University of Glamorgan

Douglas Tudhope, BSc, PhD

Reader, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan

Contact Details:
School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK.
Tel: (+1443) 482271
Fax: (+1443) 482715
Office: J229
Email: dstudhope@glam.ac.uk

• Biography
• Research
• Activities
• Teaching

Biography

I have a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. I completed my PhD in 1981 from the University of Wales (Swansea) on knowledge-based recognition of logic schematic diagrams. Before joining the University of Glamorgan in 1989, I worked as a programmer/analyst at the University of California, San Diego for the Faint Object Spectrograph project, one of the original instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. At Glamorgan, I lead the the Hypermedia Research Unit and am the Field Leader for Computer Science. More details can be found in my summary CV.

Research

My research interests are in the intersecting areas of information science, digital libraries and hypermedia and the emerging semantic web/grid. Within that, I have recently focused on Knowledge Organisation Systems and thesaurus-based retrieval. Recent publications are listed here. For related publications, see the Hypermedia Research Unit's Publications.

My main current research interest concerns how semantically indexed hypermedia systems can assist interactive and automatic retrieval. Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS), such as classifications, gazetteers, taxonomies and thesauri, provide controlled vocabularies which model the semantic structure of a domain for the purpose of facilitating information retrieval. A vast legacy of different types of KOS for different domains is available but their full potential remains untapped. This work builds on the EPSRC funded FACET project on thesaurus-based retrieval, which I directed in collaboration with the Science Museum. The project aimed to explore the potential of thesaurus facet structure in retrieval and query expansion. Research following up developments from FACET continues.

Other research interests include Geographical Hypermedia and ontology-based approaches to spatial information, when limited GIS co-ordinate data is available, as well as research on the social context of computer system development and Participatory Design techniques. I am particularly interested in the application of qualitative and interactionist social science perspectives to design and evaluation. An ESRC funded project investigated the use of prototyping in commercial information systems development during the period 1995-1998.

If you are interested in the possibility of PhD research you are welcome to contact me or look at current activities in the Hypermedia Research Unit.

Activities

I am the Editor of the journal The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM). Published by Taylor & Francis, the journal's homepage has instructions for authors and the latest call for papers. Since 2003 NRHM appears online. The journal started in 1989 as Hypermedia and we maintain a local NRHM website with Tables of Contents and Abstracts of back issues before online publication. NRHM appears twice a year and issues normally combine one or two topical themes with open submission papers that fall within the general scope of the journal. Authors are welcome to email with any questions.

I am on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Digital Iinformation (JoDI) and am currently Acting Theme Editor of the Information Discovery theme. I recently co-edited (with Traugott Koch) a special issue, JoDI 4(4), on ‘New applications of Knowledge Organisation Systems’ in January 2004. Authors are welcome to email with any questions.

I am a member of the NKOS network on Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems/Services and have co-organised three NKOS workshops at the European Conference on Digital Libraries: ECDL 2000 Workshop; ECDL 2003 Workshop; ECDL2004 Workshop.

I am a member of the Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Interoperability Cluster in the DELOS Network of Excellence. Recently I have been on the programme committees of ACM Hypertext 2003 and 2004, WWW Hypermedia Track 2003, ECDL 2003 and 2004, COLIS 2005.

Recent talks include:
DELOS WP5 Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries, Bath September 2004 ppt
DELOS WP5 Workshop, Sweden June 2004 ppt
JISC Terminology Workshop, London February 2004 ppt
Core Programme Schemas and Ontologies Workshop, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, May 2003 ppt
JCDL 2002 presentation ppt

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