Douglas Tudhope
Professor Douglas Tudhope, BSc, PhD
Leader Hypermedia Research Unit.
Contact Details
Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK.
Tel: (+1443) 483609
Fax: (+1443) 482715
Office: J229
Email: dstudhope (at) glam.ac.uk
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.
Research
My main research interests are in Knowledge Organization Systems and Services. I am interested in how semantically indexed hypermedia systems can assist interactive and automatic retrieval. KOS (eg classifications, gazetteers, taxonomies and thesauri) provide controlled vocabularies which model semantic structure for the purpose of facilitating information retrieval. A vast legacy of different types of KOS for different domains is available. Formally expressed they can offer a cost-effective lightweight semantics for a wide range of online services. In current research, we are exploring the potential of standard representation formats, such as SKOS and standard programmatic access protocols for interoperable services. Recent publications are listed here.
I was PI on the EPSRC funded FACET project and am currently PI on the AHRC funded STAR project. I am also collaborating in two JISC funded projects in the general areas of social tagging and terminology registries. I am the first author of a state of the art Review on Terminology Services and Technology commissioned by the JISC.
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. Several publications resulted from an ESRC funded project on the use of prototyping and Rapid Application Design in commercial information systems development.
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 covers hypermedia, hypertext, interactive multimedia, related digital library and web technologies and user studies. NRHM‘s homepage has instructions for authors and the latest call for papers. Since 2003 NRHM appears both print and online. Authors are welcome to email with any questions.
I co-edited (with Marianne Lykke Nielsen) a special NRHM issue in 2006 on Knowledge Organization Systems and Services The Introduction is freely available.
I co-edited (with Traugott Koch) a special issue, JoDI 4, on New applications of Knowledge Organisation Systems in 2004.
I am a member of the NKOS network on Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems/Services and have co-organised nine NKOS workshops or special sessions at various conferences. For details, see NKOS Workshops
I am workshop co-chair of the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at ECDL2009 – the 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2009, Corfu.
Recent presentations include
Two Keynotes at the The Challenge of the Electronic Environment to the Organization of Knowledge – Second International Seminar on Subject Access to Information, Helsinki, 2007
General overview when Opponent at PhD Viva, University of Lund, Sweden, 2007
Knowledge Organization System Services: brief review of NKOS activities and possibility of KOS registries, ISKO UK Seminar, UCL, London, 2007
A tentative typology of KOS: towards a KOS of KOS?, 5th European NKOS Workshop, European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL06), Alicante, 2006
Towards Terminology Services: reflections from the FACET Project, OCLC, Office of Research Distinguished Seminar Series. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio, 2006
Mapping Domain Thesauri to the CIDOC CRM for Semantic Interoperability of Data Archives Semantic Interoperability for e-Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Imperial College Internet Institute, London. 2006.
DELOS WP5 Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries, Bath 2004 ppt
JISC Terminology Workshop, London 2004
Joint UKOLN and UK e-Science Core Programme Schemas and Ontologies Workshop, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 2003
Teaching
I currently teach in the area of multimedia and hypermedia.
Current teaching responsibilities:
CS2S21 Multimedia Authoring and Development
CS3S07 Interactive Multimedia and the Emerging Web
CS4S19 Information architecture and Hypermedia Systems (MSc)
If you are a student on any of these modules, course material can be found on the School’s Blackboard learning environment.
