Organizing committee
Alison Callahan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on formalizing the representation and evaluation of scientific hypotheses using Semantic Web technologies. Alison holds a Masters of Information Studies from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. During her Masters degree, Alison worked as a graduate student library assistant at the University of Toronto Gerstein Science Information Center and as a researcher at the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.
Dr. Michel Dumontier is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has a strong interest in realizing the potential of interdisciplinary research from the areas of medicine, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, computational biology, computer science and engineering. Dr. Dumontier earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 2004 from the University of Toronto with advisor Christopher Hogue by developing computational scoring functions based on species-specific optimizations of sequence and structure optimizations across 150 completely sequenced organisms. During his post-doc at the Genome Canada funded Blueprint Initiative (2004-2005) he developed SMID-Genomes, an early drug discovery tool that allows the comparison of predicted small molecule binding profiles based on structural interactions. Since July 2005, Dr. Dumontier leads his research group at Carleton University towards the realizing the potential of personalized medicine by leveraging Semantic Web technologies for data integration and knowledge discovery, metabolic modeling for drug discovery, and cell simulation for systems biology research.
Jodi Schneider is a Ph.D. student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland. Her research interests include scientific and scholarly communication and the Social Semantic Web. Before joining DERI, Jodi founded an open access journal for library technologists (Code4Lib Journal), was community liaison for the research summary wiki AcaWiki, and worked in academic libraries. She holds an an M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and a M.A. in mathematics (University of Texas, Austin). At DERI, her current research is on argumentation on the Social Semantic Web, and she serves on W3C groups on Scientific Discourse in biosciences and Library Linked Data.
Dr. Lars Svensson is IT Manager at the German National Library, where his work focuses on information retrieval and library data integration using Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies. His group’s recent projects include releasing the German library’s PND authority files as linked data. Lars is a frequent speaker on the use of linked data and Semantic Web in libraries. He serves on the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group.
Dr. Michel Dumontier is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has a strong interest in realizing the potential of interdisciplinary research from the areas of medicine, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, computational biology, computer science and engineering. Dr. Dumontier earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 2004 from the University of Toronto with advisor Christopher Hogue by developing computational scoring functions based on species-specific optimizations of sequence and structure optimizations across 150 completely sequenced organisms. During his post-doc at the Genome Canada funded Blueprint Initiative (2004-2005) he developed SMID-Genomes, an early drug discovery tool that allows the comparison of predicted small molecule binding profiles based on structural interactions. Since July 2005, Dr. Dumontier leads his research group at Carleton University towards the realizing the potential of personalized medicine by leveraging Semantic Web technologies for data integration and knowledge discovery, metabolic modeling for drug discovery, and cell simulation for systems biology research.
Jodi Schneider is a Ph.D. student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland. Her research interests include scientific and scholarly communication and the Social Semantic Web. Before joining DERI, Jodi founded an open access journal for library technologists (Code4Lib Journal), was community liaison for the research summary wiki AcaWiki, and worked in academic libraries. She holds an an M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and a M.A. in mathematics (University of Texas, Austin). At DERI, her current research is on argumentation on the Social Semantic Web, and she serves on W3C groups on Scientific Discourse in biosciences and Library Linked Data.
Dr. Lars Svensson is IT Manager at the German National Library, where his work focuses on information retrieval and library data integration using Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies. His group’s recent projects include releasing the German library’s PND authority files as linked data. Lars is a frequent speaker on the use of linked data and Semantic Web in libraries. He serves on the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group.