scientific communities. Promoting data sharing and development
of trust in agricultural sciences.<em>EU Seventh Framework Programme , Capacities–
Research Infrastructures</em>. Principal investigator at the OU. The total budget
is€4 million, with the OU share being£222,745.</p><p dir="ltr">Virtual
Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy.<em>EU Seventh Framework Programme
, Capacities– Research Infrastructures</em>. Principal investigator at the OU
and Workpackage leader. The total budget is€4.75 million, with the OU share being£207,685.</p><p
dir="ltr">Automatic Biodiversity Literature Enhancement.<em>JISC Digitisation Programme:
Enhancing Digital Resources</em>call, for£73,261.</p> |
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teaching overview |
<p dir="ltr">I have taught a range of courses in computing and related subjects, from
biological computation at York, to service management at the Open University, via
computer graphics and other computing courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate
level at Kent.</p><p dir="ltr">At the OU I have chaired modules on virtual team-working
since 2003 and co-authored others. I am currently chairing the development and a delivery
of a module on IT project and service management; the latter half of the module focussing
on ITIL. Also at the Open University I have contributed to courses on Java programming,
introductory computing, project management and the environment.</p><h3 dir="ltr">Virtual
teamworking</h3><p dir="ltr">I have published extensively in the area of virtual teamworking,
building on one of my major teaching commitments at the OU. Issues I have investigated
include the identification and dissemination of good practice in encouraging effective
team formation and the maintenance of effective team dynamics. The principal motivation
for this work has been to improve the experience of students working in virtual teams.
I am also interested in the wider context of virtual team working in the workplace
and research context.</p><h3 dir="ltr">SysMIC</h3><p dir="ltr">I am a co-investigator
on the BBSRC-funded SysMIC project (<a href="http://www.sysmic.ac.uk/"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,255)">http://www.sysmic.ac.uk</span></a>) (Systems Training in Maths, Informatics
and Computational Biology). This project has developed and is delivering distance
learning courses in the fundamentals of systems biology to postgraduate students.
Led by University College London, the consortium includes Birkbeck College, the University
of Edinburgh and the Open University.</p> |
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