University of Glamorgan

Cardiff • Pontypridd • Caerdydd

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Hypermedia Research Unit

Ceri Binding

Contact Details

Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1443 654533
Office: J225
Email: cbinding (at) glam.ac.uk

Biography

I have an early background in civil and structural engineering; however the advent of CAD and GIS systems in the late 1980’s quickly rendered my well honed (!) manual draughtsmanship skills all but redundant, and I pursued a new career path within Information Technology.

I graduated with a BSc(hons) in Computer Science from University of Glamorgan in 1997, undertaken part-time whilst working for Hyder IT. I initially joined the University of Glamorgan in 2000 to undertake development work on the FACET project, and implemented various standalone and web-based systems during the project. After a brief period with an external software development company working on e-commerce systems, I rejoined the University of Glamorgan in January 2007. I am currently working in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Advanced Technology. I am a member of the Hypermedia Research Unit working on the STAR project (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources).

Related research interests include Knowledge Organisation Systems, semantic web applications and interface design.

Publications

  • Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. (2006). “Query expansion via conceptual distance in thesaurus indexed collections”. Journal of Documentation, 62 (4), 509–533. Emerald.
  • Tudhope D., Binding C. (2005) “Towards Terminology Services: experiences with a pilot web service thesaurus browser”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, (DC 2005), 269–273. A slightly revised version selected for publication in ASIS&T Bulletin 32(5), 6–9, 2006. http://www.asist.org/Bulletin/Jun-06/tudhope_binding.html
  • Tudhope D., Binding C. (2004) “A Case Study of a Faceted Approach to Knowledge Organisation and Retrieval in the Cultural Heritage Sector”. Digicult Thematic Issue 6 – Resource Discovery Technologies for the Heritage Sector pp. 28–33 http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php [pdf 4.8MB hi-res, 1.8MB lo-res]
  • Binding C., Tudhope D. (2004) “Integrating Faceted Structure into the Search Process”. Proceedings 8th International Society of Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2004), Advances in Knowledge Organization 9, edited by Ia C. McIlwaine (Ergon Verlag), pp. 67–72
  • Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe, D. (2002) “Compound Descriptors in Context: A Matching Function for Classifications and Thesauri”. Proceedings 2nd Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002) (ACM Press), pp. 84–93
  • Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. (2002) “Representation and Retrieval in Faceted Systems”. Proceedings 7th International Society of Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2002), Advances in Knowledge Organization 8, edited by M. Lopez-Huertas (Ergon Verlag), pp. 191–197
  • Blocks D., Binding C., Cunliffe D., Tudhope D. (2002). “Evaluation of information seeking using thesauri in the context of museum collection systems”. Technical Report CS-02–1, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK.
  • Blocks D., Binding C., Cunliffe C., Tudhope D. (2002) “Qualitative evaluation of a thesaurus-based retrieval system” Proceedings 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), pp. 346–361

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