Carole Goble

Carole
Contact details: telephone: +44 161 275 6195 fax: +44 161 275 6236 email: carole@cs.man.ac.uk
postal: Room 2.32, Kilburn Building, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

I am a Professor in the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. Along with Professor Norman Paton, she is the co-leader of the Information Management Group, founded in 1997. Previously I was a member of the Medical Informatics Group (MIG). 

My research interests are on the accessibility of information, particularly the use of terminological and ontological services for the representation and classification of metadata in a range of application domains. In particular, the ontologies are represented using Description Logics enabling the ontology-based applications to exploit reasoning in ontology creation, maintenance and deployment.  The IMG has taken a central role in the development of the OIL, DAML+OIL and OWL ontology languages for the Web.

My recent work has been focused on two major areas: the Semantic Web and e-Science/Grids. I am highly active in both communities and has projects in both.  I have been instrumental in an effort to link the two area by the application of Semantic Web. technologies to the Grid and e-Science, a fusion dubbed the Semantic Grid.  To this end I am co-chair of the Global Grid Forum Semantic Grid Research Group, along with David De Roure. I am married to Mr. Cottam, and live with him and two cats called Cyd and Doris. We are all fans of Blackburn Rovers. I am a fan of John Cusack.

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