David De Roure
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David De Roure is a Professor of e-Research
at the University of Oxford
in South East England
and National Strategic Director for e-Social Science.
programme and is best known for the myExperiment
social web site for researchers, the Semantic Grid
initiative, and the UK's OMII-UK
(Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) for which he chaired the management board from 2007-10. In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC).
His personal research interests include e-Research
and Computational musicology
and his projects build on Semantic Web
, Web 2.0
and Scientific workflow system
technologies, characteristically focusing on the 'long tail' of researchers through adoption of user-centric methodologies. Prior to e-Science he worked in Distributed Computing
, Amorphous computing
, Ubiquitous computing
and Hypertext
.
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society
(FBCS) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Web Science Trust.
and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the University of Southampton
, where he also received his PhD in 1990 initially under the supervision of D.W. Barron
. He held a longstanding position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
from its formation as a department in 1986, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was Warden of South Stoneham House in the late 80s. He moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in July 2010.
E-research
The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of research...
at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
in South East England
South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex...
and National Strategic Director for e-Social Science.
Background and Research
David De Roure was closely involved in the UK e-ScienceE-Science
E-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
programme and is best known for the myExperiment
MyExperiment
myExperiment is a social web site for researchers sharing Research Objects such as Scientific Workflows. The Website was launched in November 2007 and contains a significant collection of scientific workflows for a variety of workflow systems, most notably Taverna, but also other tools such as...
social web site for researchers, the Semantic Grid
Semantic Grid
The Semantic Grid refers to an approach to Grid computing in which information, computing resources and services are described using the semantic data model. In this model the data and metadata are expressed through facts . Therefore it becomes directly understandable for humans...
initiative, and the UK's OMII-UK
OMII-UK
is an open-source organisation that empowers the UK research community by providing software for use in all disciplines of research. Their mission is to cultivate and sustain community software that is important to research....
(Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) for which he chaired the management board from 2007-10. In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council is one of the seven Research Councils in the United Kingdom. It receives most of its funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and provides funding and support for research and training work in social and economic issues, such as...
(ESRC).
His personal research interests include e-Research
E-research
The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of research...
and Computational musicology
Computational musicology
Computational musicology is defined as the study of music with computational modelling and simulation. It saw its beginning in the 1950s and originally did not utilize computers, but more of statistical and mathematical methods...
and his projects build on Semantic Web
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
, Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
and Scientific workflow system
Scientific workflow system
A Scientific Workflow Systems is a specialized form of a workflow management system designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or a workflow, in a scientific application...
technologies, characteristically focusing on the 'long tail' of researchers through adoption of user-centric methodologies. Prior to e-Science he worked in Distributed Computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
, Amorphous computing
Amorphous computing
Amorphous computing refers to computational systems that use very large numbers of identical, parallel processors each having limited computational ability and local interactions...
, Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone "using" ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems...
and Hypertext
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
.
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
(FBCS) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Web Science Trust.
Career
David Charles De Roure grew up in West SussexWest Sussex
West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
, where he also received his PhD in 1990 initially under the supervision of D.W. Barron
D.W. Barron
David William Barron [FBCS] is a British academic in Physics and Computer Science.- Radio Wave Propagation :Barron's work with H. Risbeth on radio wave propagation was pioneering in furthering the understanding of how radio waves were reflected at the ionospheric boundary.- Computer Science :David...
. He held a longstanding position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
The School of Electronics and Computer Science , generally abbreviated "ECS", at the University of Southampton was founded in 1946 by Professor Erich Zepler...
from its formation as a department in 1986, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was Warden of South Stoneham House in the late 80s. He moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in July 2010.