Seminar by Dr Matthew West, Information Junction - Technical Challenges in...
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Description
The Web Science Institute is delighted to host a seminar by Dr Matthew West, Director of Information Junction. Matthew is also currently an advisor on Digital Built Britain for the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
Before this he worked for Shell for 30 years. From 1987 he worked on the computing/business interface with a particular interest in information management, information quality, master and reference data management, data modelling and ontology. He has been a key technical contributor to ISO 15926 – Lifecycle integration of process plant data, and ISO 18876 – Integration of Industrial Data for Exchange Access and Sharing, has participated in the development of ISO 8000 – Data and Information Quality, and also ISO 21838-1 – Top-Level Ontologies. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and is the author of “Developing High Quality Data Models”.
Abstract
Digital Built Britain is about delivering seamless, fit for purpose information to those who need it throughout the built and natural environment and those services that depend on them. One key challenge is ensuring that data is consistent, so that data from anywhere across the built and natural environment can be brought together and used immediately, without the need to translate. Another key challenge is that we will need to be able to implement Digital Built Britain incrementally. This means we will need to be able to “think big but act small”. Specifically, we need approaches that enable us to extend the scope of Digital Built Britain without having to rework what has already been done to ensure backwards compatibility, something that has been a problem for previous initiatives.
The talk will explore the issues this raises and approaches that have been taken in other industries to meet the requirements they give rise to.
A sandwich lunch will be provided from 1pm to 1.30pm in the coffee room on Level 4 of Building 32.
Organiser Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
Organiser of Seminar by Dr Matthew West, Information Junction - Technical Challenges in delivering a Digital Built Britain
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