FAIR data pipeline
Talk, SSI Fellows Community Call March 2023, online
The Software Sustainability Institute Fellows Community meet regularly to share activities and opportunities, and discuss topics of interest.
Talks and presentations
You can find my talks in Slideshare and Zenodo.
See a map of all the places I've given a talk!
ExPaNDS - Towards FAIR and open photon and neutron data
Talk, IXS 2022, Oxford, UK
I was an invited speaker to the 12th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS 2022), which was held on Oxford, UK in August 2022.
The Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
Talk, FAIRsFAIR webinar, online
Peter Winstanley from Semantics Arts and I were invited to give a talk for the FAIRsFAIR webinar on “Using DCAT (Data Catalogue Vocabulary) to support metadata catalogue integration”. We gave an introduction on the DCAT vocabulary, described its evolution and gave an overview on the initial steps to implement it.
Towards FAIR research data management
Talk, CECAM MADICES Workshop, online
I was invited to present in the CECAM workshop on “Machine actionable data for chemical sciences: Bridging experiments, simulations, and machine learning for spectral data” (MADICES), which took place online from 7th to 9th February 2022.
The ICAT project: A modular ecosystem of tools for large-scale facilities data management
Talk, European XFEL Users' Meeting 2022, DESY Photon Science Users' Meeting 2022, online
I was invited to give a talk in the session “DAPHNE4NFDI: Science driven data management solutions for the user community”, one of the satellite meetings within the European XFEL Users’ Meeting 2022, DESY Photon Science Users Meeting 2022.
Research object citation and cataloguing
Talk, CoSeC@CIUK, Hybrid - Manchester, UK and online
Gemma Poulter and I were invited to talk in the CoSeC@CIUK session on 9th December 2021 about “Research object citation and cataloguing”. This is a session organised by the Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) in Computing Insight UK 2021 (CIUK2021) conference.
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source - Scientific Data Management
Talk, ExPaNDS WP3 Workshop on Gap and Issue Assessment, online
This meeting was part of the EU ExPaNDS project and aimed to go through the gap and issue assessment of each facility in detail and discuss about the direction and way forward to help facilities to overcome the difficulties they have with the integration of the metadata catalogues.
Good practices and guidelines for semantic interoperability
Talk, United Nations Data Forum, Online
I was invited to participate in the United Nations Data Forum 2021.
Platforms and Tools for Data Management in Large-Scale Facilities
Talk, UK Catalysis Hub Data Management Virtual Workshop, Online
Presentation delivered at the UK Catalysis Hub virtual workshop on data management.
Guidelines for FAIR vocabularies
Talk, FAIR convergence symposium, Online
I gave a talk on Guidelines for FAIR vocabularies in the FAIR Convergence Symposium organised by CODATA and GO-FAIR.
Data bridges for scientific & official data integration
Talk, United Nations Data Forum, Online
I was invited to participate in the United Nations Data Forum 2020.
Large-scale facilities experimental lifecycle & FAIRness
Talk, ExPaNDS, Online
I was invited to presented in the ExPaNDS project FAIR workshops.
Towards sustainable software for the muon science computational project
Talk, Muon Site Calculation Meeting, Online
As part of the Ada Lovelace Centre project “Development of a sustainable and user-friendly software architecture for the Muon Spectroscopy Computational Project”, I was part of the Muon Site Calculation Meeting on 4th September 2020.
SciGateway & DataGateway: the portals to facilities science and facilities data
Talk, University College, Oxford, London, UK
Our submission was accepted for a full talk at the Research London and South East of England workshop
Research Reproducibility
Talk, University College, Oxford, Oxford, UK
I was invited to give a talk on “Research Reproducibility” during the “Research Day” of the EPSRC- and MRC-funded Oxford-Nottingham Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Imaging (ONBI CDT).
Better software + better data = better research
Talk, CIFASIS, Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
In April 2019, I gave this talk in CIFASIS. CIFASIS, in Spanish Centro Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Información y de Sistemas, is a research institute of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) or the National Council for Science and Technology of Argentina.
Machine-Actionable Metadata Models: a toolbox including JSONLDSchema python module and JSONschema-documenter web application
Workshop Talk, RSLondonSouthEast19, London, UK
This talk combines two abstracts that we submitted to the Research Software London & SouthEast 2019 workshop that took place at the Royal Society in London, UK, on 7th February 2019.
Towards FAIR metadata standards
Workshop Talk, Inaugural Workshop Metadata for Machines (M4M), Leiden, Netherlands
I attended the first Metadata for Machines (M4M) workshop organised by the Research Data Alliance and the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office.
EBI Metagenomics Bioinfomatics Course
Training, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Within the Metagenomics Bioinformatics Course, Eamonn Maguire and I gave a tutorial on “Metagenomic Data Provenance and Management using the ISA infrastructure — overview, implementation patterns & software tools”.
What was the plan? A role for data standards, models and computational workflows in scholarly data publishing
Talk, ISMB Workshop: What Bioinformatics need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF, Boston, USA
This talk explores how principles derived from experimental design practice, data and computational models can greatly enhance data quality, data generation, data reporting, data publication and data review. For this, I presented a case study on reproducibility that was a collaboration between the GigaScience journal and the ISA-commons, Research Object and Nanopublication communities. You can read more about my presentation in Scott Edmund’s blog post for the GigaScience Journal and see my slides can be found below.
Bio-GraphIIn: a graph-based, integrative and semantically-enabled repository for life science experimental data
Talk, NETTAB Workshop 2013, Venice, Italy
I presented this talk at the NETTAB 2013 workshop whose topic was “Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories”.
The ISA infrastructure: from experimental planning to data publication and case studies in toxicology
Conference Talk, OpenTox Europe 2013, Mainz, Germany
The ISA infrastructure: from experimental planning to data publication
Embedding underpinning mechanisms for data reuse and reproducibility in bioscience - The ISA examplar behind the PDF
Conference Talk, Beyond the PDF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
I presented a talk within the Visions session at the Force11 Beyond the PDF 2 - 2013 conference.
The ISA infrastructure for the biosciences: from data curation at source to the linked data cloud
Conference Talk, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS), Boston, MA, USA
I presented this talk in the Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2013).
Community-standards for reproducible and reusable research
Talk, Drug Discovery 2012, Manchester, UK
I presented this talk in the Drug Discovery 2012 conference in Manchester, UK.