Carole Goble
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.
Current interesting activities
- Editor-in-Chief, and manager of the editorial office, of The
Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World
Wide Web.
- Programme Chair for WWW2006 15th
International Conference on the World Wide Web, along with Mike
Dahlin.
- Co-organiser Schloss
Dagstuhl Seminar 05271: The Semantic Grid - Convergence of Technologies
03-07-2005 - 08-07-2005, along with York Sure and Carl Kesselman.
- Keynote: The Third
SIAM Conference on Computational Science
& Engineering, 12-15
February, 2005, Orlando, Florida. Middleware for
Bioinformaticians: Lessons from the myGrid
Project
- Keynote:
European Grid Conference
EGC2005, 14-16 Feb
2005, Amsterdam,
The
Netherlands (Semantic
Grid)
Services and Semantic (Grid Services)
- Keynote: K-CAP05 Third
International Conference on Knowledge Capture October 2-5,
2005, Banff, Canada
- Keynote: ISWC2005 4th
International Semantic Web Conference November 6-10, 2005, Galway,
Ireland
- Keynote: e-Science
2005, International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies
Dec 5-8, 2005, Melbourne, Australia
Current research projects
- myGrid: Supporting data
intensive
in silico experiments in bioinformatics. Producing a virtual laboratory
workbench
that will serve the life sciences community. EPSRC e-Science
Pilot Project. myGrid is now funded through a follow-on Platform Grant.
- myTea The myTea Best
Practice project is about taking the lessons learned from the Smart
Tea project in CombeChem
(about capturing previously paper-based information into
new digital forms) and applying that within the myGrid eScience
project's work to support Bioinformaticians.
- myIB EPSRC e-Science Best Practice project with Integrative Biology
to transfer the Taverna
workflow, provenance recording and LSID know-how from myGrid to
the Integrative Biology project.
- Rapid Prototyping: EPSRC e-Science Best Practice project rapid
development of Grid middleware, with RealityGrid and Integrative Biology
- Link-Up: EPSRC
e-science sisters networking project, networking myGrid with the BIRN project at San Diego
Supercomputing Centre, UC at Davis,
Interactive Knowledge Capture group in ISI at Uni Southern California and the
BioMOBY project
- ESNW: E-Science North West
regional
e-Science centre. One of the National e-Science Centres throughout
Great
Britain, ESNW co-ordinates research based projects between academic and
industrial collaborators. EPSRC e-Science Core programme centre
- PsyGrid: To provide
resources to clinicians, researchers and others interested in first
episode psychosis. e-Science project sponsored by the Medical Research
Council and the Department of Health
- ISPIDER:
An insilico proteome integrated data Grid. e-Science project sponsored
by the BBSRC Bioinformatics and E-Science programme
- COHSE: Conceptual
Open Hypermedia Support Environment. Sun Microsystems
- Knowledge Web:
Network of Excellence on the Semantic Web. EU FP6. Research Area
Manager with Rudi Studer.
- OntoGrid: Fundamental
investigations into the architecture of the Semantic Grid. EU FP6
STREP. Technical Director
- CO-ODE/HyOntUse: Collaborative Open Ontology Development Environment for OWL
ontologies
More information about my research interests can be found by looking
at research projects and publications.
Recent research projects
- GONG: Gene
Ontology
Next Generation. A BioOntology project.
- Geodise Engineering design
search and optimisation involving fluid dynamics. e-Science pilot
sponsored by the EPSRC.
- OntoWeb Thematic Network
on the Semantic Web. EU FP6.
- WonderWeb
Recent interesting
activities
- Keynote:
2nd Standards
and Ontologies for Functional Genomics, Oct
23-26 2004, Philadelphia, USA. The Montages and the
Capulets: a plague on both your houses.
- Keynote: 16th
International European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence ECAI2004, August 23-27 2004, Valencia,
Spain. The semantic Grid: building
bridges and busting myths.
- Invited Speaker:
1st UK e-Social Science All Hands meeting, July 5-7,
Manchester, UK Building the
Semantic Grid
- Keynote:
25th AMIA
2003 American Medical Informatics
Association Annual Symposium 2003, November 8-12 2003, Washington
DC, USA e-Science, or how I
stopped worrying and learned to love the Grid / the Semantic Web.
- Keynote:
ODBASE2003,
2nd International
Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications
of Semantics, November 3-7
2003, Catania,
Sicily (Italy) The Grid needs you!
Enlist now.