Closing plenary

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David De Roure

David De Roure will be giving the closing plenary speech. He has travelled the world sharing his vision of the future of E-Science and we are delighted to have him apply his insights to the repository community.

Title:

How Repositories can avoid Failing like the Grid

Bio: David De Roure is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. A founding member of the School's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, he leads the e-Research activities and is Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre. His current research interest is the application of Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and workflow technologies to enable new research in multiple disciplines. He is a pioneer of the Semantic Grid and is closely involved in UK e-Science programme activities including the CombeChem and myGrid projects, OMII-UK and myExperiment. Within the Open Grid Forum he is e-Science Area Director and a steering group member. David has worked for many years with distributed information systems and distributed programming languages, and has been active in the Web and hypertext communities. He is a Scientific Advisory Council member of the Web Science Research Initiative and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Blurb:

What do IRs need to do to succeed? Support research, support researchers!