The Group 2009 keynote speaker was Carole Goble.
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester, UK, where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997.
She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the myGrid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK. She is also the co-director of the e-Science North West regional centre.
Carole has an international reputation in the Semantic Web, e-Science and Grid communities and has led the application of Semantic Web technologies to both the Grid and e-Science, a fusion dubbed the Semantic Grid.
She has produced the first reference architecture for the Semantic Grid (S-OGSA) through the Ontogrid project and chairs the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Group, along with David De Roure.
She is married to Mr. Cottam, and lives with him and two cats called Cyd and Doris – all are all fans of Blackburn Rovers.
Dr. Goble is an expert in bioinformatics, knowledge management and ontology. More information on her many research projects can be found here.
Keynote Talk Abstract:
The Experiment, that is myExperiment
myExperiment (http://www.myexperiment.org) is a community repository and virtual research environment that supports the sharing and reuse of scientific workflows and (increasingly) other kinds of experiment plans and methods. For researchers it provides a social infrastructure that encourages sharing and a platform for conducting research, through familiar Facebook-like user interfaces. For developers it provides an open, extensible and participative environment built using Web 2.0 principles. The team is made up of software developers, social scientists and scientific informaticians from a range of disciplines.
Launched in November 2007, myExperiment.org has around 3500 visits a month and over 1600 signed up members who have publicly contributed 600+ workflows from 10 different workflow systems. It is now the primary source of publicly shared workflows.
myExperiment is an experiment – How do we incentivise scientists to share with people who could be their rivals? Do they share? When and why? Do they curate each others content? Do scientists tag? Do they reuse and under what conditions? Is reuse of complex methods possible? What special mechanisms do we need to incorporate to protect the intellectual capital of our scientists and support their contributions? What kind of information do people share? Does this Web 2.0 thing work for science? How do we work with scientists and social scientists to build myExperiment? What worked out, and what didn’t? And what general lessons can we learn about collaboration drawn from our experiences?
